The more projects we have of this nature, the more confident we can be that our authentic Cherokee culture is appropriately represented and that our visitors enjoy the essence of the Cherokee way of life.

Rockford and Champaign just announced wireless projects. We have to keep up.

As an agency, our model is not really one that works well with one-off projects.

A lot of these infrastructure projects benefit private entities just by their nature. If you build a highway and there happens to be an exit ramp to a mall there's some benefit to a private entity.

[Hicks, 54, grew up in Florida with a devotion to Southern culture, one inherited from his grandparents, who were wealthy farmers from western Tennessee.] I'd travel around with my family as a child, and you'd pass through these towns Charleston, small towns in Georgia and you'd see these signs, 'Where the Old South Lived, Where the Old South Lived, ... Well, here in Franklin, this is where the Old South died.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?