It was not a good year for the average consumer, what with energy costs going up the way they did. The only way to make it up would be to work more jobs, or have more people in the household working.

Land costs are getting high, but are still cheap compared to California, or even Sun Valley, where an acre of land can cost $1 million. But it's still pushing housing prices up.

He is an outsider, he is not from the company, he is not from here. That is it on the surface, and now this (sale) just adds to it.

We do have to reduce our emissions but we also have to recognize climate change is happening, and we have to adapt as well.

What we found is that sea levels are rising and increasing with time.

When you buy electricity from out of state ... you are essentially taking dollars out of your pocket and sending it to another state.

It means there will be increased flooding of low-lying areas when there are storm surges. It means increased coastal erosion on sandy beaches. We're going to see increased flooding on island nations.

If we hadn't had construction doing what it was doing, things would have been slower, much slower, Maybe half of that 3.8 percent.

I know the employment numbers will be stronger, which will mean the gross state product will be higher.