When the mediator calls you, it's a good thing. We want a contract as bad as the county does.

We're not going to be pushed into something we don't want to do. All of a sudden, it's starting to get a little bit hectic.

Roads must be built here in Manatee County. To give $100 to make you look good politically, when people here are dying on roads, it doesn't make sense.

That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we are the only ones that have a dispatch center that can dispatch fire and ambulance service throughout the county.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

When someone calls you up and says, 'I got a great apartment in such and such a place,' you can go right to a particular block on our map and see the property relative to a subway station, relative to where you work.