COUNTY BOARD NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU A lot of changes have been quietly happening in St. Croix County, and then, after the fact, the people find out what's happened and it's too late to turn back the clock. The fact that the administration committee decided to list the Agricultural Services and Education Center for sale is one of those changes. After years of past county supervisors and others planning the perfect office building for FSA/NRCS and the extension offices in the center of the county in Baldwin, a committee of 5 people who live along the St. Croix River, just 15 years later decided that it would be something that could be sold in order to have money to pay for the County Market building that was purchased to house the Health & Human Services and ADRC offices. The citizens of St. Croix County were not made aware of this because on the county agendas it was just listed "Capital Projects." That doesn't give any indication that they were planning to put the building up for sale. In the past, referendums for other issues didn't count for anything. The county board didn't listen to the people. Now the people haven't even been considered. Even though a study had been made about the Ag Center just three years ago, stating that it was in the perfect spot to serve the users of the services, this was not even considered by the committee. They were just looking at dollars instead of service. Because an appraisal showed that the property is worth more than a million dollars, it was decided that's where the board could get some money to pay for their other recent purchase of the County Market building in New Richmond, not figuring how much it would cost to move them elsewhere and how inconvenient it would be for the people that use the Ag Center. The thought that they can work from their cars with laptops just does not make sense. The extension staff needs files and space and a place to meet and hold workshops, lectures, etc. The board originally started the fiasco by not renewing the lease with the federal offices that rent from the county in the Ag Center. Being they failed to complete the paperwork on time, the federals started looking elsewhere to rent. The county was getting $13 a sq. ft., but wanted to double that to $25. Even if they wanted to raise the rent a small amount, say even to $18 a sq. ft, it would be enough to cover the cost of the maintenance which is $55,000 a year. But they wouldn't negotiate, so that left the federals with nothing else to do but look elsewhere. So now if the federals move out of the Ag Center, there is no income from that building, just expense for upkeep. And moving the extension offices to the County Courthouse in Hudson, which is crowded enough, would be more of a problem and they would have to spend money adding on to make room for everything. The county still has a about a week in which they could initiate renegotiations with the federals, but they have to act on it now. So bottom line is: If it's not broken, don't fix it! The Ag Center is in the perfect location for the people it serves. The 19 board members are the ones who will make the final vote to sell or not to sell. The majority of the people who use the Ag Center are not in Hudson, they're on the eastern two-thirds of the county. There have been too many decisions made affecting people's lives without consulting those people that are affected.

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The Republican shutdown is a serious assault to our democratic form of government. For a small group of extremists to blackmail us to change a law, or to achieve some minority political objective, is not democracy. Republican extremism has impacted us all in this way.

The new national rule, 2.06A, that has just been instituted will have a negative impact on the upcoming mixed and women's/men's seasons. Leagues will fall apart and/or have considerably fewer teams, captains will resign due to the headache of finding players, people will not have teams to join due to the restrictions and teams not having made nationals will have to dispand because of various individuals who did make nationals. Lastly and most importantly, the USTA's mission statement is"To promote and develop the growth of tennis". Do you think this new rule fits into the mission statement of the USTA?

Urgent call to action. Help protect these children by creating Law’s Protecting our children in the Foster Care systems. These children have fallen through the cracks and NEED help immediately. STOP Children in foster care continued being placed with KNOWN pedophiles and mentally incompetent care providers who exploit, physically/mentally/sexually abuse, trafficking and murdering children.

To allow Doris Galloway request, petitions, and eventual demands to cease and desist demonic acts of persecution of her son and honor her God given right to her posterity and the authority that she, in Christ,commands.

TADA! makes arts programs accessible and affordable to NYC kids from all walks of life. We want them to feel safe when they easily access our facilities.

Walmart is not the right fit for Tinley Park. We think other businesses would offer more benefit and less disruption. Stop them from coming in.

Houston Park is a community park where our kids go to ride bikes, skateboard, scooter and play baseball. It is the only park with a flat surface. It has been taken over by street hockey players who are abusive and intimidate kids and parents out of the park each weekend. Many have been hit by flying puck including my son and the NYC parks dept. has decided to allow them to continue to play a dangerous sport and take the park away from the kids and community. This must end.

Passenger service in northwest Connecticut was alive and well until 1971. After the service ceased much of the area has suffered and become a modern day ghost town. Freight cars utilize the existing rails on a daily basis and this project is "shovel ready" and has been on the back burner in Hartford. Restoring passenger service would not only boost the local economies, but attract tourism, give families easy access to children at area private schools, and create a pathway to the Massachusetts line which has been funded and is underway. Let's fill in the gap. Toot Toot!!

As an anonymous researcher at the NIH, my experiments have been devastated by the shutdown. I keep hearing the stories from my friends: Months of work with cell cultures that require daily tending is down the tubes. Sensitive behavioral training and testing is ruined. Animals will have to be destroyed when we get back to work because, sadly, they will be useless as research models (imagine a partial-inducement of Parkinson's Disease in a rodent: what can you do with this now that it is not characterizing anything in the human?). Humans enrolled as research subjects--something that takes months of paperwork and coordination--will likely not return for follow-up testing because timing is critical on these types of experiments. The list goes on and on. As a post-doc, and after a long haul of education and training, I make very little money. I work every weekend and many nights, but I love what I do. I do it because I believe in basic science. It's one of the most noble careers, because for me, it represents a quest for truth. And I feel white hot anger that these elected "representatives" toy with federal funding like it's play Monopoly money. I'm just one story. But I know I represent the vast majority of government-employed basic science researchers who are sitting at home right now wondering what they can do. So I hope you will sign this. A voice of reason is only as strong as those that join with it. Please help me get a message to Congress--maybe they'll quit ignoring some of us on the ground.