You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could read more

You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could probably take that out of small change, ... The point of a punitive damage verdict is to punish the company for its wrongdoing. $3 billion (would) punish it.

[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur read more

[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur during the year.

Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition read more

Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.

It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got read more

It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got it all under control. None of the players off the bench or any of the fans in the stands ever made contact with any players.

Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a dangerous precedent. read more

Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a dangerous precedent. We'd just prefer that other states stop imposing their taxes on Washington athletes.

In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't read more

In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't feel like we had any control or say in it, and really we didn't. (Now the) insurance committee will have sole power to bring in representatives of insurance companies to listen to what they have and to make the decision on what insurance coverage is going to be elected by the union and the company.

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next read more

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?

There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot read more

There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot of public dollars being spent to have all these people sitting around going through a pre-app. Some people come in and don't have a clue what they want to do.

As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even read more

As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even like to use the world labor, it's just been all love.