We typically identify the roads that need resurfacing about a year in advance of contracts being awarded.

There have clearly been serious questions raised about some of the contracts that were awarded in the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq,

We've said all along that it should be eliminated because the highway's official designation is U.S. 421. We get calls all the time from people who are lost because they are mixed up. Calling that road Business 40 does nothing but confuse motorists because they don't know where they're going.

We did it a year in advance, and we didn't get any credit for it.

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

The riverbank is in terrible shape this year. Golly, it's trashy. Typically if it weren't so bad we could clean 5 to 10 miles, but it's so bad I bet we spend the bulk of our day over the span of only a couple of miles.