Local markets react to themselves, not to one 100 miles away. Service stations look at their competitors every day and the more competition that exists, the price is generally lower.

And according to the Air Resources Board, demand is rising for gasoline and refining capacity is remaining constant.

We have the cleanest fuel in the country here.

National retail is Target and Wal-Mart, and we’ll never have that kind of retail here, not that we’d turn them away, but because there is no place to put it. We’d have to rezone West...

The people who come downtown to go to the repertory theater or the Aurora or Anna’s Jazz Club are not doing more than eating in restaurants. Ross is a discount clothing chain, and it’s the...