You've got a bubble in bonds. There is a panic to buy debt just like there was a panic to buy stocks in 1999.

The debt is going to be crushing.

When you have referendum materials that show a cash-flow crisis and $13 million in [tax anticipation warrant] debt is needed, and that turns out not to be the case, the public was deceived.

It does not go against your debt service. It will not have a negative impact on the city.

You don't fight an unfriendly Fed.

Judge Butch [Robert] Childers [Circuit Court, Division 9] works his butt off. He's gone the extra mile. I get bothered when I see a judge giving 110 percent on the job and then see false statistics being reported. It falls under the heading of no good deed goes unpunished.