We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

Now is the time for the schools to have the input, to tell us what's unique about their situation.

In order to cover the potential shortfall of $3.8 million caused by the delay in receiving the gaming revenues, I will be forced to eliminate nearly $4 million worth of desperately needed positions from the city's budget proposal for 2006,

Mr. DeLay has been brought to trial by a partisan district attorney who is abusing his office in order to score political points and raise funds for liberal Democrats.

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

[Kingston spends much of his time in Washington in meetings with DeLay, and attributed his resilience to a prodigious work ethic, a disciplined schedule and a well-organized staff.] It's not popular to say, ... but one reason is that he knows Jesus personally. When the chips are down, you usually start looking up.