Chris King Quotations

We believe this premium valuation ... is difficult to justify.

One of the major things the city does is to help through funding of Grow Greater Burlington. I would put Dennis Hinkle (vice president of economic development for the chamber) up against any economic developer in the state. ... He's done a great job, an outstanding job and that's the major way that the city takes on that role. He's full?time. I don't think anybody sitting on council now or any time in the past could do as good a job as a full?time economic development focus person.

I wouldn't have been in favor of moving ahead with litigation if I had not thought it was necessary. Is it unfortunate? Yes. It's very unfortunate, but when you have a room packed full of people asking what we're going to do about their jobs and the corporation worked for that lied to the heads of the state of Iowa ... then you have a situation in question that could keep those jobs here, you ask a judge to figure who's right and who's wrong.

I got some work to do, ... I've got signs ready to go and I'll be talking to people.

If they charge a rental fee of $100 now, that fee may be $104 in the future, but that is something each business will decide for themselves, ... We'll receive a monthly accounting of rentals and leases from each business and the 4 percent tax will be applied. In the beginning, each business will be required to pay the tax monthly, but later, that can be adjusted to quarterly or every other month, whichever the business prefers.

If those jobs were back in the city of Burlington, I would no longer be in favor of supporting the lawsuit.

We sure notice a lack of detox facilities.

I think there should be exceptions. If your clientele is 70 percent smokers, you should be able to cater to them. They're stepping on freedoms, stepping on toes, and there's not a voice for those toes.

Just as is the case with the sales tax, once we get those returns in we'll cut the city a check. By December or January we should be able to get an idea of what sort of revenue the tax will generate,

Some of these guys are going to ride down and just park their bikes and forget about them. They won't have to worry about drinking and driving or anything else. We hope that will cut down some of the noise and traffic.

It does remove an overhang, as it is the largest affiliate left besides Nextel Partners,

That was my goal after he beat me twice this season.

When they built the first one in 1981, they didn't have the technology to do much. They tried to play with color and form, but they were pretty much stuck with a box.

To be a rock & roll suicide, he probably glamorized it a little bit.

We didn't mail notices just to businesses inside the city limits because there are others that may be affected by the tax if they currently lease in the city or possibly will in the future,

At this point, unless the planning department wants to get that off the ground again, I don't see it moving ahead, ... With everything the planning department is working on now, I don't think they have time for it.

do perfect by everyone, but I think with me they (public) will get a candidate who believes in the community and who has worked the past four years to do the best I can to make the community better.

Customers with this equipment can go to the Web site and set thresholds for their heat and air conditioning needs at different times of day -- to turn the (air conditioning) on a half hour before they arrive home, for example,

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

A sales tax is a tax on the consumer and a rental tax is a tax on the business itself. The tax is calculated based on the rental fee charged. For example, if a business leases a piece of equipment for $100 a day, the rental tax owed for that lease is 4 percent or $4,

Absolutely we need them back, ... Do we have the money for them? I would doubt it. The sidewalk program, I could use that. Before this budget year, I knew I had to replace the sidewalks at my house, but I didn't push to get that in there because the city didn't have the money for it. But I could have absolutely benefited from that program.

It makes it far more difficult for Sprint Nextel to argue for a valuation materially below current trading levels of Nextel Partners. Nextel Partners has a far superior growth profile than Alamosa.

In the wireless industry that's a long time to be projecting into the future.

By using the Internet we reduce our transaction costs by as much as 90 percent compared with traditional paper-based billing, ... That creates savings that we can pass on to customers.

The dynamics today were perfect for severe storm development. Earlier today, they had a snow advisory in Waterloo and a tornado warning in Clark County, Mo. Anytime there is that differentiation in temperatures, you'll have explosive thunderstorm development.