reach outside your boundaries. We want to keep a large percentage of the $2 billion in business from the Gulf Coast in this state.

Without a doubt we have been handed as extreme a challenge of rebuilding on the Gulf Coast as imaginable, ... But Mississippi is a great state with great people, and already we're welcoming golf, gaming and other tourists to the rest of the state. This will help the state and the state in turn will be better equipped to help the Gulf Coast and its residents affected by Katrina the more visitors we host. So the best thing we can and will do is to keep keeping on. We want visitors to come see why Mississippi is a special place and judge for themselves why Mississippi is considered a rising star of the golf-and-gaming world.

If the music business grew by a billion dollars, if the paperback book business grew by a billion dollars, if the box office grew by a billion dollars -- that would make headlines in every newspaper in the country.

Boundaries are only as real as the consequences they carry - Daniel Ray Waring Jr.

Howard Stern is a business. Sirius is paying, in essence, a license fee for what is a large and successful business.

Outside of Detroit -- and outside of the gulf region -- there are signs that the economy is still doing very well.