I'm as excited about this as anything we've ever worked on. There's a lot that's right about the county and we need to talk about it.

We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.

We're not telling the story of Rowan County, and we need to do that.

Primarily it was to provide the board with a full understanding of the nature of the complaint filed in District Court and also what the legal issues are being challenged.

I think it's a positive response to some of the issues we've been struggling with the past few weeks.

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.