Pawtucket residents and small businesses have been dumped on long enough. We were not consulted. We had no say in this. Increased odor, rodents, traffic and environmental hazards are things that residents and small businesses ought to be consulted about but instead, the plan for this dirty monstrosity was pushed through secretly by Pawtucket's mayor.

This is a dangerous intersection, especially next to a school, fire station, police station, and town hall. A 4-way stop here will make it safer and will also help slow traffic through town and into the school zone.

For too long Californians have had to endure with wildfires burning down hundreds of thousands of homes and destroying people's lives, even though we have technologies that can prevent this. This petition calls for California's legislature to pass a bill that would invest in automated firefighting technologies to prevent these disasters from happening.

Joe Lhota plans to pack 80 - 100 more people into each subway car by eliminating seats. How is this overcrowding safe? Children, seniors, people with medical conditions or challenges need seats. Hardworking New Yorkers deserve seats. This is about safety- and quality of life! Safety and civility should be NYC priorities. Stop worsening the inhumane conditions of our subways -give us back our seats!

Sussex County is asking the public to offer feedback on a multi-million-dollar project to create a sports complex that would serve youth and adults in southern Delaware, beginning as early as the spring of 2019. County officials received a presentation by the Sussex Sports Center Foundation on Sept. 26, 2017, that envisions a new public facility – for residents and visitors to Sussex County – featuring soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, and touch football fields, pickleball courts, playground equipment, as well as walking and cross-country trails, just off Sand Hill Road in the Town of Georgetown. The complex would serve youth clubs, local schools, and adult recreation leagues, as well as the general public. Proposed as a public-private partnership, the foundation members have asked Sussex County to provide $1.5 million in financial support for the $4.4 million project, with the option to eventually take over ownership of the athletic and recreation complex. In addition to financial support, the project must receive land use approval from the Town of Georgetown. To learn more about the proposal, view the information packet at: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/PDFs/Sussex_Sports_Center_092617.pdf. To review the proposed site plans, visit: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/PDFs/Site_Plans_Proposed_Sports_Complex.pdf. To listen to the presentation to the Sussex County Council and discussion from the meeting, visit: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/audio/other/sports_complex_presentation_09-26-17.mp3. Sussex County Council encourages the public to comment on the project as the Council considers the foundation’s proposal. Members of the public can offer comment in any of the following ways: Email ([email protected]) In writing, mailed to: Sussex County Council c/o Clerk of the Council PO Box 589 Georgetown, DE 19947 In person at a future County Council meeting. Citizens can provide testimony in person at the start of any scheduled County Council meeting, held at 10 a.m. Tuesdays in Council chambers, 2 The Circle, Georgetown, DE. Note, public comment is limited to 3 minutes per person. Comments will be received through the month of October. Sussex County Council thanks the public for its comments on this unique proposal and opportunity.

Homeowners, business owners, architects and builders along with city staff have been working for over 2 years to craft these guidelines. We have gone through workshops, meetings, surveys and numerous opportunities to submit our concerns, suggestions and opinions. We have collaborated and worked tirelessly together to get this final result. Don't let the loud minority have the final say, sign this petition to tell Mayor Turner and City Council that the guidelines are ready!

I have numerous family members suffering. It is a humanitarian crisis. They are Americans and nothing should get in the way of helping them.

I am starting this petition because of the life-threatening situation in Puerto Rico. Every moment during this time of crisis is vital to saving lives. Without medical supplies, water, food and fuel Americans will die. I hope by coming together we draw attention and help Puerto Rican Americans receive the aid they so desperately need.

I am a Puerto Rican surgeon living in Massachusetts and a member of several groups of Puerto Rican physicians in the United States. I am writing this letter on behalf of physicians and the public health community to raise concerns and questions about the resources and planning for rescue and relief by the government of Puerto Rico and FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. While the damages sustained by Puerto Rico and the underlying vulnerabilities of the population and infrastructure are admittedly unprecedented, the lack of an adequately robust and organized response from the combination of the government of Puerto Rico and the federal government/FEMA is not adequate to prevent unnecessary mortality and morbidity. In the wake of several devastating US hurricanes in the last 10 years, including hurricanes Katrina, we have gained experience in what happens when the federal government response is inadequate in vulnerable, remote low-income and people of color communities. We are desperately hoping to avoid neglect of the predictable core needs of the Puerto Rican people. The following are some of our concerns: 1) Lack of comprehensive and distributed needs assessment and response. Puerto Rico has 78 municipalities. The disaster has greatly affected all of them, some much more than others. Some areas have suffered destruction of bridges and obstruction of main roadways, core government buildings and hospitals, and some are completely uninhabitable due to flooding. Many are likely to face critical shortages of food, water, shelter and medical care. As of Sunday, September 24, the governor freely admitted in a press conference that he is not in contact with 6 of the municipalities. Further, some of these municipalities are unable to access or communicate with whole communities within their municipalities. In the absence of clean water, food, shelter and medical assistance, this could immediately cause deaths. On an island that is 100 x 35 miles (the size of the state of CT), there should be no areas that are completely lost to contact on day 5. As the richest country in the world, the US has the transportation capacity via helicopters, vehicles, and ships, to reach all of these areas. If the government of Puerto Rico lacks the resources to adequately respond to all areas of the island, FEMA and/or the federal government should contribute the necessary resources to perform these core functions. 2) Lack of support for healthcare facilities. Via social media on a 1500+ Puerto Rican physician group, we have received several distress calls. We have heard from physicians that even in Centro Médico, a tertiary center and one of the largest and most critical hospitals on the island, the hospital generators were running out of diesel, the electricity went out, the hospital was running low on water, the staff and family members of patients were going without food despite days in the hospital. We are hearing of hospitals operating beyond staffing and physical capacity with no concrete plans communicated to set up staff relief, new temporary hospitals, and with no organized plans to send patients to the United States for care if Puerto Rico cannot address the demand for care. In this situation, physicians from all corners of the US are attempting to respond by arranging for transfer and care for individual patients. Many are trying to arrange individual travel or volunteer delegations to Puerto Rico. This is a credit to all the individual healthcare personnel that are responding, but it is shameful that we lack a coordinated response. This is a core function of public health response and the government authorities of the United States and Puerto Rico to provide adequate medical staffing to Puerto Rico in the wake of this disaster. 3) Lack of planning or communication of a plan for the healthcare needs of the island’s people in the aftermath of the storm. How will people in remote areas access medical care after this disaster? What alternatives to 911 can be established in a situation with no telecommunications? In our social media groups, we watched as hours passed as several elders were reported in remote areas to have severe medical problems including being unconscious, chest pain, etc, requiring medical attention and without access to medical transportation or in-home care. If a message can reach social media, surely there should be capacity in each municipality to address these emergencies. 4) Signs of medical distress in easily identified priority areas: shelters, nursing homes Why are we receiving distress calls from established shelters where there is no medical care? All shelters should have at least daily access to nearby medical professionals who can get patients appropriately triaged to care. If the capacity does not exist locally due to disaster conditions, the resources exist in the mainland US to deploy the necessary medical personnel in person or by telemedicine assisted by local volunteers. Elders and disabled people in nursing homes represent a high risk and vulnerable patient population. 5) Demand for Primary Care Many primary care locations were destroyed and personnel cannot reach people in distant towns who need medical care. Many people lost their critical medications. What is the plan to address these issues? Failure to address these issues now will mean emergencies and deaths in days to weeks. 6) Meeting Demand for Medical Personnel Will the government of Puerto Rico accept reciprocity of licenses from other jurisdictions in the United States? So far only DHHS and emergency management personnel have this clearance. Volunteers, telemedicine, and distributed response can all help address capacity issues. People should not die in Puerto Rico for lack of medical care when the capacity to meet their needs exists in the US. Further, Cuba has offered to send volunteers. If the US is unwilling to address the medical personnel needs of Puerto Rico, help should be a...

The American Citizens of Puerto Rico, some of whom are family members of mine, are in dire need of food, medical and sanitary supplies now!! The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, aka the Jones Act, no longer serves its original purpose. If the United States has ANY interest in the hurricane-battered people of Puerto Rico, it needs to remove this law off their necks....NOW !

There has been too many qualified Hurricane Harvey disaster victims being denied cash assistance with money that has been specifically donated to the Red Cross for Texans

The Recovery community needs access to supportive housing environments. These environments should have standards and have assistance from public funding sources.