The idea should be well received, but it takes work to figure out how to pay for (a new system). People find ways to do things when they commit to them.

I read it a long time ago when I was a kid - early high school years,

I want to make it clear to sportsmen that this is federal money being spent, not Game and Fish dollars, ... But this is an excellent project.

It's almost as if this new televised tragedy has brought back the fragility we felt on Sept. 11 and undermined our striving for a sense of security.

This is a very typical start to a season. It's just very early. Generally it starts about a month later. People are used to burning, and they see a little bit of snow in the woods. They don't realize the grass is all dead and dry.

This is still the most insidious threat to our wildlife ... You can talk about wolves and grizzly bears, but this disease scares me for a variety of reasons,

There's not a way that you can prepare according to the subject matter. You have to learn that all the way through school. We pick the team in November and compete. What we have to practice is the buzzer system and the strategy.

The original drawing of the chief was used by my alma mater, Towanda, for the symbol of the Towanda Redskins in 1954, ... I would like to present it my beloved town.

We asked the citizens if they would support a pool, and they didn't. We have to move on with better ideas. It only happens with money. If you don't have the money, it can't move forward.

What we try to focus on is preventing areas outside of Mississippi from what we call raiding our physicians. We don't want that to happen.