When we want to hire or fire, both are happy or sad occasions, the Legislature believes it's fair to try to negotiate with people or gently reveal to people without having to air the news.

If the confidentiality outweighs the public's right to know, the body will go into executive session.

He's under fire in a big game, and he didn't get it done. It's not (Whiteside's) fault. I put him in that position. In practice, he kicked a 42-yard field goal. I've seen him make it, and he'll make it again. He's got a great leg. We just have to pump him back up and not put him in that position.

Flat-panel plasma TVs are on fire. It slowed a little bit in the fall, and now it's back. The prices are pretty extraordinary for the size of the TV.

If Joe was on the side of the road on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put it out.

Nobody tagged Sam as a fire-breathing conservative,