We've studied this issue enough, ... It's past time. Our state budget has a $1 billion shortfall.

We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in that it would stretch out a little more. The sell-off in housing stocks has been overdone, since we don't think 30-year mortgage rates ... will put the brakes on housing.

It comes from the trenches we put across the faults to look at the time of past earthquakes. It comes from satellite-based measurements ... that tell us how fast the plates are moving.

I just don't think they ought to have a monopoly on the casino licenses,

The legislature has to recognize that options to significantly increase state revenue are very few,

I think it's not fair to impose additional taxes on just one industry,