But, we see a continuing effort by schools and the federal government to keep tuition costs down.

I cannot tell schools that we need to give them another rule when we have worked so diligently to reduce the number of rules that are here.

It takes a community-wide effort, and that's what we've seen in both of these communities. Businesses working with schools, volunteers working with local leaders; these are the partnerships that make our communities stronger and healthier,

The dilemma is that you will have some schools that can afford to have incentives and some schools that can't.

This increase in applications . . . is a result of sustained efforts by both the federal government and graduate schools.

Whatever the government says about improving infrastructure, building schools and other essential services the fact is it just simply doesn't have the money. Servicing public debt alone last year (interest and amortization) ate up 95 percent of total revenues.