The program is all carrot and no stick. Local schools don't get millions but corporate interests do.

If Patrick Manning wants to run a campaign that takes the side of corporate interests who defrauded regular New Yorkers, that's fine with us. Any time Patrick Manning wants to come over to Eliot Spitzer's house in Columbia County for breakfast, he's more than welcome.

naming names, identifying marketers, corporate interests, major lobbying groups who are trying to go over the heads of parents.

It's not country anymore. It's not really the artists' fault; there's so much pressure (from corporate interests).

The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this case. It's that the department is not bringing meritorious cases on behalf of African-American and Native American voters.

The field of play has become seriously unleveled as a result of the current rules. Our member schools have complained and asked that we find a way of fixing this problem.