Even with the high gas prices, people are still traveling on business and vacations.

For the past four years, we've been just hanging on some months. But lately, we've been experiencing increases in tourism all across the board and even exceeding our goals in some instances.

Colleges are basically first and foremost businesses. They're not in the business of holding people back because they don't have a certain set of skills. ... I think that now that the data is out there, I would hope colleges maybe offer more remedial classes that try to fill in those gaps.

It has been bringing in people we didn't see before, for both business and personal reasons.

This is a business. People get paid to take other people's garbage. If they take the garbage, they get a lot of money for it. If they don't want the garbage or the money, that's fine.

So many people don't even know that we're here. If we all get together we can form a strong business community and a stronger neighborhood.