South carolina with a make or break contest for at least some of the contenders. Lets ask Dan Hemminger and columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow jason riley. Any doubt that sanders is the front runner . No doubt at all. Numbers told the story. He has won two caucus is in the primary in a row in nevada and South Carolina and bernie has a cement like block of supporters a 25 . It is the question whether he can expand that base. We said that about donald trump. Im not sure the same is true of you dont think he could expand as much. One of the big stories in the past week, is the workers in nevada, they have repudiated, bernies medicare for all saying the preferred their goldplated private insurance plans. And the thing that most people attached to Bernie Sanders is medicare for all. And i think that was that six and with the American People it begins to establishha a feelingn his support which gives an opportunity for the moderates to vote however theyre going to do that, but a
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, acceptte has to decide the house plan or risk a christmas shutdown. Kevin cirilli is on capitol hill with the latest. We have been through this before. One of the prospects looking like at this point . Kevin it looks like at this point . Kevin it looks like they are going to kick the can. They are going to vote at 5 00 for a onemonth continuing resolution. It could get more complex when it gets to the senate. No locking no lawmaker wants to jinx it and by their ticket home because they want to wait and see what the senate is going to do. All indicators suggest that republicans are trying hard not to step on themselves one day after passing a tax reform package and would like to get out of here by close of business tomorrow but it is going to be up to the senate. Senator rand paul has concerns about surveillance programs. It is interesting it is going to be interesting to see how much noise he can make. David you also have senator collins who is holding a iou from majority leaders. Wh
Design scope. I meet code from a to z, or no, i cant meet it in certain areas. Its the onus of the Design Professional to bring that forward to our attention. As the authority having jurisdiction, we look at that and say, okay. What is your proposal . How do we meet the intent . Can we meet the intent . Can you give us an enhancement that offsets the deficiency that you cannot comply with . That thats what we ask, and thats where it becomes subjective, and i understand the differing opinions. When the Fire Department looks for an enhancement to offset the deficiency, we look at it through the lens of the Fire Department and our experience with fires. We understand how fires, how buildings perform in fires, how they affect our egress system, how they affect our Fire Department access, etcetera. So when we are looking at an equivalency or some kind of enhancement, were saying okay, from our experience, and our expertise being in a fire, are those occupants of this building, are they goin
Good morning, commissioners. Thank you for the invitation. Always happy to speak before the Building Commission and or the Building Department our partners. We see them as our partners. I would just like to say dan lawry laid out a very good process. It makes a lot of sense, and its a very good process. I thought he did a good job laying that out. Id like to just respond to our Planning Department. Were talking about waivers, that may work with the Planning Department. The Fire Department cannot waive fire code requirements. Its basically straight law. We cannot be less restrictive than state law, so id like to put that out there. The other thing id like to mention as i begin, and ill be brief, were all for additional housing, but at some point, when we get started with, its worth taking a pause to remind ourselves why we have building and fire codes. I know we all know this, but its worth mentioning. Its because over the centuries, weve had loss of life and property. We all know thats