In reality it's still a bleak, bad news story, but we're making progress.

The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in continuing to strengthen our intelligence community and to create even better coordinated working relationships and communications between the agencies,

It makes the big news. We heard about it everywhere. Every athlete here has heard about it. The reality is the river has been tested and it's all good to go,

The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.

The positive news is we appear to be making progress,

The news on the textiles unit does look like they are making progress on finding a solution. But the results for 2005 are a mixed message.