I look at the list of headliners and I don't even recognize most of these names.

I'm proud that our team has been recognized by their peers and rewarded for all the outstanding work they do for the authority in promoting Atlantic City.

I'm not saying we should dominate the new game, but the Boardwalk should be one of the stops. Sure, put in the Statue of Liberty and Disney World and other places, but it's a slight to not have the Atlantic City boardwalk as one of the stops.

They were technically in breach then, too, because they didn't have a network contract. I don't think anybody would argue that CMT is comparable to a network.

It was a sad day for the city; she's been a fabric of this community for nearly 85 years.

Again, we knew they were in default, but it wasn't something we were going to blow up the contract for. We thought we could make it work.

Yes, we were all shocked. I don't think anybody really knew it was coming.

We were not going to go there. We know it would have put them under.

We were all caught off guard a little bit. One question I never got to ask Art (McMaster) was 'when did you come to this conclusion?' In hindsight, maybe the fact that we hadn't gotten a date yet should have suggested something. But I think we all thought we were working to keep it here.

Our main role is to change perceptions of the city. We can't do 12 different things.