The ongoing decrease in the number of people smoking in California is a major public health achievement. With California adults smoking 25 percent less than the rest of the nation, our state continues to benefit from lower rates of tobacco-related illnesses.

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

The only dark cloud to this number is that now the Fed has no reason whatsoever to stop raising rates.

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

The only reason we didn't add it at the time is that Old Salem wanted a more visual historic quality than concrete apron so we pulled it out of the contract and did it separately.