To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials and the builder to take responsibility,

This is a hard time for the city, a hard time for the council and a hard time for the mayor. I'd much rather be mayor when I was than right now.

The Afghan people in the city live in something like mud houses, ... If they live out in the country, they live in old-time tents with no electricity. In town, they sleep on top of their houses because it's so hot at night.

It sounds as though the city is really pitching in in support of the ordinance that the council passed to address this problem,

up close when I was in the City Council.

I didn't want the school to come off as asking little childish questions. Everyone wanted it to be very serious.