Because we owe everything to our veterans who have given us everything.

I am a small restaurant owner with 40 employees and I pay a minimum of $10.10 per hour to my employees. One staff member came to us after working for McDonald's for 10 years. She started in 1999 at $5.50 per hour and worked long hours just to get by. After 10 years she had to work overtime just to bring home $350 a week, and had no life and was exhausted every day. Now that she is making $12 per hour, she doesn't have to work overtime and feels that her work is valued when she gets a decent raise. She is able to pay her bills and is not worried every week about how she is going to make it. Raising the minimum wage means that people have more money to spend, and they will spend it at stores in the 23rd District on food, gas, books, music, electronics, entertainment and services. When I pay my employees more money, they also spend it in my restaurant. Keeping wages low does not make my business run better when my staff are stressed and worried about not being able to pay their bills. Increasing wages does not make me fire people, it provides me with a stable and satisfied workforce and low turnover. Increasing the minimum wage both helps workers and reduces the need for supplemental government assistance programs like food stamps -- goals that people favoring smaller government should support. In fact thousands of families in the poorest counties in the 23rd district would be lifted out of poverty with a minimum wage increase to $10.10.

FreeRealms has affected the lives of many kids(and teens) in the 5 years it's been running. Being one of the few original players that has stuck around to watch it change and grow, this hits me pretty hard. Myself and quite a few of my friends wish to see FreeRealms be around for the next generation to bring them the happiness and comfort it brought us.

Because puppy mills are in every way animal cruelty!!

To let Supervisor Miley and any potential developer know we won't settle for a dollar store, park area or any other inferior project. We'd really like a brewpub, but our focus is having a business/merchant occupy the Daughtrey building that will enhance our downtown area.

I would like to get a raise. I make less than the proposed new Minimum Wage. And yet I am 57.

Adjunct Faculty make up 70% of the faculty at Colorado Institutions of Higher Ed. They receive ridiculously low pay and no benefits. This does not encourage the best teachers to teach. This is a glaring inequity that undermines our Higher Ed system.

Governmental interference is not a right! Tyrrany, even by our western allies, is still tyrrany! I would not want the U.S.A to say I cannot educate my children as I see fit. By condoning other countries, we are one step away from allowing this invasiveness in our country.

I Christopher Ludvigsen from Denmark have a dream of joining the US Air Force as an officer, but in order for that to happen I must first be a US citizen. I love America and always have for as long as I remember so I don't just want to join any military, I wanna join the USAF The process of naturalization requires me to have been a permanent resident and green card holder for five years; not only is this difficult but I would like to start my career in the Air Force as soon as possible. Currently I am residing in MS, USA as an exchange student living with a host family. My plan was for these people to adopt me and partition for my citizenship. Well; turns out that I the adoption has to have been completed before I turned 16 which unfortunately happened last August. Now all I ask is for the American government or whoever this concerns to look at my case and make a single exception and allow me to become a citizen somehow more easily. Maybe even let my host parents adopt me and after two years apply for citizenship. Two years that I would expect to spend in college getting my bachelors degree. All I wanna do is serve in the American military and have a good life in America. Thank you -Chris Ludvigsen

We see enormous amounts of money pouring into fundamentally unproductive but increasingly expensive political campaigns at the same time that we worry constantly about the national debt. If the contributors of large sums to campaigns are truly concerned about the economic health of our nation, they should be doing at least as much to address the national debt SUBSTANTIVELY as they are doing to help elect their favored candidates.

By making the 5th year program an optional year of US clinical training; 1) Students will be able to continue participating in an additional year of US clinical training where they can procure needed US experience and letters of recommendation. 2) Students who do not need additional US clinical training or letters of recommendation can enter their respective residencies a year earlier.

All Knicks fans have been effected by this. They way this team has been playing is an embarrassment and It All starts with James Dolan. He is the WORST OWNER in NBA HISTROY and does not care about Winning Championships and only about selling tickets. We need a New Owner a new General Manger and a new coach. How someone does not trade A leaving Carmelo Anthony is beyond delusional. So Please Adam Silver we urge you to FORCE James Dolan to sell the Knicks to Knicks so we can start from scratch and begin the rebuilding process. We are Die hard Knicks fans and only want what is best for our team. Hopefully you see this and WILL MAKE THIS HAPPEN!