City Manager Russ Blackburn quote: "The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the commission's prerogative. But the whole concept (of) our form of government is that the elected officials, who don't have to be experts, represent the public and make the policy decisions."

Groups feeding the homeless at the Downtown Plaza has had unintended consequences. There are so many...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

It could just be the alignment of the stars.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

We want the citizens of Gainesville to be comfortable in City Hall. But there may be individuals who...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

We're continuing to look at neighborhoods and areas that want urban services.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

We gave people an opportunity to choose and learn more about city services.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

We're open to others speaking, but we do want to make sure they have the full picture and they have ...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

There are times you just can't agree.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

Bill has done an excellent job in an interim capacity.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

This puts us in a more reactive position than we'd like to be.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN

We've worked hard with every department to minimize cuts to services. But there's no way around it. ...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

We're not being real strict on putting the signs 5 feet from the property line and we're taking pict...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

We've ordered small portable pumps to put out there temporarily to move the standing water to No Nam...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

A lot is going to be determined by the market. We?re hoping to be a catalyst.
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

It's affecting the morale of employees, hanging over their heads. We need to get it over with sooner...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

That kind of leadership is what I was looking for in a chief.
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

In an effort to be comprehensively responsive to your request our City Clerk had to research not onl...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule an...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

I have no objection to these interviews. Had I been given a courtesy notice by your office, though, ...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

We called some candidates to relocate signs last week and when they were not moved this past weekend...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

We'll do what we have to do to protect homes and roads. But, we would feel a lot better knowing we h...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

Once we get the ranking, we can go forward and develop a capital improvement plan to get the project...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

I would just hate to be here late on a Friday seeing the lakes rising or a storm headed our way and ...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON

If we can get people who can get from point A to point B more conveniently, it will just be better.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

Our hands are tied quite often.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

We have talked quite a bit about trying to do things more efficiently, and a charter would allow us ...
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

The city is part of the county. There are ways that we can partner together to help not just the ele...
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

If we all didn't agree to do it, it wasn't going to happen.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

Once the charter was developed, then there would be another election where citizens would decide if ...
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

Those would be two examples where the city, if we wanted to do something different to meet our local...
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

You approve things after staff has done the work. The Council doesn't go out there and do the work a...
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

People keep asking for things, and we don't have money, so we need to get money another way.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER

As we see many new projects being constructed in downtown, there is an increasing demand for metered...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

I think we were doing without because we were making ends meet so to speak. We have gotten to the po...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

I always viewed him as someone with good credibility, good technical background.
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

In the process of negotiations, we reached a point where we need to bring closure to something. In m...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

We absolutely do not want to delay those projects.
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY

We would like to have the event stay downtown if at all possible. It helps downtown merchants, and i...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

This is great news. We've made it very clear we want job-creating businesses there, and from what I ...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

This is a hard time for the fire department and, in fact, the city as a whole.
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

We have a lot less money to spend on fire and police and other direct services.
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

The council felt it was important because of the public vote that every legal means should be exhaus...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

When we made the initial decision on the election date we hadn't really thought about the extra cost...
CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS

We are proud of our 40 year history in Australia and our commitment in the 1960s to begin manufactur...
MARKETING MANAGER

Ensuring that everyone has great trails to ride is an essential part of our business. By honoring th...
MARKETING MANAGER

The club was created to thank our loyal clients for their support over the years and forge new relat...
MARKETING MANAGER

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.
MARKETING MANAGER

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entre...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with t...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ...
THOMAS BLACKBURN

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding c...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love a...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.
TYLER BLACKBURN

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry....
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but no...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of th...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to t...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissident...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyb...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Inserting the FCC into our states' economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and vi...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of il...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for market...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say t...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete tran...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this deb...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist g...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creati...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revoluti...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes c...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete str...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-rel...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your a...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfiel...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The po...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

I think raising the bar is a good idea. I think it's a good thing for kids, and long-term for Florid...
BRENDA BLACKBURN

We think our teachers are getting better and better on focusing in on what intervention a student ma...
BRENDA BLACKBURN

We think that we're getting better and better at providing those kids with academic intervention dur...
BRENDA BLACKBURN

I'm 99.99 percent sure it'll happen. That is not a rumor. Lots of other rumors, but we are going hav...
BRENDA BLACKBURN

We have lost some elements to the river. We just don't know what the water might do.
BOB BLACKBURN

It's more than just Oklahoma history. It's regional and national history.
BOB BLACKBURN

At this age, most of my friends have had a voice change. I probably would not be able to broadcast a...
BOB BLACKBURN

Wilt and Magic were not only nice to me when we did interviews, but both remembered my name. You don...
BOB BLACKBURN

I think we have a short window of opportunity to save parts of it. We have critical decisions to mak...
BOB BLACKBURN

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates th...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and...
GEORGE BLACKBURN

Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been sayi...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would ha...
TYLER BLACKBURN

If you or your child has swelling of the cheeks with fever or aches and pains then you need to see y...
CLAUDIA BLACKBURN

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our f...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competito...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early s...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I don't like cattiness, or people who are too judgmental of others, or other situations.
TYLER BLACKBURN

I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Miss...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to n...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to &#...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so o...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure the...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single we...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

[Blackburn thinks the main difference between his generation and the company's older employees lies ...
ROBERT BLACKBURN

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating ...
ROBERT BLACKBURN

Obesity is not gluttony,
GEORGE BLACKBURN

I'm just going to get some logs...
TONY BLACKBURN

You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

We're confident that we'll continue to grow globally and at a multiple to the market.
JESS BLACKBURN

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. Bu...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

It's definitely unusual. We heard about that from a lot of people. They congratulated us. Usually, y...
CHASE BLACKBURN

Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient glad...
THOMAS BLACKBURN

You're just tricking the body with drugs, ... It's shutting the appetite off.
GEORGE BLACKBURN

Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a na...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for yea...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions, and because of that,...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions pa...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

We encourage people to not share eating utensils and to wash their hands frequently.
CLAUDIA BLACKBURN

There's not much happening after midnight that a 15-year-old needs to be doing.
BRIDGETT BLACKBURN

Kids this age shouldn't be out unsupervised.
BRIDGETT BLACKBURN

Older kids are likely to assume younger ones have a sophistication that they really don't.
BRIDGETT BLACKBURN

Last year, Renee had no confidence. She was really concerned about making mistakes. I just tried to ...
BUD BLACKBURN

Some people go their whole lives without one.
BUD BLACKBURN

I was very pleased with the team. We have been working on our hitting, and they have begun to unders...
BUD BLACKBURN

It's a tremendous venue. I was telling Chandler there's nothing I can say or do that can prepare you...
DUANE BLACKBURN

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horro...
TYLER BLACKBURN

Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginali...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him a...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, agai...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work o...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Admi...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a lo...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how t...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Perm...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tis...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

Information is probably the most important thing we can do -- sharing information, communicating wit...
CLAUDIA BLACKBURN

It may not happen for years but we don't know, so our job as the health department is to be prepared...
CLAUDIA BLACKBURN

I've given myself a little confidence boost knowing that now I am able to perform in the NFL. Now I ...
CHASE BLACKBURN

I watched the film a couple of times and it was an average performance. I thought I was a little ten...
CHASE BLACKBURN

I went head-to-head with him most of the game, playing all the special teams. He gave me a little en...
CHASE BLACKBURN

one of the most tragic, costly and preventable public health problems facing this country today.
GEORGE BLACKBURN

You can't miss it with all the pictures we have hanging on the walls (at school) of our (34) state f...
DUANE BLACKBURN

He's wrestled in those situations so many times in tournaments, and that's something not a lot of pa...
DUANE BLACKBURN

We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a...
DUANE BLACKBURN

That's definitely something we hope works in our favor. But it's going to be a tough weekend. Five o...
DUANE BLACKBURN

And as for St. Edward's B team, a lot of Division I teams around here used to see them four or five ...
DUANE BLACKBURN

It's getting harder and harder to get teams to commit to a two-day tournament. Their kids -- especia...
DUANE BLACKBURN

It was often difficult to say no when people called. It got to the point that we had to pace ourselv...
INGRID BLACKBURN

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about anim...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

I believed these cuts were necessary several years ago, and I believe they're necessary now, ... For...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Across the board spending reductions would create significant savings while allowing agencies to det...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

They've been itching for a fight for a long time.
MARSHA BLACKBURN

Are the major league players pushing you to keep these penalties where they are, or is it you who is...
MARSHA BLACKBURN

I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We'd play chess. I later learn...
RICK BLACKBURN

The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY

Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY

Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY

A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY

Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY

It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY

You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY

I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY

The Money is in the Numbers: Achieve the Results You Want with Confidence
CITY CENTER

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my finger...
OWL CITY

There's no question that our first half was very, very impressive, ... I sit back and say, 'Wow, tha...
CITY HIGH

[This year they're calling it] That's Entertainment! Celebrating Career Transition for Dancers' 20th...
CITY CENTER

The transition period was utterly chaotic until we regained control and caused an unusually high lev...
CITY CENTER

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,
And tell me when it rains,
And I'll blend up that rainbow...
OWL CITY

There is nothing about the budget that Nancy would not be able to speak intelligently on, ... Mayor ...
CITY CENTER

We talked about 'being back' at the pep assembly and that is what we are now,
CITY HIGH

..bright eyes and subtle variations of blue...
OWL CITY

The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the commission's prerogative. But the whole concept (of) our form of government is that the elected officials, who don't have to be experts, represent the public and make the policy decisions.

City Manager Russ Blackburn

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