From our perspective, there is nothing in the sales agreement and closing documents that obligated us to stay with Best Western.

We do feel it's a good agreement. It allows us to make significant improvements to Long Island Sound and to Jamaica Bay, and it allocated time for us to study what the best options are to do it.

The international (union) contacted us early this morning and advised us they had a tentative agreement to put us all in the Jobs Bank.

We never find a comfort level when sales are down, but it's important to keep in perspective that as the calendar year progresses, industry moderation is expected. The sales environment is still very encouraging and we are committed to maintaining our market momentum, particularly with our core products.

Financially, it's not a bad quarter. The concern from a retail perspective is that top-line sales number. It's not where you want to be as an ongoing, viable retailer. ... Long-term, you don't want to be losing customers.

From our perspective, they're setting a floor for funding transit from the motor vehicle sales tax and a ceiling for contributions to the highway user tax distribution fund for highways.