The pay was fine, but I was not able to work out a relocation and compensation package that met our needs at the time.

It's a raw, grungy, funny show. If this kind of show can't work here, it can't work anywhere.

It really helps us get on the radar screen of the professional people who work with companies to place them in other areas of the country. Now, Rochester ranks 35 in the entire country. We are very pleased about that.

Enlightenment begins with disillusionment, is fueled by the perceived benefit of change and is made permanent by the creation and protection of a new order in place of the old.

The position, frankly, never matured to what I expected it to be.

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight – we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.