It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature. |
Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of ever-expanding reasons, ... Jury assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards for mental anguish and punitive standards. |
Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio. |
My guess is Bank of America will come here, |
Nelson and I are talking or being together three and four times a day. Almost every decision has been made in conjunction with the county and Nelson. |
No one told these fans to cheer for the Saints, ... They chose to do it, and I'm proud. |
Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they're never going to get along. |
or at least give us the money to do it. |
San Antonio is going through a metamorphosis from a small border village to a big city. |
sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don't have. We're not an industrial town, we haven't done much of that sort of thing. We don't have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we're losing business. |
The basic framework of this deal is (the Saints) make the city whole, and they get to keep the revenue, |
The great thing about a vibrant art scene ... is that it makes you a smarter city. Smarter cities get ahead in this world. More creative cities get ahead in this world. ... If you're not on the cutting edge, you're falling behind, |
there's probably been a bit of racism since the first time one person looked at another person that didn't look like them. |
This is not going to be costing us a cent, and we will be getting a big return, |
This year's general-fund revenue, paid for by property-tax revenues, fines, fees and City Public Service income is $728 million. Last year was $620 million, which is (about) a 17 percent increase over last year. Phil's not doing anything different than what the rest of them (former mayors) do. That money comes from taxpayers' pockets. |