Well the raise, one thing I like. One thing I don't like about it is the 1.5 percent you gotta pay across the board.

The judges look for students who are not just entering the competition to win a prize, but who are actually willing to start and run the business. Judges see if the proposals make sense and if they have the potential of being successful.

Students can use the competition as a step to starting their business. Most students who entered the competition in the past saw the competition as an opportunity to be motivated by deadlines to prepare their business proposal in an organized fashion and present it to investors.

The guys are smart enough to know that this was a mismatch. These guys lost seven players (to academic suspensions) last week. They're very thin.

We've basically done away with 1,600 telephone numbers. So, you call a central location, 311. All the information is here,

[Until the Salvation Army came, Alvarez and Perez had used water from a lake behind their mobile home community to shower and fend off the heat, even after receiving a warning from the state's Department of Health that the lake is contaminated.] We're desperate, ... No one has come out to help us. We're poor, but we're still human beings.