We have to win and hope Mesquite beats Longview. We've got the tiebreaker. But that's not the way to get in - backing in. We want to get in with a win.

Our best hope is to try and win against Rockwall. We know Mesquite's going to go all out to win (the district championship) and Longview's going to pull out all stops to try and beat them down there. But if we (just) win, we're in.

It was a pretty sloppy game. We turned it over 17 times and they turned it over 16 times. Nobody was really scoring are on fire. Both teams played good defense. It's just the free throw line that made the big difference.

You always ask for the maximum and hope to get a portion of it.

Her hope is that the more liberal, academic environmentalists on the coast would flock to her banner, which they seem to do. But she seems to hit about a 38-to-42-percent ceiling. There are just not enough people living on that coast.

This is the most significant drop we've seen since we began keeping quarterly reports two years ago. I hope it's an indication that drug use in Hawaii is on a decline.