"This morning,the news story before the bike-eating-pole segment was regarding the,um, crappy water quality at City pools. The KOB reporter recommended swimming with your mouth closed."

"KOAT reports that the tree will be represented by the Branch Law Firm."

"At least they got to the root of the problem."

"He should do well as long as he doesn't go to Pete Dinelli's class on how to make friends."

"As well as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Rand Paul..."

"Also congrats to the Mayor for the success of the Coming Home project for the homeless and the recycling plant soon to be starting."

"And in other news, our very own Governor makes Time magazines 100 most influential people in the world!"

"Glad to see that Corporate tax rate drop. At least we are in the same ballpark with our neighbor States. Also,would someone please get Mimi some cheese to go with her whine."

"Really, Phil_O? Political gaming did not exist before 2000? I seem to remember a presidency that was known for its deft use of this technique in the 90's. That would be the Bill Clinton era. Heck, I think he wrote the play book."

"Um.. Political gamesmanship is played out every day across this country so you really can't fault the Governor for playing the game. It is standard practice to hold something hostage that is near and dear to the other party's heart and…"

"Some of the best pie I have eaten was at the Asbury Cafe. Unfortunately you can only go there during the State Fair."

"Francis. I stand by my argument whether you accept it or not. By your own admission, we are different than any other country. Please provide me then with a metric you would like to use to measure the successful education of a student? You can pick…"

"We both can cherry pick stats to match our arguments, however, even if those other countries spend as much as we do, we still fail as they out perform us on every measure but especially math and science. I suppose it all depends on where we get our…"

"OBTS - as a country, we spend more on education than any other developed country so I do not think funding is the silver bullet. So that argument doesn't work. Last summer I had a client in the health insurance industry that hired an executive…"