If we are believing that part-time residents are the ones owning all these trophy homes, then we are not prepared for the reality that they are living here and voting here.

It's polarizing to people who've lived here a long time. Have they (new arrivals) moved here because they can or because they care?

I don't know that increasing population or increasing recreation in the national forest has anything to do with it. There is just not a clear link.

We did what we had to do. That's what won the game tonight, working as a team.

[Laura Lewis, PTA president of Menifee Elementary, said her main worries are the surrounding developments that will bring an influx of new people.] We're bursting out of the seams, ... The question is where we're going to put all these kids.

We know this is on the early side of the response. We think of ourselves as in this with you. This is going to be a long-haul ordeal. Our thoughts are with you.