Doug Smith
Doug Smith
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It's cause for concern, a great deal of concern.
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Folks want to do everything they can to have great schools, everything they can to fix and enhance their neighborhoods. I think there was a very clear message that folks are worried about real estate taxes, and they want the council to take care of that and lower them.
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Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.
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I was real pleased with the final outcome. Kyle Williams had a great round and Jay Marney came back with a 76.
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We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us.
estimate numbers strong
This was a strong set of numbers -- we had a pretax estimate of 1.184 billion,
again continue good schedule schedules
Our schedule is good again this year, and we're going to continue to try to have top-10 schedules every year.
avoid early extra left parking totally
Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.
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Some people are driving longer on tires they would not normally have on the vehicle, paying those energy bills for last winter.
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That would be like having Duke and North Carolina here in college basketball in the same week. We're proud of the fact that those clubs will come over here and play us, and it says we're going in the right direction.
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We were very fortunate because we had a lot of projects that continued despite the weak economy, so we actually were able to grow during that period.
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We don't curse. We don't put out bad messages. We rock-n-roll!
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As you look at overall population and you start factoring out people, many are not eligible in the first place to apply.
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Existing charity cards are more of a niche product while we see this appealing to a larger market. This is for people who are looking for a card that says something about them but also does some good at the end of the day.