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Best tires for ice
In order of best to best for the money (i.e. cheaper but still good) winter tires, IMHO;
Mark nailed numbers 1, 2 & 3,  , there's no beating the Nokias.
NExt would be Gislaved, only a titch behind the Nokias, standard footwear on all Volvo's & Saab's from the factory, and most Euro cars sold into Scandanavia. They kind of know about snow up there.
For a domestic choice, Greg has it already, Michelin X-ice (which is what I have on my AWD Mercedes) good tire for a reasonable price, not even too noisy on dry roads. Incredible stick on packed wet snow or ice, IMHO.
Past that, I have had really good luck with Cooper Discovery tires on my own pickup (with plow) and the pickups in the fleet, excellent tire for the money.
Best of luck.
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My choice is easy - I don't have the money to justify having two sets of tires for each vehicle - so I just have what came with it when I purchased the corolla. My tire buying experience is limited to what is on sale at Wal-Mart.
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Up here that can be more expensive than actually spending the money to buy snows.
The insurance company's have been pressuring the police to lay charges or at least make a 'finding of fault' in cases where the vehicles are NOT equipped with winter tires. If you rear-end someone, or are involved in any sort of single vehicle accident or anything that the police feel was an 'avoidable accident' such as sliding through a stop sign or red light they will at the minimum put it in the report that it was due to the lack of winter tires.
In a lot of cases that is resulting in a denial of insurance coverage for the offending driver.
The Government is also seriously considering making it mandatory that all vehicles (including 4WD's & AWD's) be equipped with winter tires between December 15th & March 15th as has already been done in Quebec.
Best of luck.
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Lets do a survey: How many of you REALLY have two sets of tires for each car AND have them changed out every season.
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Personal vehicles (not fleet stuff & not 'specialty' stuff I only drive a few times a year);
Two SUV's - two full sets of tires and rims.
One car - two full sets of tires and rims.
One pickup - it wears big nasty tires all year round.
We may want to limit this to people who live in a part of the world where we get winter.
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And I guess she is a more careful driver than her hubby..........
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Or she is a little more nervous and therefore drives slower.
That's my problem, I get a little too 'optimistic' and the right foot goes down a titch too far. So far however, I've only had a couple of close calls, in 2 cases dropping the snowplow did the trick, in the other (sans plow) the gravel of the shoulder gave enough traction to keep me on the road.
Coming home just yesterday my good lady was driving my ride and I mentioned that she could pick it up a little, she was doing a little below the limit, around here 10 mph over is 'normal speed'.
She eloquently pointed out that being me being quiet and enjoying the drive was still going to be a LOT faster than me walking home. 
Best of luck.
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