The school board has failed Newark's children, he said, and now the state deserves a chance.

A state which does not trust its citizens does not deserve their support - and ultimately will not have it.

If any state deserves the cup permanently, it is California or Florida, purely for reasons of climate.

In musing on its future, our elected officials might also give thought to whether a first-rate state deserves cut-rate parks and historic sites.

But a loophole lets a state inflate its costs above what they actually are, thereby extracting more money from Washington than the state deserves.

All but three for the trial he figured the state deserved for everything he cost them.

"Without question, our state deserves a major league team," Mr. Mack said.

The left-wing establishment believes that a "corrupt, racist American state deserved to be attacked and destroyed."

But many lawmakers have pushed for more, saying states deserve a greater return on their gasoline tax dollars and have a backlog of priority projects.

That affirmation of virtue was viewed skeptically by Republicans who said the state deserved better.