These and other similar issues like them affecting the city's financial health need to take a priority over the issues related to programs and services at this point.

I see that as one of our key roles. Where something isn't as clear as it should be in the document, we're going to try and explain some of those items and also fill in information gaps.

10.6 percent of adults in Greenville County do not have insurance, and 23 percent of adults who have health insurance do not have dental coverage. So we are opening a full-service dental clinic for adults and children who have no insurance.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they're being managed, they do not talk about it. So it caught all of us by surprise. But when we look back on it, his behavior did change. It became erratic.