[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian read more

[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian and Carlton best-and-fairest winner in 1999, is believed to have told the club that he intends to retire but has been persuaded by Sheedy to reconsider.] Sheeds wanted him to stay and even James Hird spoke with him, ... They wanted him to go another year.

At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make read more

At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.

There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.

The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really read more

The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really what it's all about,

As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget read more

As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on read more

From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on that. Every ankle injury is different but I think we are faced with a (serious) tear of the lateral ligament and there is associated bone bruising.