We want to see a strong public role in administering and managing the system. If the counties would wash their hands of it and say, 'We're turning it over,' we would have some large concerns.

If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

A much better way has to be found in managing the public purse on the restoration of these buildings and there must be far better accountability.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has a number of Braddock markers in Allegheny and Fayette counties, but none in Westmoreland. We applied for a PAHMC marker but were turned down. So we put up our own marker on Main Street in Mt. Pleasant, which we dedicated.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.