If we can get more of this town pedestrian-friendly, we are going to cut down on some of this traffic and gridlock we are all going to be facing in upcoming years.

This town means a lot to me. It's been good to my family and it's been good to me. We worked hard last year. We came in second. It's nice to feel a victory.

I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be used more effectively, especially by grassroots campaigns. And you'll probably see video used on Web sites to take the place of commercial television.

It was a tremendous way of communicating with the greatest number of people. It was the very first thing that I did as a candidate in the House of Delegates campaign. And we continually added to it.

We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to get a home - and I feel that home ownership is probably the single most important thing in keeping a family together. If you look at economic stability for a family, and being part of a community, home ownership is the number one thing that we should address.

The most important thing that the city can do is encourage growth that provides good wages for folks. I very much would like to see a living wage for people at Western State. This was addressed at the University of Virginia recently. They did it for the same reasons - to allow people to have a stake in their community.