The lawyers on both sides were very skillful, very smart,

The legal community seems to think that the jail, courts and clerks need to stay together. Transporting prisoners can be very expensive. If we move the jail to the county farm and keep the courts downtown that could cause a number of issues. And you can spend a tremendous amount of money guarding prisoners outside the jail environment.

The last time I won this thing (2003), I birdied 18 to win it. This time it was straight in and short.

All the economic indicators are helping to confirm that further rate increases are on the table.

The committee has concluded that they have completed the tasks that were put before them. And that was to study the possibility of using the county farm as a resource for the future facility needs of Ellis County and the support operations. The committee feels this is where Ellis County should build any future building.

The committee felt it (the curfew) hadn't been studied sufficiently to pass it on to council.

All three can run and all three are strong, ... You better bring more than one guy if you are going to bring one of them down.

You've got to give those guys credit. They came in here, and it's a hostile environment with Raider Rowdies screaming and hollering and its Senior Night and all. But, you know, it's a good way for the seniors to go out.

I felt then, and still feel, looking at it from the victims' perspective, that when they were moved to the back of the store and bound, it made it much more traumatizing for them than just being robbed,

Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs.