The public owns these records. It's our right to have them. They don't get to withhold them just because they don't agree with us.

You're wrapping up your 2005 tax return and are in the mind-set to think about what you did right this year and what you did wrong.

Basically what they say is they want to give us a printout from the (electronic) file. They don't want to give us the file itself. It doesn't enable us to get to the bottom of what we need to know.

They are way over the time that is allowed under the regulation to respond to a public records request.

I would just tell him how proud I am and what a true honor it was to be his mother.

Overall there are multiple errors in the presentation of the votes. We want to make sense of the numbers. The numbers do not add up . . . The public deserves clean, clear straightforward reports.