The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

What I have observed over the past 18 years is that the pace, the number of bills and the amount of time that legislators have is certainly less than what they used to have. So getting with them during the session is becoming increasingly difficult. And so you have to resort to other means. And other means includes inviting them to events, having them involved in annual meetings, things of that sort.

It makes up for all the hard losses we had in the past.

I don't remember practicing against spread offenses as much as we did this past fall. It's (been) a lot more.

He is a person we have dealt with in the past.

Over the past year or two, residents have come before this commission and still don't have an answer. I think it would help if we had some kind of clear guidelines on what we need to do.