New school buildings are greatly needed, the present schoolhouse being uncentral, too small, and inadequately appointed.

On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and--inevitably, inappropriately--debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.

Rocky is the major city on the central Queensland coast and likes to call itself the beef capital of Australia.

He's a raving egomaniac: all he ever talks about is himself and how important he is.