Vail is a melting pot. In any community this diverse, there's going to to be bigotry, and there's bigotry for every race.

A lot of people assume that anti-Semitism and bigotry in general are on the decline or fairly flat, but anti-Semitism is actually on the rise in the world.

The impacts of new development to the community need to be borne by the new community, whether with impact fees or special development districts. Let's say there's 10,000 dwelling units and I'm 1,000 of those. I should pay 10 percent of what road studies say is going to be impacted.

They are providing significant impact to the quality of life to not just this community but really the state. They embody what we're trying to sell Iowa as: creative, cool, high-tech.

I liked learning about what the community has done to the Earth.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.