Our pass protection needs to improve and we have to move the ball more consistently without penalties. We have to play our best to beat those guys. They're defending conference champs.

We're reaching the point of overkill. We all agree there needs to be some level of protection, but what level of effort is necessary to make sure that happens?

[The 51-percent requirement] is a cruel joke, ... The ones that need the protection the most are the ones least capable of getting the signatures.

The Environmental Protection Fund is a national model and it's something New Yorkers should be proud of.

Every one of these birds needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act. In part, it's about protecting habitat, because every bird and every animal of any kind needs a home.

The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.