People need to step forward and get this done. We need to work together instead of all the burden being on one person.

I am not a guy to pay bills when I don't create them. Every time he talked to the newspaper or my wife, he charged me, just like an open checkbook. His bill built up pretty fast while we were just waiting for a court date.

The subsidies encourage people to get insurance at work, stifling the individual non-group market, and they encourage employers to provide overly generous insurance since the cost is subsidized. What's more, the subsidy is upside down - aiding mostly the high-income families that would probably purchase insurance under any scenario, and providing little aid to those of modest means.

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

The coach never promised me a starting position, but he did say that if I work hard enough, I'll see playing time. And maybe, in time, I could move up to a starting role.

If things go according to schedule and we have good weather to work, we could be finished with the entire project by 2008.