Officers need to feel safe there's no protection,working in the hospital Again someone who comes in with a gun or knife.Our family's are already concern because of the work we do. I'm sure they would love to see how the Corporation is trying to protect the peace officers. We are first responders were put hear to Safeguard all staff and patients.

Due to financial hardships, the Board of Directors of the New Netherlands Museum has decided to move the Half Moon replica ship to the Dutch city of Hoorn in 2015. Many in New York want to find a way to keep this vital piece of New York's early history on the Hudson River and in the Capital Region.

The Valley Hospital’s policy to allow religious imagery for Hanukkah but to forbid the religious imagery for Christmas is inconsistent and insensitive. Both Hanukkah and Christmas are distinctly religious holidays replete with their own rich history of religious imagery. To reduce Hanukkah and Christmas to mere secular symbolic reminders is disrespectful to those who celebrate each. Hanukkah is a Jewish celebration of the preservation of Judaism during a time of forced religious assimilation. It is a celebration of the miracle of light in the midst of darkness. Christmas is the distinctly Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is the celebration of God born as a child in the city of Bethlehem as written in Holy Scripture. The Valley Hospital has determined that Christmas is accurately represented with a decorated tree, wreathes and poinsettias. These secular symbols do not remind us of the birth of a person, Jesus Christ. Depictions of this holy event, such as nativity scenes and other Christian imagery, are not authorized by the Valley Hospital. On the other hand, Hanukkah is accurately represented at the Valley Hospital with a purely religious motif, the Hanukiah or Hanukkah Menorah. Why is it that Christians cannot also observe their holiday according to Holy Scripture while at the Valley Hospital? It is our wish that the Valley Hospital give equal representation to all of the faiths in our community. While we welcome Jewish religious symbolism at the hospital, the clear omission of Christian imagery is insensitive. The decorations for Christmas and Hanukkah in public spaces at the Valley Hospital should be faithful to the religions they represent. To emphasize one faith tradition by accurately representing it, while minimizing another by turning it into a secular cultural holiday is an injustice to all people of faith. We ask that the Valley Hospital, its administration, its trustees and staff permit the display of Christian religious imagery depicting the Nativity of Christ, which Christians celebrate on Christmas. Please sign this petition to end unequal religious expression at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Dear Mayor Walsh, I am a member of the Fairmount/Indigo Corridor Network — a growing group of community, business and institutional stakeholders from Newmarket to Hyde Park. As our mayor and a long-time resident who understands and cares about issues of equity and fairness, we want to work with you to shape and influence the future of our communities. The network is urging you to include, in your first State of the City address, a commitment to working with community stakeholders to realize the vision of the Fairmount/Indigo Corridor as a ‘Corridor of Opportunity’ by ensuring: • Policies and sufficient funding to stop displacement of renters, homeowners and businesses. • Social and economic equity across incomes and race. • A Fairmount/Indigo line consistent with other MBTA lines with good bus connections. • Economic opportunity through job training, support for local businesses/entrepreneurs, asset development and wealth building. • Healthy, safe, vibrant neighborhoods with opportunities for arts, recreation, civic and cultural celebration. Please do not forget us in January!!! Warm wishes for the holidays, Your name Organization Address _____________________________________________________________ Here is how you can help us spread the word: 1. Share this website 2. Email the Mayor at [email protected] & Jerome Smith, Chief of City Engagement at [email protected] 3. Call the Mayor’s Office 617.635.4500 4. Mail in your support: Mayor Martin J. Walsh 1 City Hall Square, Suite 500 Boston, MA 02201-2013 5. Share this with your friends, neighbors and email lists!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SUPPORT!!

I started this petition to show solidarity with our mayor.

It is sad to hear children say they can't share the bible in school and their teachers want let them.God is our foundation and always will be what are we doing?

There are too many people who are dumping off their pets along the roads, killing them, beating them, hoarding them, running puppy mills and fighting them with other animals. People should have to qualify to adopt a pet from anywhere and from anyone. If they can not afford them, then they should not be allowed to care for them. It is a proven fact that even though pets forgive unconditionally, they still have the emotions, feelings and the mentality of a 3 to 5 year old. Imagine someone mistreating your child at that age; they would go to jail and be charged with a felony. We rescued a sky terrier that was kept in a cage, fed saw dust and molasses, never taken out of the pen, picked up by her ears, and continuously bred for half her life. When we got her home and sat her in the grass, she got used to it and she ran and jumped and rolled in it. You would have thought she was crazy when all it was was excitement to be able to run and play. We rescued another puppy. When the owner would return to his house and the puppy barked and jumped with excitement, the man kicked the puppy clear across the room yelling at it to shut up and get down. These two dogs are the most gentle babies ever. We could go on and on about animals we have rescued but won't do that. Please, let's get the word out and stop animal cruelty.

I turned 80 this past year. I have lived through a lot of history: World War 2, the invention and proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons, space explorations, the movements for civil rights, workers rights, women's rights, marriage rights, questionable wars, global conflicts, our perpetual state of war, growing economic inequality and corporate greed... I am proud to stand with those of the younger generation in the fight for peace, justice and equality!

Firstly, let us express our appreciation for the efforts of the Board of Directors and its managing Agent, in particular through many of the recent difficulties and challenges. Also, we completely understand the importance of compliance with City regulations and the need to be mindful of liability issues. However, many of the Bayside Court Community are concerned about the imminent evacuation and structural plans for the storage room.

My name is Luciano Nova. I have been a resident of Pacifica, California since 2008. I write to you this email with concerning an issue very important to myself, to everyone pertaining to the internet the future of broadband that many people are not aware of. I have been an AT&T customer since I moved to this beautiful city In April of 2008. I have never had an issue with the service. Customer service was always good, connection was always solid and line trouble issues were minimum. If there ever was an issue with connecting to the internet, maybe once or twice did a tech have to come out and repair a line. Most of the time it was because of the modem settings that needed to be either rebooted or reset. However that being said, dry loop copper DSL service at 3megs or 6 megs is NOT cheap. I also do not understand why they have a monthly data cap of 150 gigabytes a month in place. With services like Netflix, Amazon Fire TV coming online and competing with traditional television and cable services and not to mention video conferencing, websites such as YOU TUBE and gaming consoles, a 150 gigabyte cap is outright extortion. AT&T does not even offer u-verse in my area while advertising that they do. The only difference between AT&T's monthly cap and that of their competitor Comcast in my area being 300gigs is that at one time they would outright call and threaten a user with “using the internet too much” and would threaten that subscriber with disconnection for a year. AT&T charges $10 for every additional 50gigs a subscriber goes over. I never once received warnings from AT&T but I also understand network management and congestion. The reason why I chose DSL over cable is because they much more redundant and designed to function efficiently regardless of the number of users given at anytime. That’s how the old fixed line telephone system worked. Cable lines are shared and speeds vary due to traffic by any given number of users at any time. Now many alternative news sites are reporting that AT&T and Verizon do not want to maintain the aging copper (former telephone) infrastructure that DSL currently functions on, so both companies have begun going state by state gutting all regulations and 1) either to abandon them forcing people to move to very expensive limited wireless services they provide OR to cable internet which is even more expensive, OR satellite if they are even available OR 2) selling those unwanted DSL infrastructure to smaller ISPs like Frontier, Fairpoint, Century Link (formerly known as Quest), or the one that is my area called sonic.net. In a few towns south of here in the Peninsula in Santa Cruz, AT&T’s DSL service hasn’t been running well and they have not come out to repair or correct the problems. Now the question becomes this : What exactly is AT&T doing? What is AT&T investing? are they going to sell their DSL copper network in my area which is Pacifica California to sonic.net or another ISP? If AT&T is unwilling to invest in DSL, they SHOULD sell to sonic.net. I wrote a complaint to the FCC because I as an internet subscriber object to data caps unless ISPs like AT&T are treated and regulated like utilities. If ISPs like AT&T want to impose monthly data caps on subscribers like an energy utility then TITLE II utility regulations need to be in place. I’ve started a petition in the city of Pacifica to bring sonic.net here. I want competition in my area. AT&T I’ve never had an issue with them. I can honestly say while service is much slower than cable, internet connection is stable and truthfully solid. But because I watch streaming TV via Amazon Prime and Netflix and I am a gamer as well work from home, this 150 gigabyte monthly cap is simply another revenue stream for AT&T and not enough. I know several people who have sonic.net and all have told me how good the service is and having visited a friend's home who has it, I have to agree. For DSL, it's faster and more solid than AT&T. AT&T offers internet speeds of 6megs while sonic is 10megs with some areas reaching up to 20megs. I don't understand how a smaller carrier Sonic versus a much larger one AT&T both functioning on a copper network is delivering better and faster service and is cheaper too. Please Mr. Jasper, I urge you to come to the Peninsula area including Pacifica. Please bring Sonic.net here. https://www.sonic.com/availability Thank you. Sincerely, Luciano Nova.

We as Tooele residents are tired of the state looking at us as a dumping ground. We have a beautiful valley, we like the space, we are not looking for large growth. Our roads are not enough to support the traffic, and we don't have the water to support a prison. Just having the space is not the only thing to consider.

As a Penobscot and an historian I wondered how my ancestors felt as they endured the loss and destruction of their territory. Sadly, 190 years into this age-old clash of cultures, I'm experiencing for myself the deep sorrow and hopelessness. This latest threat to Penobscot ancestral territory has resulted in Penobscot Nation v. Mills, a federal court case that's sure to be lengthy and costly. The State of Maine needs to stop its ridiculous assertion that the ancient Penobscot Indian Nation does not include its ancestral waterways. Maine priorities should be elsewhere - not on dispossessing its indigenous peoples of yet more territory.