Our population growth makes everything harder. We've gone down the dumb-growth path for many years. ... Maybe as we see all this bearing down on us, we'll take the smart-growth path.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

The Dove spot and the spots targeted to the Hispanic population show that advertisers are looking more at the different segments in the audience.

Our population continues to grow, so we have had to add positions to handle that growth,

Our population growth is still showing 2 percent, so our demand is going to be better than most places. There are no labor problems, such as mills closing, so our economic base is stable.

I think we have all known that we were having growth in the Hispanic population. We have known it through the school population. I didn't realize it was that high.