As has been well publicized, the golf industry has experienced dramatic shifts for the past 10 to 15 years. With read more

As has been well publicized, the golf industry has experienced dramatic shifts for the past 10 to 15 years. With the golf course construction boom of the 1990s, overdevelopment has become a real issue. While the golf economy is on the mend, there still are numerous challenges ahead. Under Tim's capable leadership, our new division is well equipped to work with owners and developers trying to navigate their way through these often confusing waters.

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's read more

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue.

They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did read more

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught read more

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense read more

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won't,

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won't,

There's a lot of celebration to this thing,

There's a lot of celebration to this thing,

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely read more

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.