It is a potentially very deadly time. Doing everything we can to monitor his whereabouts is the best we can do to protect her safety.

The sad truth is that people brush it aside until they're personally affected; they fail to understand how heartbreaking this is.

After all these years of working so hard, to lose her own daughter to domestic violence is just a tragedy that goes beyond measure.

This thing would pay for itself to the city over time. This will generate new sales tax. I don't think anything would have happened on that site. It would have sat there and decayed without the help the city has provided through this redevelopment district. If the project would have worked without the city investing $3 million, then that site would have been developed a long time ago.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.