She actually did what she said she was going to do. When you're trying to attract a job creator, it's important that employers see that the city is investing in itself.

These are issues we need to embrace and develop long-term strategies for. If we do so, our community will continue to be a marvel of growth and opportunity.

We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good if you're an employer, but combine this with our rapidly rising cost of living and absence of affordable housing, and rapidly rising housing costs - up 30 percent last year - and you have a formula for failure.

None of these in and of themselves are the end of our economic success. They're simply areas we have to focus on.

We've been trying to get Sam to shoot all year because she is a tremendous spot up shooter, and I think that she is really growing into her own now and really stepped up for us tonight.

We're trying to keep all the plates spinning before they hit the floor. We try not to load up a year of projects if we don't have the man power to operate them.