The population is rising, the housing demand is steady and the dispersion of jobs increase traffic on the roads.

The Japanese population is aging and has created a market niche with great potential for Hawaii. They have the income levels and the time to travel.

Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jobs in Western states, somewhat higher than the national average of 5.4 percent.

It became pretty clear to me the place to expand it was where the population is.

One of the things that happens for the gay population is threatening to out people at their jobs, threatening to out people in their communities. People have felt that there is no protection ... because it's via the Internet.

The longer that it goes on that we need to do repairs to maintain it — when we know that we're going to need a new structure — that's not the wisest use of public dollars.