No county should want to go it alone. Now is a great time to figure out how to start to make that partnership work.

We wanted to take some time and make sure we get it right.

At no time in the past has there been an opportunity to protect 74,000 acres for $350 million in one county.

If they'd done that last time, we never would have had a problem.

So he has had a head full of politics all this time, but surely it is time he relaxed a little. What happened last year? Didn't Roehm and Italy give him a lot of problems, but in spite of all that he found time for me.

He was driving a dump truck by the time he was 13.