It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for read more

It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for a while until there is in-fill or more neighborhoods.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from read more

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on read more

Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we read more

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

We still saw the green route as the superior route. We truly believe it will have the least impact on read more

We still saw the green route as the superior route. We truly believe it will have the least impact on all the factors we have to consider, including property owners and environmental issues.

The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the read more

The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.

He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it read more

He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.