It takes funding away from cities and counties and brings it to Columbia. We think that's a disaster.

It's as much a disaster for the places set aside to conserve wildlife as for the cities and the people who have been impacted. This is what I would call catastrophic damage to our national wildlife refuges.

Historical data clearly indicate that if a credit card turns up in two cities on two continents on the same day, that's a useful pattern.

Most big cities have (cameras or partitions). They don't have it here. I lived in Tampa, and they didn't have it there, and one guy a year got killed.

San Antonio continues to have the lowest combined gas and electric bills among the nation's largest cities, and even with an adjustment, we should continue to be the low-cost leader.

I can say this disaster was not as a result of any corporate sin, ... I firmly believe that is not the way God operates today. If you look at the giving of the son (Jesus) and the sacrifice placed there he says, 'I died for sin, once and for all,' not just for all time, but for all people and all sins. Things are different post-Christ. After we see the giving, receiving and resurrection of Christ, there's nothing in the New Testament that leads me to believe this is punishment.