Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.

Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.

It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're read more

It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're used to.

Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good read more

Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general read more

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually read more

The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet -- snow dampens all the sound.

There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.

There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.

Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how read more

Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how cognizant of ethnicity can you be in crafting a district. How distorted can a district become when the purpose is to capture a particular race or ethnicity?

Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro read more

Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.