We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.

We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess read more

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,

Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,

The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More read more

The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More than anything, you just want to observe.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where read more

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that read more

Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that through.

The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive.

The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive.

In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. read more

In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. It's clear that there isn't a silver bullet to deal with some these issues, but there's potential for looking further into the viability of some of the ideas presented.