Miscellaneous

Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you read more

Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.

I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.

I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.

Citations are important and citations have their place, especially when people don't want to clean up their property. The officers read more

Citations are important and citations have their place, especially when people don't want to clean up their property. The officers have no problem writing citations but ... you have to be careful not to take a snapshot two-second look at a property.

There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick read more

There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.

It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, read more

It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, it's very important for the team and the city. We're trying to win championships, and anything that takes away from that concentration (such as contract issues) hurts. I think we can be one of the top three teams in the West. We have a great team and great coach. And we have an asset that a lot of teams don't have with Yao in the middle.

We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to read more

We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.

Ours is not a race to compete dollar for dollar with Ed Rendell. Ours is a race to ensure that read more

Ours is not a race to compete dollar for dollar with Ed Rendell. Ours is a race to ensure that we have the necessary funds to mount the most competitive race possible.

We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn read more

We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn Swann is Western Pennsylvania.

We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not read more

We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.

He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never read more

He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.