One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of read more

One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of Alaska as seen from the air, and with one click of a button, the viewer is able to add the locations of all of the other drilling sites in Alaska. It really drives home that most of Alaska is already open to oil and gas development and there's this one place that we've managed to protect thus far.

We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in read more

We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.

There may be some bit of caution since we're trading at record levels, but there's a fair bit of money read more

There may be some bit of caution since we're trading at record levels, but there's a fair bit of money waiting to go into the market.

I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn read more

I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.

Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding.

Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding.

A lot of mental health has to do with environment. They're crying because they have no other way to get read more

A lot of mental health has to do with environment. They're crying because they have no other way to get their energy out. They're not going to crawl if they're always in these swings.

You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base read more

You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base when he comes up. If he comes up with runners on base, they want to pitch around him and go after Holliday or myself. Having him in there changes the whole dynamic of the team.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured read more

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at read more

We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at the University of Houston and against some other Division I competition. That's probably a little more competition than we needed, but we competed well and now we're ready to see how we do outdoors.