I can guarantee today that there are many fleet managers operating equipment that is already at 110 percent to 120 percent of such a plan's life. With the added expense of maintaining much older trucks and the advantage of newer cleaner engines, it may not be the best plan to postpone new equipment.

Today is the last day of the first half so I think window dressing by fund managers wanting to make their portfolios look good will keep the index above 16,000.

Today, fishery managers are continuing to ignore the law and allow unsustainable fishing for too many of our economically and ecologically important fish. It's time to listen to the science and put long-term sustainability ahead of short-term profits.

I'm one of the few county managers in this state who would not go to meetings and fuss about my sheriff. We always got along. Sometimes we had some pretty tough conversations about what he wanted in a budget, what he thought he should be doing and what I felt like as county manager I could put in the budget and make a recommendation on.

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof.