Metzger...I think one reason why you don't hear a thing from management anymore is that after honestly conveying to investors what they truly believed to be the case (i.e. that the permit was imminent based upon all of the information that they were receiving from the VZ bureaucrats)....they have decided to stay mum until it is official. Maybe you are correct. Maybe management is a bunch of conniving, thieving pricks. Lacking informatin to the contrary....and given the fact that I own shares....and in light of the demonstrated vagaries of doing business in VZ....I have to give management the benefit of the doubt. After all....anything they say publicly can and will be held against them by the VZ authorities as well as impatient investors. Patience is a virtue. I hope in retrospect I am not naive.