“I think it’s really important for everyone...

“I think it’s really important for everyone to keep involved and

follow this, because it will be a changing line until something

works. And that’s what we’re hoping -- that one of these alternatives

will be the answer -- and everybody needs to keep their eyes open and

participate in the open houses and those kind of things.”

-- Costa Mesa Councilwoman Libby Cowan about the Centerline light

rail proposals under consideration.

“When I started here, people said I couldn’t do anything about

some of the issues, like the shopping carts, the homeless people and

the day laborers. But I don’t think that’s true.”

-- Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley about new projects to be

implemented under his leadership.

“It should have been caught. But it took parents making phone

calls to stop it. So many things have not gone the way they said they

would. It’s a question of credibility.”

-- Harbor View Elementary parent Meg Harrison about worries of

asbestos during school hours while the school was still under

construction.

“We want to bring the kids out of this disgusting room. Please do

something about this. Come spend one day in the classroom to see the

disgusting environment they’re studying in.”

-- Corona del Mar High School senior Brittany Malone speaking on

the problems of rats to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District

Board of Directors.

“Seeing is believing, and reading about this in a book and seeing

all the pictures is not the same as experiencing it.”

-- Environmental Nature Center founder Robert House during a tour

of the nature preserve that he founded in 1972.