The board instructed us to contact the various interested parties comprised of the labor organizations, county retiree organizations and others and solicit from them ideas as to what can be done to ensure the viability of these ancillary benefits.

Our organizations together have helped 41 families and over $300,000 in equipment, labor and materials to care of their cooling needs.

They all take time. It's a labor-intensive, time-consuming process.

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

Our thanks go to all the volunteers and their organizations for joining us on September 17 to make a difference on our beaches and waterways.

Advertisers, governments and organizations mount huge campaigns to show us what they want us to see, and we want to expose what they're hiding. There's lots of precedent for this sort of speech in print, in film (and) on the Web, but we think videogames are particularly good at exposing the underlying logics of these organizations--how they work and what's wrong with it.