Universal breakfast and universal lunch are needed in U.S. schools. Currently 1 in 5 children in the United States faces hunger. The undersigned demand that child nutrition programs in U.S. schools be expanded to provide universal breakfast and universal lunch for all school children. Every child in every school should eat every day--no questions, no stigma, no accounts, and no separate meal lines for children from low-income households. --In response to recent news that the Salt Lake City school district in Utah publicly dumped children's meals into the trash in front of them because they did not have money in their lunch accounts--the district having made a decision to humiliate children with money problems, and publicly throw untouched food away rather than allow the children to be fed with it; --in response to our congress voting to cut 9 billion in food aid to needy families, while families across the nation are still reeling from a financial crisis they did not create; --in response to the story of a Georgia bus driver, Johnny Cook, losing his job over publicly expressing outrage at a child going hungry in school, while the Georgia Congressional representative Jack Kingston publicly proposed child labor for impoverished children in Georgia schools; --in response to stories like Massachusetts' Coelho Middle School cafeteria workers, who made children dump out the food from their trays without eating, because they had no money on their lunch accounts, and many similar stories springing up across the country recently-- The undersigned are disgusted and outraged. We see an alarming public trend of brutal contempt toward child hunger. We demand swift action by our representatives to condemn and counter such trends from overtaking institutions like public schools where our children are cared for and taught common values. Most of us do not know a single American family, rich or poor, who would take food from a hungry child to throw it in the trash. Many of us are old enough to have been told that wasting food was shameful and ungrateful when there were starving children in the world. Those who sign here will not allow our children or our neighbors' children to be treated with such abuse and contempt. We will not allow one-fifth of the nation's children to go hungry. Those who sign here refuse to accept the United States as a nation of children facing starvation. We will not accept that our common taxes support the profits of agricultural corporations, yet neglect the needs of the generation we are trying to raise.

I am the Veterans Services Coordinator at North Shore Community College. We currently have 14 Veterans enrolled in school under the VRAP program for the spring semester which ends 5/12/2014. Many of these veterans count on the VRAP to subsidize their living expenses while in school. If the VRAP payments stop mid-semester, it would put many of these veterans into an extreme financial hardship.

There are still disparities in access to safe Bicycle and Pedestrian infrastructure for low-income and people of color communities like mine across the country. For example, bicycling and walking make up 12% of all trips, but over 16% of all fatalities. The fatality rate for Hispanic bicyclists is 23% higher than for white bicyclists and 30% higher for African American bicyclists. 71% of people of color agree that safer bicycling would make their community better.

When I was 8 years old, because my father was convicted of a sex crime with 1 victim for events allegedly occurring 25 years earlier, for which my father served 22 months, and for which he was awarded a Certificate of Rehabilitation 10 years earlier than 2007, 1 year before I was even born in 1998, the government for the first time began widely publicly identifying my father as a sex offender through pamphlet mailings. This action destroyed my childhood, as the government was fully aware it would, and from the age of 8 thru 14 when I fled the country with my family, I suffered severe emotional abuse from such government actions. Huge numbers of other children of sex offenders are still going through the extreme emotional abuse I was put through, destroying their childhoods. This is not even counting the ~22,000 minors convicted every year of sex offenses, some of whom are as young as 7 years old, some convicted for offenses like playing doctor. Some logical and rational reasoning needs to be applied to this.

I live 3 miles away from where these floods occurred in SE Travis County/Austin , Texas. I was not personally affected, however, these are my neighbors, fellow Texans and United States Citizens. I am asking on their behalf.

As Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) is the chief Democratic sponsor of a Farm Bill that would cut food stamps by over $8 billion. Her press release calls it $8 billion in “nutritional savings,” and even brags that the bill would make it harder for states to increase food stamp benefits for low-income people. She also claims the bill only stops “fraud and misuse”—although the food stamp cuts are twice what Stabenow first proposed to the Senate, when she voted against an amendment that would have stopped the cuts by curbing foreign agribusiness subsidies. Already, 1.8 million Michiganders experienced devastating food stamp cuts in the fall—and now these cuts would only make things worse. In Wayne County (the state’s largest county), nearly 30% of residents rely on food stamps—roughly double the national average. As a Michigan voter, please sign and send our petition to Sen. Stabenow—demanding that she not cut food stamps for the state’s most vulnerable residents.

The East Ward of Newark has suffered at the hands of criminals and it is time to do something. The residents, taxpayers, and business owners of the East Ward of Newark New Jersey need to stand together and send a message to our elected representatives that we will no longer tolerate being victims. It is time to take our city back!

We need to have sidewalks installed on Jamacha Rd (west of the 125 freeway) in Spring Valley for the safety of all residents in the area as well as school kids from Mount Miguel High School and Avondale Elementary School. Jamacha Rd has many pedestrians walking this street are forced to walk on the street to get to their destination. Cars travel at 40-50 mph on average, creating a very dangerous situation. The bend near Darby Street creates a blind spot, especially when pedestrians are walking at night.

TO IMPROVE UPON EXISTING DEFICIANCIES TO KAUAI'S PARAMEDIC STAFFING FOR THE NORTH SHORE. ONE ALS AMBULANCE TO COVER FROM KE'E TO ANAHOLA. NO ASSURANCE KAPAA MEDIC 23 OR LIHUE MEDIC 21 WILL BE ABLE TO RESPOND DUE TO THEIR ALREADY BUSY STATE. YOUR FAMILY MAY HAVE TO WAIT 45 MINUTES FOR THE NEXT AVAILABLE EMERGENCY PARAMEDIC STAFFED AMBULANCE TO ARRIVE.

The SLP City Council members need to hear from those of us who support the Connect the Park! plan in Minikahda Vista. The property owners on 40th St. have successfully petitioned against having sidewalks installed on that street. The current plan to install sidewalks on 39th St. is now in jeopardy, and Quentin Ave could be next. If we do not speak up, connecting the Park in Minikahda Vista may not happen.

This section of Milwaukee Avenue on the northwest side has long been used as a four-lane expressway, encouraging high speed traffic. According to CDOT, in the last five years there have been 970 crashes on this stretch, including one fatality and 17 serious injuries. The road diet would change the street to two travel lanes and a turn lane, plus protected bike lanes, which could reduce crashes by 30 percent, CDOT’s Nate Roseberry said at a recent meeting. Removing one lane for cars and providing a center left-turn lane will make the road safer and will not hinder traffic. Two recent example of this: a lane was removed from Dearborn Street in downtown Chicago, thru the entire length of the loop. Similar road diets on Chicago streets have already proven successful in reducing speeding. For example, last year the transportation department installed protected bike lanes on a broad stretch of Vincennes between 103rd and 84th, which often functioned as a de-facto four-lane street and was plagued by dangerous driving and crashes. The project reconfigured the street as two clearly defined travel lanes and a turn lane, plus the protected bike lanes. After installation, average motor vehicle speeds between 7 and 8 a.m. dropped from 38 mph to 32 mph, the number of speeders was reduced from 624 to 390, and the number of vehicles going over 40 mph dropped from 192 to 54. Studies have shown that traffic moves just fine on two-lane streets with center turn lanes that see 20,000 or fewer motor vehicles per day, which is consistently the case on this stretch of Milwaukee. The road diet will likely have no negative impact on traffic flow. However, because there is currently too much capacity on Milwaukee north of Lawrence, speeding is encouraged, which results in the high crash rate. Average motor vehicle speeds estimated would from 38 mph to 32 mph, the number of speeders would be reduced and the number of vehicles going over 40 mph would drop significantly. Reducing the speed and making the lanes available for slower traffic actually enhances and improves business for many of the small independent businesses in this area. People travelling slowly actually see the many business available - they don't see this when travelling at high speed and needing to keep their eye on the road. Other features of the project could include new pavement, traffic signal coordination to facilitate vehicle flow, and redesigned bus stops that will make it easier to pick up passengers without blocking traffic. An additional community meeting will be held this spring, with construction starting in late 2014 or early 2015.

My home is adjacent to the property in question. I am raising a family in this neighborhood. I am concerned there will be more traffic on our one way road, nighttime security lighting, extra noise, strangers in the neighborhood and lower property resale values. I also worry that the beautiful, historic old school property will not be preserved. Business does not belong in the heart of a family neighborhood or in the West Main Historic District.