The most memorable quotes in the Times Free Press for July 14-19:
“The school system comes to us asking us to spend our discretionary funds on [smart boards]. Now they want money for these TVs to work somehow with their iPads. I don’t understand it. … Chalk still works, and two plus two is still four.”
— Hamilton County Commissioner Fred Skillern, questioning the need for constantly upgrading public school classrooms
“Nobody had to die that day.”
— Theresa Daniel, after her son did not receive a recommended mental health evaluation and was shot to death