71.   Just what the city needs.

72.   Mayor Jim Patterson said the city needs more time to evaluate the proposal.

73.   More to the point, would any other American city have needed one?

74.   My city needs help like that, and I sent some money.

75.   My city needs to be more passionate.

76.   Now the city needs to follow up that good faith with a good plan.

77.   Now, does the city really need that?

78.   Of course, a Valley city would also need a center.

79.   Others blame urbanization, because growing cities need more asphalt and other impermeable surfaces which will not absorb water that would once have soaked into the soil.

80.   Part of what the city needs to do is offer assurances people will be safe and there is a brighter future, she said.