There's an understanding on their part that unless we can provide additional transportation infrastructure, at some point, we won't be able to develop anywhere. We'll be so mired in traffic.

There are several of these a year. We have one of these every month in a different location. It's just an opportunity for elected officials and staff from every city and all of the county to come together, get to know each other and talk business.

Everybody understood we couldn't come back here with 130 projects.

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

When you talk about 50 tons of anything, that's a lot. We used to throw all of that stuff into the ground.

If our lawmakers are to effectively address immigration, international trade, the war on terror and other pressing matters, an understanding of the peoples of the world is vital.