In the downturn I foresee, no market will be immune. But New York will weather the decline better than other markets.

It's starting to feel like New York City but with better weather. That's the thing that I'm really, really noticing. I'm not turned off by it but I know people that are.

There are also a number of other agencies involved - the New York DEC, the USDA Nature Resource Conservation Service and the USDA Farm Services Agency, the Soil and Water Conservation Districts and the Future Forests group out of DEC Region 8. Without the cooperation of all of these groups, an event such as this wouldn't be possible.

I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so extreme, ... I found myself asking, 'Wow, does this have any value? Does this merit a place on bookshelves?' And I thought, if he could unnerve me so completely, then maybe he'd be a worthwhile subject for drama. Maybe he'd be the kind of figure about whom I could write a parable about free speech that made liberals and conservatives equally nervous.

Temperatures in New York have been averaging about 8 degrees above normal so far this month. Temperatures will get closer to the norm later in the week before warming up for the weekend.

It will give Jamie a new start. Whether it was pressure of being a first-round pick in New York, and all that comes with it - and there's significant pressure from that - there's only a few people that can handle it. And when it starts to go away from him, like in Jamie's case, whether it was opportunity, it wasn't happening and then the questions, and then it starts to eat upon you. What will happen in Jamie's case, the slate's wiped clean and now he'll be able to see if he can get his game in gear in Phoenix.