I just got a check for my flood insurance. That's true with a lot of my neighbors. Now if we can find people to do the work, we can start coming back.

I think that's what people were waiting for. Now they can start getting things back to normal. That's my New Year's resolution — to get back to New Orleans and back to normal.

Many patients who have had strokes don't interact with neighbors or community the way they used to,

The people who are bus drivers and custodians live in the district. They're my friends and they're my neighbors. They live and work in the community and that's important to me. They support the community and the community should support them.

Crime has gone up 35 percent in the Five Towns alone. I have multiple neighbors who have experienced home invasions—been accosted getting out of their cars and assaulted in their homes. A man was attacked walking to synagogue on Sabbath morning just a few weeks ago. We've got a serious crime problem here.

It's so far below the standard we're putting in the middle school right now, it's sad. So Mark (Neighbors) and I said Friday, why don't we just tear it down.