The industry has been trying to get around existing consumer protection provision by the way they set up their contracts. This is a complete and total victory for consumers.

This is a complete and total victory for consumers.

From the perspective of consumer groups, it is legislation that basically allows the industry to continue its grotesque pricing practices.

We're trying to meet our obligations for flood protection and stream stewardship, and comply with all the statutes and regulations. It's a juggling act, but we do have to follow the law.

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.