Rainier Beach Community Club submitted a proposal for funding from the Neighborhood Parks and Street Fund, which has advanced to the second round in the selection process. To demonstrate community enthusiasm for this project, Rainier Beach residents need to demonstrate to the City of Seattle their interest and commitment for occasional and regular use of the outdoor exercise gym. Please sign this petition and show your support on Monday, March 21, 2016 (6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.) at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St, Seattle, WA 98118. A sub-committee of the Southeast District Council will be reviewing each of the eleven applications. We will give a 5 minute presentation of our proposal and testimony from supporters will be heard.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority provides safe, quality public paratransit through MetroAccess so that everyone can get where they need to go, like work, the doctor’s office or just to run errands. The staff is friendly and well-trained and the vehicle fleet is adequately equipped to provide a high level of service to persons with disabilities. But now, WMATA is considering contracting with companies like Uber and Lyft to provide these services to communities in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. This is concerning because neither company ensures drivers have adequate access for wheelchair-accessible vehicles. This partnership also may lead to the creation of a system that will segregate passengers into those with mobility challenges and those without—leading to a lower class of service for wheelchair users. The working conditions and regulation of Uber and Lyft also bring into question if they are the right fit to provide public transportation services. We applaud WMATA for making efforts to give passengers quality transportation options. Now, it’s up to us as riders to make sure the solutions it implements will work for all passengers, prioritize safety and promote good working conditions and decent wages.

Flint, may have opened our eyes, but the problem goes well beyond one city in the Midwest. Our aging and corroded water infrastructure throughout America is failing at an alarming rate.[1] And the stakes couldn’t be higher: the very water we drink. Thankfully, a bill was just introduced that would go a long way toward fixing this problem.[2] Take action now, and let’s convince our senators to support much-needed upgrades for America’s drinking water. 1. "Drinking water systems imperiled by failing infrastructure," Associated Press, Sept. 26, 2015, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5e1a4c0c661f4c6cb94d3b6b71e4a337/drinking-water-systems-imperiled-failing-infrastructure. 2. "Cardin bill would more than triple funds available to states for crumbling and polluted water infrastructure," Sen. Ben Cardin press release, Feb. 11, 2016, http://www.cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/cardin-bill-would-more-than-triple-funds-available-to-states-for-fixing-crumbling-and-polluted-water-infrastructure.

In a recent interview, Laura, homeless resident of Tent City, begs Rahm Emanuel to hear the voices of the homeless. Laura wants help for the homeless with housing, food, and employment. There are human beings, citizens of America, who are not being helped and are freezing cold. The deadline is as soon as possible considering this a pressing issue.

On February 17th, at a Community Leaders Roundtable, Salem Mayor Anna Peterson requested Congressman Kurt Schrader's help with getting approvals and funding for a 3rd Bridge across the Willamette in Salem. We need to send our Congressman a message: Mayor Peterson does not speak for us. We oppose a 3rd Bridge, and we don't want or need the Congressman's help to perpetuate this expensive boondoggle.

I commute from Silver Spring to College Park several days per week. Additionally, several friends and colleagues rely on the J4 to get from Silver Spring or points further east to Bethesda for work. Bus commutes can be challenging, and the NextBus service makes it much more feasible, especially in cold or treacherous weather and for persons with health conditions exacerbated by long periods waiting outside.

We, the undersigned residents of Bloom Township, oppose the approval of the certificate of need application requesting an expansion of the St. James-Olympia Fields Hospital until provisions are made to retain emergency room services and 24 hour access to care for the needy at the St. James-Chicago Heights Hospital campus.

Inconsistent enforcement of parking and street sweeping, and a lack of regular police presence in the Melrose/Fairfax District, have contributed to double parking and traffic congestion, late-night street parties, drug dealing, solicitation and sideshows — leaving our neighborhood streets unsafe and impacting local businesses and residents. With this petition, we request that our city council members ensure the services and improvements listed below are provided consistently to the area and that their impact on increasing neighborhood safety be monitored and evaluated at least three times over the next six months. We request: 1. Consistent enforcement of current parking laws 2. Regular police officer foot or bike patrols, especially between 4 and 10 p.m. 3. Regular street sweeping and signage indicating what days street sweeping takes place 4. Installation of missing parking signs on Foothill Avenue between Vicksburg and Fairfax Avenues 5. A follow-up meeting with representatives from the Oakland Police Department, the Public Works Department, and Melrose High Hopes neighbors to ensure a plan of action is quickly developed, implemented and monitored.

Every security transaction shall include a 1/2 of 1% tax to be paid to the U.S. Treasury. PETITION BACKGROUND: Bernie Sanders, National Nurses United and Ralph Nader propose a turnover tax on sales of stock, bonds, derivatives, commodities. The revenue to the federal government is estimated at from $350-500 billion a year.

Because as a individual that believe's that his and especially his daughter's rights were violated and believe's federal laws were broken by specific people of the Caldwell County Department of Social Services. And I am being met with closed doors, every where I turn.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MARCH 2016~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you so much for all of your support! Our mission is to spread awareness against classism on campus by emphasizing the student need for this pantry -- as many other liberal arts campuses have free food initiatives and closed systems with food "waste" -- we should have this included in our structure as we promote ourselves as a campus that is accessible to many types of students. Although it is too early to declare victory, and we will continuously work on sensitively spreading awareness about the initiative and marginalized narratives related to food insecurity. We have gained institutional support and revved up the process, and expect to have the pantry set up as soon as right after Spring Break. Today we will have a meeting with some people who manage food on campus (the SUB, Diversions, and the Cellar) and tomorrow will be working in the space that we are most likely to use to help ensure that we can use it. At the same time, we're working on finding plans B and C etc. for space in case there are more roadblocks. Please read about the pantry in the newest issue of the Trail and stay tuned for more updates about the project, where to find it, and when it will be open. Keep checking the UPS Garden facebook page for updates too! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FEBRUARY 2016~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We, the UPS garden and allies, want to localize our campus's food salvage programs, which donate the diner's leftover food to food banks in Tacoma, as well as give out produce from the garden to the public for free in a more systematic and accessible way. Please sign this petition so we can show the institution that this initiative represents the beliefs of the student body. There are hungry members of our community, students and non-students, who need free food. When we've given DCS the garden's produce, they have re-sold it to students. The garden is open to the public all the time, but we need to strengthen our initiative for free food -- which shouldn't be in opposition to the university, but right now seems to be. Last semester at the student market we raised about $60 in hopes of simultaneously being able to get institutional support for a food pantry on campus. We are no longer searching for institutional support to initiate the mission but rather want to go ahead as soon as possible. If this is not an effective way to implement change in the institution's mind, it can, at least, help us defend ourselves once we get the food pantry started either way (hopefully soon -- this will be by word of mouth as to protect the resource for now). Spread this petition -- we are ready to set everything up and want to give out more free food in a more efficient way ASAP.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is planning to spend $3.3 billion taxpayer dollars to add express toll lanes to I-275, I-75 and I-4 in an effort to reduce congestion. But FDOT has acknowledged that the express lanes alone won’t solve congestion and will significantly increase traffic. The surrounding community is also fiercely opposed to the project as it would result in demolishing historic homes, businesses, community centers and parks. At a time when we are strapped for transportation cash, our existing roads and bridges are crumbling and transportation trends are changing, we must reorient transportation funding away from wasteful highway expansions and toward the repair of existing roads and bridges. At the same time, we must make critical investments in other transportation options, such as transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects, to meet Florida's current and future transportation needs. Tell Governor Scott to halt this wasteful highway boondoggle. Add your name.