The General Assembly is considering a bill (HB 436) that would prevent local municipalities from imposing impact fees on developers. If developers aren't made to pay their fair share of infrastructure costs to support growth that they profit from, residents either will pay increased property taxes to support their profits or residents will suffer from more congested roads and overwhelmed infrastructure. I'm sure this is an issue that will impact other municipalities and it is yet another example of the "small government" Republicans over-reaching to try to regulate municipal government. Raleigh's infrastructure is not keeping up with growth – resulting in terrible traffic congestion. Developers say everyone should live near where they work so they can walk or bike everywhere, but that’s not practical for all. Gentrification is leading to rising housing prices, crowding out the already inadequate supply of affordable housing. Developers say density is preferable to sprawl, but most of the density seems to be luxury condos and apartments and replacements of modest homes with McMansions, forcing those looking for affordable housing to move further away and thus contributing to sprawl. Those who work in Raleigh (teachers, first responders, hospitality workers) can’t afford to live near their work places, so we are getting sprawl nonetheless. Developers say residents benefit from growth through increased property values, but residents may be forced out of their homes because they can’t afford the higher property taxes. And there’s nowhere affordable for them to go. Developers make the money and residents pay the bill – welfare for the rich.

The Constitution is vague on many things, but it is not vague about the Founders' concerns that politicians would use public office for personal financial gain. That is why they wrote the Emoluments Clause. Transparency -- particularly on financial matters -- is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy.

We are about 1600 families in our Community and are experiencing very bad cell phone signal while at home. Our calls often drop and switching to wireless calling is not helping as a work around. It's sad that for a million dollar community, ATT is unable to provide adequate cell phone signal. I have checked with City of Frisco and apparently there are no additional cell towers planned in near future. We need ATT to consider improving the service at the earliest possible, failure of which we will change our service from ATT to a better service provider.

Corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes, not create tax loopholes or hoard money in off shore accounts. America needs infrastructure overhaul and decent people to run our government, not greedy politicians emboldened to corporations.

Everyone who uses the internet should be alarmed at the prospect of all our browsing and app activity being vacuumed up by the giant broadband internet providers. With only a simple majority, the Senate has already approved the rollback of internet privacy protections and the House of Representatives will vote on March 28th.

The Libertarian Koch Brothers are controlling OUR political system and with $80 Billion they can bribe a lot of politicians. Their RADICAL agenda includes controlling women’s bodies, recklessly polluting the environment for financial gain, sabotaging solar and wind energy progress, taking away worker’s rights, privatizing our infrastructure and doing away with: Social Security, ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, the EPA, the Post Office, etc. The Koch Brothers blatantly bribe OUR representatives with large donations and threaten to withdraw their financial support any time a politician does not maintain their dictates. Therefore, we the American people, vow to EXPOSE every politician and PAC that takes their money, BOYCOTT every group that involves the Koch brothers, and BOYCOTT every Koch product, such as: American Greeting Cards Angel Soft Brawny Paper Towels Dixie Plates and Cups Georgia Pacific products Kittensoft Lycra Mardi Gras Quilted Northern Soft N Gentle Sparkle Stainmaster Vanity Fair Thermolite Americans for Prosperity Freedom Partners Research more items, especially in tech, clothing, ag, building, chemical, oil/gas and packaging industries (ex): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers http://www.kochind.com/companies/ http://boycottkochbrothers.com/ http://www.kochwatch.org/2013/10/28/28/#comment-431 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/26/koch-brothers-network-announces-889-million-budget-for-next-two-years/22363809/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers http://www.alternet.org/story/150078/how_you_can_boycott_the_kochs (Note: Koch brothers work directly and indirectly to establish their agenda)

My bill more than doubled inexplicably, then, that amount tripled, while my already minimal use has become more minimal. After hearing from others in my area and doing research, I see this has become a practice of PGE as of late.

Donald Trump is endangering our country with his impulsive tweets.

Breitbart 'News' is corrupting American news cycles and misleading a broad portion of the American public.

NY Times Editorial Observer 3/13/17 by Elizabeth Williamson article, "Want to Keep the President at Bay? Two Consultants Have an Inside Track", describes the lobbying efforts of the 2 former Trump senior advisors, who help companies fend off "tweet risk". Two clients of Avenue Strategies listed in the article are: Scott's Miracle Gro and Community Choice Financial, a payday lender. I have long used Miracle Gro but will no longer. It's time to spring clean, and serve notice on Miracle Gro.

CoreCivic is a Violator of Human's Rights.

In January, I informed Guitar Center over Twitter that they had ads running on the racist, sexist, xenophobic website Breitbart. Breitbart is the website that Trump advisor Steve Bannon ran before moving over to Trump’s campaign. Bannon said that the website was a platform for the alt-right movement, a sanitized word for white nationalism and hate groups. Here’s just a few of the horrible headlines that have run on the website: - Hoist it high and proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage - Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy - Gay rights have made us dumber, it's time to get back in the closet Breitbart has helped spread the hate and bigotry that propelled Donald Trump to the White House and plans to start doing the same in Europe. We need to stop it and one of the ways that people across the world are taking action to slow down the growth of this hate is by asking companies to remove their ads from Breitbart.com, so they aren’t funding the site through ad revenue. More than 900 companies, including BMW, Kelloggs and AllState, have already pulled their ads, so I assumed that Guitar Center would act quickly to do the same. But, Guitar Center has so far ignored tweets letting them know about their ads and has not confirmed whether it’s removed its ads from Breitbart. Sign the petition to Guitar Center CEO Ron Japinga, CFO Tim Martin and EVP of Sales Michael Amkreutz to demand they stop funding hate and remove Guitar Center ads from the Breitbart website.