“Usually, it’s a madhouse in here — everybody’s making money ... I had 10

“Usually, it’s a madhouse in here — everybody’s making money ... I had 10 people last night out of work.”

Chip Blake

Manager of Bad Billy’s bar in Aspen, Colo., on the effect a former resident had on New Year’s Eve celebrations after vowing “mass death” and leaving four bombs around downtown before killing himself.

“I’m not excited about a gas tax increase, but the reality is our current gas tax doesn’t pay for upkeep of the system we have now. We can either let the roads go to hell or we can pay more.”

Adrian Moore

Vice president of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank. A federal commission that oversees financing for transportation is talking about increasing the federal fuel tax.