People were interested in this case because so many crimes had occurred over a relatively short period of time, ... He kidnapped completely innocent people and killed them. It stirred up a lot of interest in our community about the case.

I think he enjoyed the limelight of this notorious crime and all the people in the courtroom, ... I think he wanted to get up on the witness stand to testify just as he testified. I think it was something unusual to this case. It was the way he wanted it conducted.

You need time in order to build community. These days, single people live complicated lives and they don't have a lot of time. We need to make time to talk to each other.

Over the past year people considering running for president [at UP] might feel that they don't have the time or didn't feel that they were ready. Maybe they want to wait another year.

That doesn't sound like a lot of time. A lot of people worked hard for this and would like to see this happen.

We made the paper. But there was no time to get reaction, to do analysis, to find out what people in Ohio thought about what he said. And that's what local papers do that's so important. You're not going to hear those local voices on national television, or most of the Web sites people can access.