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We feel it was a stroke of luck that we landed in a district and at a school that takes the speech and debate program so seriously and gives so much support. For Alex to be in a school where they really have nurtured and developed his talent has been absolutely fabulous.

What I'm going to change is the perspective that the district attorney knows what's best for the community.

What you're watching here is field training to a standard. The scenario is ... in the District of Columbia and we've cobbled together a task force from five different states to come in.

Her intentions are to cooperate fully with the district attorney's office.

We then go back to our office and continue to review the information and then draft a final report that is sent to the district for review. They can respond and clarify anything.

We think 7.5 percent is a fair offer, given the financial constraints the district finds itself in.

We think Dalton's one of the best kids in the district at 135. That was a good measurement for us.

We take the best arm in the district - the region maybe - and have to move him from right field to second base because we have trouble there. We have guys not doing their job at second base fielding the ball.

We're obviously not district contenders. We're trying our best to make it to the district tournament.

We're obviously very pleased that the District Court rejected the government's arguments and stayed the entire judgment.

We talked all week that this was our tournament to lose. We expected to win, and when you win a district tournament by this margin, it's very difficult to find anything wrong with the way the boys played. I'm very pleased. These boys have had a great career.

I looked up and gave them a fist because they worked as hard as I did for this. I appreciate everything they've ever done for me. I love them so much. I gave my little brother (Chase, 10) my district medal and he was so excited. I told him he won it too, because it was definitely a family effort.

We may be the last district in Monmouth County to close it in.

We may kind of fly under the radar a bit, but we have a good sound team. We were seeded fourth last year, and this year we'd like to go out and win a district title.

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

He challenged all of the clubs in our district to see who could collect the most amount of canned goods for the Haitian Health Foundation.

We made the Dynamic Reporting Suite a cost-effective tool for any district size in keeping with our mission to help all students learn. It will be an asset to any K-12 setting in which educators are interested in using technology to improve student outcomes.

We lost some close games early in the season. But as we've gotten better, we've been fortunate enough to come out on the winning side most of the time since district started.

We look at the developments that are occurring in the School District area.

He did everything he could to make the district aware of what was going on and gave them the opportunity to stop the sale, and nobody said squat.

I am looking forward to being Public Service Commissioner for the Southern District to ensure that customers have reliable power service at reasonable rates.

I am going to go to district this year, no excuses. My big goal is to be a state qualifier. If I can finish my season at state, and maybe even place there, I would feel like I've done my wrestling career justice.

I always found out you're only as good as the backups on your team - they're only a play away from starting. Any chance we can get them in, we are. We don't want district to be the first time. That way, they'll be used to the game and feel more comfortable.

He was concerned about going back to the board, ... I do remember saying 'You have to do something,' and he left. I was kind of surprised that there were any transactions from internal accounts. I thought the $1.5 million we borrowed at the start of the month and the $3 million that the school district borrowed later that month would have been sufficient.

If the development district was outside of the 24,000-acre ultimate footprint, we would support it. We're asking our allies in Springfield to try to stop it. We would like to amend it.

If the district tries to cut our benefits off again, we will file a lawsuit.

If the Southeastern District takes over the space, what happens to the money we've paid in? We've asked for 5,500 acre-feet of storage. What do I tell my board? I need an answer.

If the bond fails, facility conditions in the district will continue to worsen, they won't get any better.

He did a good job at blocking and receiving. When you talk about a tight end, most of the teams in our district don't use them anymore. It's becoming obsolete. But he was valuable to us since we mixed in the passing game with the running game.

He is determined not to let the people of the 3rd District down, so he is in Washington a lot.

Had the school district, in the first instance, offered Brian a public or private school placement equivalent to the one the district ultimately provided, this entire litigation and its attendant costs could have been avoided,

He was trying to stick the landing, and that's what you want. He had just watched two teammates in front of him stick their landings, and he was going for it. He's a competitor, and he's been in this position before. What I'm most pleased is the way the team improved from district to this meet, and hopefully that will continue.

He will stand in front of the district court and plea guilty or not guilty. We do not have any plea agreement in place, so we will set a court date at that time.

Hm, I think I always had respect for the profession, my dad was a district attorney back home for over 20 years, so I had that going in.

Going through the district for the second time, we anticipate it will be a lot tougher. I think we caught some teams by surprise. I don't think teams were gunning for us like they will be this time around.

There aren't going to be any 'rah-rah' speeches coming from me. We're going to treat district just like any other tournament. I want them to be relaxed and to have fun. I think they'll know when it's time to get serious. I don't want them to be so serious that they'll freeze up before big matches. I just want them to continue wrestling the way they have all year.

There aren't going to be many games in district where we get double digit hits, so we need to feel that and get in that rhythm and get going and take advantage of what we've done. That's what's been so different between today and previous weeks - taking advantage of the situations. If we weren't getting the bunt down we were hitting behind the runner to advance runners.

There is an absolutely opaque wall that starts with the district administration and extends to the board on what is the best way to do things, We're not being told everything we need to know.

He's been the difference for us. We were 1-13 in district last year, and we believe we're a playoff contender this year.

He?s got a very good staff behind him, both up on the hill (at the district offices) and down at the high school. And he?s certainly going to have the backing of the board.

Hopefully this will close the chapter of this book. I hope we can work together to get this district back to where it was and better.

Hopefully we can quickly calm the nerves and get them ready. It's district and if you make one mistake you may be done. We just have to make sure we don't make the mistakes that lead to goals that could hurt us.

He's been distracted by everything. We need someone who has new ideas and can pay attention to the district more.

He's a winner, no doubt about it. There's a reason he's the district Player of the Year.

If, in fact, the first trial was terminated because of unfair acts on the part of the district attorney's office, then they shouldn't be rewarded for that. They should be penalized for it, and we believe that penalization would be a bar for a future trial.

What Energy Management does within the school district is we look for opportunities or ways to cut consumption in the schools.

Whatever we can do in the district to help, we're going to do it.

This wasn't our best performance. But it feels good to be the district champion.

We can enjoy this and celebrate, but we know they are a team that we will see in the District 4 playoffs. We can't forget that.

There is a gap between what the district has offered and what we think is reasonable and fair. They just want to get this over and done with. They're not seeing it from our point of view.

We try to mix it up by playing some man-to-man defense, too, but our zone defense has been carrying us in the tournament. The big thing is we can't give up penetration. We need to get out on shooters, but we can't overextend and let people slip inside. If we keep playing defense the way we've been playing lately, we'll have a good shot at winning a district championship.

We talked about that after our district tournament last week, and I told the kids we were in a similar situation in 2004. Everyone was sure we were going to state that season, and we knew we had to come with our 'A' game (Thursday).

The people that I have worked with within our school district are outstanding. Everyone's main objective is the right one ... the kids.

We took care of district play in the first go round. Now we need to go out and take care of the second round and get in a good position for the playoffs.

We took this very seriously. I think it says a lot about the people of District 7, that they understand that the city has serious challenges and they need somebody with a lot of experience in there right now. I think that's what differentiated me from my opponent.

We toughened our schedule up to be better prepared for the district run and it so happened that the kids responded to the challenge.

We just have to chalk this up to experience and hopefully once we get to district play it will look a lot better.

My reaction as a voter is to reach Hispanic voters in his district and get them to vote against him.

My personal opinion is this isn't even about what the district can afford. It's turned into a personal and petty battle. I think if the state would drive a dump truck full of money to the administration building, they still wouldn't budge on the offer.

My priority is providing the maximum academic challenge for each student in the district regardless of their ability.

Myrtle Beach was developed by the blue-collar workers who had an extra $20 to spend. The new lifestyle is looking for people with $2,000 to spend. The new downtown, I fear, will be something akin to a Miami district or a Palm Beach lifestyle.

My official position is that we have not settled. At this stage, what's going on in District Court is clearly moving ahead. It's up to RIM to make a decision about whether it wants to settle.

I was disappointed in our effort in the first half, especially after we played so well Tuesday night (in a district win at Pulaski County).

Like I told our kids, these first few weeks are like NFL preseason games. They have prepared us to play our district schedule, ... Next week, we'll start playing some people that are our size.

Like I've said all year, for the girls team I would love to win district. It would be incredible. I wish we would've gone head-to-head with New Albany during the season so I had a preview of what the district will be like.

Look at it like a job interview, tell us how your unique experience will round out the board. People should (also) know what the Health District is. Talk to staff, look at the Web site.

Math continues to be the biggest challenge, as with every district in Washington. Our biggest challenge, probably at this point, is math at grade 10.

Margo Hill deliberately buried exculpatory evidence from the district attorney.

Some of the battleground states, particularly those with other high-profile elections -- Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Washington -- may have higher turnout. But since about 33 states and the District of Columbia were not targeted by the campaigns, it is likely that turnout will fall in most of those states.

That caught us by surprise because this was the year the construction of the Rockville District Court was supposed to begin.

That does great violence -great violence - to the provision of the constitution ... which requires that a member sincerely represent the district in which he lives.

That concept didn't quite work out well and the district subsequently put in temporary walls to create individual classrooms. That made it nearly impossible for one class to exit their classroom without disrupting another. It was not a good learning environment.

I said to the kids, 'This game doesn't make the season if we win, and it doesn't break it if we lose,' ... The district games are the ones that determine making state, but it is a building block.

Some of these ideas are things we can do right away while others will have to be implemented over time. The board will meet next month and will have a report prepared as to how we feel the district should proceed with the suggestions.

Recently I went to a wellness meeting and was happy to see that our district is way ahead of the game when it comes to having a wellness policy in place. Even so, we have more to do.

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

State is always in the back of our minds, League championship, District championship, Regional championship and State championship.

Steve is a very smart wrestler. He gives up a lot of weight, he's only about 235. We've changed philosophies. We want to wear down opponents because he's very quick. Hopefully he can shake those butterflies out. The pressure is off him now that he is a district qualifier.

Such steps as transportation to and from these programs by the school district would allow more students to participate.

Sure, we had talked about winning the conference, that it was something we wanted to do. It was important to get it once we knew we could, but it's not as important as our district games.

(Playing in the district final) was an excellent experience for us. We had nothing to lose going up against the No. 1 seed. I thought coming in that player-for-player we were OK and we were a lot quicker, but our shots didn't fall.

Playing one match in two weeks will help us prepare for district better. This gives us the opportunity to heal some of our injuries and practice on the things we need to work on. We'll be spending a lot of time drawing up scoring plays. We want to be flying before district play starts.

Pinnacle Entertainment has been working diligently to refine our plans in downtown St. Louis and create a truly unique entertainment destination. This purchase is a necessary step that will enable us to master plan a new entertainment district and community near the famed Gateway Arch.

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Our overriding goal is to unite the intent of the Hyde Park historic district design guidelines with our development vision.

Our position is that our reporter will not testify to the district attorney or be interviewed by the district attorney or detectives from the District Attorney's Office. The Times Leader and its reporters are not investigators for the prosecution or the defense in any case; they are simply news reporters.

Past election results show most 19th District residents don't want a far left candidate representing them.

Parents went right to the district via e-mails. I was told that if I didn't meet with the (parents group), the district would not support me as coach.

Our ongoing work with Air Products and the South Coast Air Quality Management District continues to show how electrolysis technology can work in real world vehicle fueling applications. We are helping to demonstrate how using hydrogen as a motor fuel is becoming more and more practical for our nation's transportation needs.

Our main focus is to get ready for Central Hinds Tuesday night in the district tournament. I thought we played the best we could.

Our offense and defense struggled. We have put ourselves in a hole by losing our first two district games.

Our larger goal is to create a new arts district on Fourth Avenue.

Our Northern California congressional district has been ground zero for many tragic events from an outdated and inflexible ESA, including ... the Klamath Basin water shut-off of 2001,

Our office of professional standards is investigating this matter just as we do any time allegations of misconduct are made against district employees. The employee is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

People in that district will be looking for a change and a way to show with their votes they want to move in a new direction after Cunningham.

People know that this district today voted for change in Washington. We sent a message that we will no longer accept business as usual.

I want us to get back to the district championship and win this time. That will allow us to have a better seed in this round. We are asking these young ladies to do things they have never done before and we are going to have growing pains.

Last year, 32 states and the District of Columbia were short of cement. Many will have worse shortages this year,

Last year he won the OCC and was second in the sectional and a (Division I) district qualifier. He is one of the better wrestlers on our team and he is a leader.