About 14 months ago, we decided the condo route was the way to go.

The building was physically obsolete, and we knew we could never get a good enough lease rate to pay back all of the tenant improvement costs that were needed. So, basically, we let the leases run out and kept the building going for about three years.

We own the office building just southeast of us, at 360 South Monroe Street, where my father originally started his cable-TV company (American Television & Communications) in the early 1970s, so we feel we have a strong obligation to improving that neighborhood.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

...it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.