The landscape has shifted and continually more Americans don't want to see the estate tax repealed.

For every dollar abated, the tax is shifted to someone else.

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Overall, maybe 40 African-Americans become licensed in any given year. The numbers of African-American women (who number 145 nationally) are bound to continue the most dramatic growth because women now represent half of the student body in architecture schools.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.