"It could be frosty sometimes," he acknowledged in an interview.

"A lot of those efforts early on were washed out by attack ads," he acknowledged in an interview.

About land use, he acknowledged in an interview, "I have a lot of reading to do."

He acknowledged the risk to himself and to his wife and daughter in an interview at the time.

Mayor Davis acknowledged in an interview last week that the city had known about the problems before this fall.

However, he acknowledged in an interview, "it's difficult to say because there is no documentation."

But he readily acknowledged in an interview that the odds are against him.

"I knew it might be superintendent suicide," he acknowledged in an interview.

"It doesn't get much better than this," he acknowledged in an interview.

His theory cannot really be tested, he acknowledged in an interview.