Oak Park, MI currently allows dogs to be kept outdoors with proper shelter and food/water. However, more often than not residents do not follow this law and dogs are kept in inhumane and neglectful conditions during Michigan's fluctuating weather and without the proper necessities. At the most basic level, this is simply horrible. Most of the dogs kept outside are not breeds that can sustain living outdoors (such as pit bulls and other short-haired breeds). Oak Park is a family-centric community and not only should our pets be treated as family and kept indoors, this keeps residents and pets safer. Dogs kept in yards have higher chances of escaping, and possibly getting lost, killed, stolen or even attacking others outside their property. The latter has actually happened to myself and my dog three times. Stop allowing our dogs to be kept outdoors!

Donald Trump is marching us toward war—or multiple wars—if his latest nominees and appointees are and indication. Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to run the State Department, opposes diplomatic agreements including the successful Iran Nuclear Deal, supports torture, and received the top award from a known anti-muslim hate group. We cannot trust his judgement to run the U.S. State Department, whose main mission is diplomacy, not war. Gina Haspel has defended the CIA use of torture. We cannot trust her to run the CIA and protect human and civil liberties. John Bolton has a history of bad decisions that have contributed to massive loss of life. He was a booster for the Iraq War. More recently, he penned an op-ed on the case for war with North Korea. He just can't be trusted at all - yet Trump appointed him to National Security Advisor. Trump pushed out his secretary of state and national security adviser who had helped restrain Trump's desire for war. His new appointees would be far worse—putting us all at risk. As a first step to protecting the balance of power, blocking a reckless war cabinet, and preventing unnecessary and costly wars: The Senate and must reject Pompeo's nomination as Secretary of State.

We all know that John Bolton is a terrible dangerous choice for national security adviser. But the Senate doesn't get to confirm that role. It does, however, confirm secretary of state for which Trump has nominated someone even more dangerous: Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is a climate change denier. He's anti gay rights. He wants to rip up our diplomatic deals. He's defended the use of torture. If fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the fire extinguisher that kept the Trump flame from engulfing us all, then Pompeo is the fuel that would make the Trump bonfire go out of control. He cannot represent us to the world. We can't stop Trump from appointing John Bolton—a man who pushed for the devastating Iraq War and who recently wrote the case for war with North Korea—as national security adviser. So our only chance to prevent Trump from assembling a war cabinet that would push us to war with Iran and North Korea and risk of ruining relationships around the world is to block Pompeo. Senator Rand Paul has said he won't support Pompeo—now if every Democratic and Independent senator does the same, we can say no to this bigot and no to Trump's reckless march to war.

I shouldn't have to do this. But in light of recent comments from politicians, I feel it is necessary.

TIRED OF THE CRAP DEM. REP. AND IND. HAVE BEEN FEEDING THIS COUNTRY FOR YEARS. ITS NOTT THE GOOD OLE BOYS LAST I REMEMBERED IT WAS THE U.S.A. . BY THE WAY WE FEEL THE U.S. STANDS FOR US....

Recently the Bentonville District Court has been denying record request that are important to Arkansas Employers and their representatives for employment purposes. We believe this is in violation of the intent of Administrative Order 19 and the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. This action has repercusions to Arkansas Citizens as it is delaying their work start date. We as employers rely on these background checks to protect our buiness, employee and customer safety. We ask you to address this situation and clairify the proper interpretation of Administrative Order 19 to allow access to these records by our Background Screening Companies .

One year ago on March 29, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided that our children’s health is less important than Dow Chemical’s profits. He revoked a ban on Dow’s nerve gas pesticide chlorpyrifos, shortly after meeting with Dow executives. Pruitt’s willingness to poison our communities to help Big Ag makes him unfit to serve as EPA Administrator. The evidence is clear: We need Congress to hold Pruitt accountable and kick him out of the EPA.

The Trump administration is willing to do anything to hold on to power and the people need to draw a red line. Fire Mueller or Pardon any of the Mueller investigations quarry or interfere in any of the many investigations into Trump, Trumps family, or Trump Co and we will act. And since Greed is the only thing that motivates the POTUS a General Strike is the only way to make him listen. A government of by and for the people! That means its our job as the people of America to put a check on the government when it gets out of hand!

Small business owners have been requesting custom flags since we relocated to Delray, 15 years ago. Residents have expressed the desire to display sports or holiday banners in their front yard. Selfishly, we’d like to work with our community like we have with the Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative. #shoplocal #madeinAmerica

Trump nominated Peter Wright to lead the EPA’s program that manages more than a thousand Superfund toxic waste sites. Wright is a Dow Chemical lawyer and former Monsanto employee. The Senate can reject Wright’s nomination. But we need your help to convince it to act!

The Trump administration wants to rush in a question [1] about citizenship status during the national census. Guess where they got the idea? From infamous Trump adviser Kris Kobach, who represents anti-immigrant hate groups. Of all the ways democracy is threatened by Donald Trump, an unfair and inaccurate census could have the most dramatic long-term impact on public services and congressional district borders. Inaccurate census counts give an unfair share of funding and representation to low-density, rural areas, which is why a bipartisan group of 161 mayors wrote the administration to plead that they not tamper with the census questions and risk an inaccurate count. [3] The more people who are afraid [4] to talk to a census taker -- either because of their own immigration status or that of someone else in the household -- the fewer congress members, the less federal money for schools and other public services, our bustling urban areas will get. States like Texas [5] and California will be very hard hit, as well as every large city, in any state. Sign today to join the chorus and make them hear us. Tell Wilbur Ross to do his job and serve the American people, all of us, not just extremists in the Republican Party. [1] - “Wilbur Ross Overruled Career Officials at Census Bureau to Add Citizenship Question” - Pro Publica, March 27, 2018 https://www.propublica.org/article/wilbur-ross-overruled-career-officials-at-census-bureau-to-add-citizenship-question [2] - “Trump Got Idea For Census Citizenship Question From Anti-Immigrant Hate Group Attorney” - The New Civil Rights Movement, March 28, 2018 http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/03/trump-got-idea-for-census-citizenship-question-from-anti-immigrant-hate-group-attorney/ [3] - “Nation’s Mayors to Secretary Ross: Don’t Politicize Census. Remove the Citizenship Question.” US Conference of Mayors, March 27, 2018 https://www.usmayors.org/2018/03/27/nations-mayors-to-secretary-ross-dont-politicize-census-remove-the-citizenship-question/amp/ [4] - “Hidden Figures: How Donald Trump Is Rigging the Census” Mother Jones, May/June 2018 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/donald-trump-rigging-2020-census-undercounting-minorities-1/ [5] - “Analysis: Adding a citizenship question to the census could screw over Texas” Texas Tribune, March 27, 2018 https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/27/analysis-adding-citizenship-question-census-could-screw-over-texas/

The biggest threat to our democracy that nobody is talking about is the real possibility of a rogue Constitutional convention -- empowering the far right to radically reshape the Constitution, our laws, and our country. If just a few more states sign on to a “Article V convention” for a balanced budget amendment, there’s no limit to the damage they can do. By exploiting never-before used provisions in Article V of our Constitution, 28 states have already called for a Constitutional convention, and they only need 6 more to succeed. Once convened, there are no rules on the books to limit or constrain what comes next -- which means unelected, unaccountable delegates, many of them picked by extremist state legislatures, would have free reign to rewrite our entire system of government. No law, no Constitutional provision would be safe. Ending Social Security and Medicare. Blocking a woman’s right to choose. Rolling back marriage equality. Gutting the EPA and labor protections. Repealing Obamacare. Undermining First Amendment protections for free speech and a free press. An Article V convention would let right-wing extremists write their entire agenda into our Constitution, with zero checks and balances. We need your help to stop them. This is the worst possible time to open this Pandora’s Box. Unlimited money in politics and partisan gerrymandering have given Republican extremists total control of a majority of state legislatures. When one party controls the White House, Congress, a majority of state legislatures, and the Supreme Court, it’s hard to imagine a fair process. Even worse, big money interests like the Koch Brothers and ALEC are investing heavily in the push for a Constitutional convention -- which means they’d be calling the shots if one happens. That means the result of any Article V convention would be a not only a massive swing to the right in our nation’s politics -- it would embed these assaults on some of our most cherished rights in the Constitution, creating an incredibly difficult hurdle to overcome, setting us back generations, if not destroying our democracy altogether. With just a few states to go until the two-thirds majority needed, the time to speak out is NOW. Please add your name today and tell lawmakers in your state to REJECT calls for an Article V convention.