It is important we have a checks and balances system. A bicameral legislature provides a diversity of membership, leadership and outlook that can't be achieved in a unicameral legislature.

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

We need to review exactly what the House did to ensure it fixes what needs to be fixed -- which essentially is how the existing law is executed, not the law itself. But our initial timetable is to move it next week.

We are working with Sen. Johnson's office to save the zoo and keep it open. It's hard to predict how easy or difficult it will be to get it done.

The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has gotten away.

He who plays the last trump card wins. If you vote for the ballot initiative in November, you are voting to lower the minimum wage in Michigan.

We have concerns over where the governor thinks she is going to get the money for that.

What the Democrats seem to be doing is finding new and exciting ways to punish businesses. We think that sends a bad message. The image it would project is one of a state that is not friendly to job providers.

It's not a bad idea, but when you look at the cost of a lot of things, you have to look at where it fits into the grand scheme of getting the economy moving again.