I was called by a sales rep, and he garbled his last name. When I called back and asked to speak with 'Steve,' the receptionist wouldn't connect me. Here he was, trying to sell me something — I wasn't even calling to recruit him.

You say, 'Give me all the Web sites that are linked to Oracle.com.' Hopefully what you'll find are user groups, fan clubs of Oracle, private Web pages of people who work with Oracle, lists of all their friends who are Oracle programmers and home pages for all of them. You might even get into a hidden Web page that has the entire employee directory because the programmer didn't bother to program that to be part of the overall security.

One-third of the widening of the deficit is the oil bill, and aircraft sales explains most of the rest. It's a little superficial.

Every week the state puts out a new sales tax permit report that you can ask for sorted by ZIP code. We get a copy of that report to make sure that new folks coming into the city are reporting to the correct city. Every week there's an error.

Over twenty years, we expect to generate about $80 million or more in sales tax revenue.

What the town agreed to do, was share 45% of the sales tax revenue generated by the businesses there, with the developer, for about 14 years.