We, as a council, feel that revenues can be generated with the library and we see the library flatly saying that they refuse to do it. All we are trying to do is get some help with this.

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

We were told that the district would share with the city. That is part of the reason that many residents supported it. That just wasn't how it turned out.

The city isn't going to be the scapegoat for why this program went away. The local option sales tax was sold to us with the understanding that this money would be shared with the city and we have yet to see that happen.

There's no way you can justify somebody holding up a sign saying things like, 'Pray for more dead soldiers,' at the funeral of a dead soldier.

I don't think I'm alone in saying that Michigan is my favorite track,