“It’s kind of our Super Bowl of the year.”

“It’s kind of our Super Bowl of the year.”

John Giannios, who along with his brother, Greg, owns Giannios Candy Co. Easter makes up about 50 percent of Giannios’ business for the entire year. This year, the 102-year-old candy maker will create 1.5 million pounds of candy for Easter.

“The thing that I was shocked with was that a kilo of ground chuck is 25 American dollars, and that was this summer. Now, forget it. Now, two large pizzas are 30 euros, which in dollars according to what it is now, it’s $39 or $40 for two large pizzas.”

Mary Hazimihalis, of Youngstown, who owns property on the Greek island of Kalymnos. She said people are unable to find work or sustain themselves in the economy, which is cutting jobs and lowering minimum-wage rates.

“It’s not alternative energy. I refer to solar and wind as an exhaustible energy source, this being the original kind.”

Joe Marrs, owner of gleanPower, a solar electric and wind power supplier. Marrs installed his first turbine on his parents’ Krum, Texas, ranch, just a few hundred feet from three of his family’s operating gas wells.