Anytime you've got activities going on in your community that are going to result in quality-of-life offerings, it can't be anything but an added benefit.

They are providing significant impact to the quality of life to not just this community but really the state. They embody what we're trying to sell Iowa as: creative, cool, high-tech.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We believe that all community efforts to nurture participation in the arts improve the quality of life for all members of our community.

Isn't that exciting? The quality of life in our communities depends on all of us. That is what community policing is all about: how we can do it together.

Lack of affordable workforce housing creates quality-of-life issues. The people we want to help are the people who are your neighbors, people who work at the stores, at the coffee shops. They're teachers, nurses, police officers. One of the great thrills of my business is when I hand the keys to a first-time buyer and they walk into the place and it's theirs. I've had people kiss the walls.