School crisis teams and staff often have unrealistic expectations of police and other public safety personnel response capabilities, which creates a false perception of outside support and less internal capacity building for handling a real school emergency.

Why on Earth are Congress and the federal bureaucrats cutting school emergency planning and safety money, while spending millions on ad campaigns and Web sites?

We've had 18 school associated violent deaths this year (and) over 50 non-fatal shootings across the country.

Even if the government had actual real-time data, it's two to three years old, ... School administrators need to know what is happening today and what to anticipate tomorrow, not outdated numbers from yesteryear.

Certain preventative maintenance is essential to refinery safety, ... Even in the crisis, if the goal is to keep petroleum supplies flowing smoothly, safety needs to remain a high priority. We've seen the effect in Texas City that a major accident can have on gasoline supplies.

We have a public safety crisis here in Florida. Fatal crashes are up 10 percent this year.