He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

No one ever had a finger on the pulse of sports fans in this town the way Hal did. That was his greatest strength.

Hal's Sunday column was the best-read piece of journalism in Northeast Ohio.

We are deadly serious about what we are doing.

We're doing reform differently than the rest.

It's a first step to bringing our system into the 21st century.