The items are staying here because they are needed here. We have seen a lot of donations go to Louisiana and Mississippi, and that's great. But you're looking at people who are going to be here long term.

In 1989, the scientific community was completely unprepared to deal with an oil spill of such magnitude. There wasn't even a local veterinarian on site.

It's like I try to create these Douglass-like experiences at my own university,

That's pretty devastating in itself, but there's a lot more involved than just economics. Fifty years from now, we don't want to be telling our children stories about casinos.

This facility is a gold mine waiting to be harvested, a gold mine of jobs.

At some point, we're not going to have a choice.

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

You can have a pedestrian-friendly district. That can be done through design.

I think it's something that's exciting for the neighborhood, and it also gives the people in the community something to do. In fact, I just saw my neighbor and his wife walking down through there going to the game. Hopefully, I'll probably go when I finally get caught up on work.