This year's class is not that good. You wouldn't believe the players from that class. Some of them were just flops. It's a thin year, with a capital T. There's a lot of free agents.

What interested me is that it is working-class and some middle-class housing, ... Typically one finds ornate homes of the wealthy [as landmarks].

It's kind of like a Saint Louis reunion of my class. We have a lot of catching up to do.

They all know it's a bad idea to miss class so close to finals. We see the colleges as being different from the high schools in that way.

The economists may think it looks like the beginning of a recovery, but until middle-class Americans and those working hard to get into the middle class get their jobs back -- the 3.5 million that they lost under George Bush -- then we don't have an economic recovery,

Wisconsin Democrats are focused on making life more affordable for our middle-class families, so they can pay for their health care, have a good-paying job and send their kids to college. Whether it is our schools, health care, jobs, energy costs, or the ongoing war in Iraq, one thing is clear: When it comes to these priorities, Democrats are on the side of Wisconsin families.