It really did major things for the property-poor school districts in this commonwealth.

The evidence that I've seen suggests that there comes a point ... where the concentration of poor children in a school has a serious likelihood of impacting how well students will do in a school.

I think if everybody got everything mandated that they needed to have mandated in schools, we wouldn't have time to teach.

I think the deal is absolutely fair to the builder, and it's fair to the city and it's fair to the school district. Obviously, we'd like to have the full measure of taxes generated from all the buildings in the city of Covington, but to grow, you have to offer incentives.

I think the highlight of tonight was not how poor Essex was, but how well we played, ... We didn't give them a chance to put the ball anywhere. Our defense was dominating, the offense was absolutely consistent. You've got to give credit to the big guys up front. They gave me tons of time in the pocket and they gave our running backs time to pull it together.

Just refurbishing the old Aladdin, maybe add some parking garages, it would have been a poor use of the property. From a real-estate perspective, a mixed-use development, including gaming and retail, was necessary.