Given the havoc fires have caused in the past and their potential to severely disrupt service, installing fire alarms makes very good sense.

We count on the city for fire service, but we've contemplated starting our own fire service in the past. (Universities) have two options: you either work with the city or you start your own fire service.

Three hundred million is a tiny drop in the bucket. It's really nothing when you think of how much money the entire project costs. That's what makes us nervous. These projects are so expensive. Are they ever really going to get funded? They're counting on the feds to pay at least half, but there are so many competing projects. We're very worried about whether these projects will really be built.

We always talk about how important public transportation is in this city, and when you look at the numbers of people who are using it every day, it really tells you just where it's at.

I think it's fabulous. It says they must be doing something right.

It was a very serious fire. Anytime you're burning hydrocarbons like this we're burning coal there's the potential for fire but it's not a common event.