Also against further paving are other locals and visitors to the mountain who appreciate walking or scenic driving on a dirt road along the northern edge of Fahnestock Park. We all admire our dirt roads and spend our money in town. We are concerned about the danger of more accidents from faster-driving on paved roads and the destruction of a cultural legacy of unpaved roads that brings tourists and investors to the Hudson Highlands. We very much hope you will respect the wishes of your constituents and do no more paving on East Mountain Road South. Thank you!

We cannot allow those in our community who have to work in this situation to suffer needlessly - perhaps they don't have anyone to watch their kids while school is closed, or they have to miss shifts to care for a loved one. In order to protect the health and housing security of our community, we call on Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature to act now so workers won't have to make that choice. Specifically, we call for a suspension of all rent, mortgage, and utility payments for at least one month to allow people to do what they need to in order to take care of themselves, their loved ones, and the community. Landlords also need to be allowed to take advantage of this, so that they can extend this to their renters. Choose to support our communities!

This is not a Democratic or Republican issue, this is an American issue and one that could define our country in the coming weeks, months and years ahead. We need our leaders to act and act NOW!!

The COVID-19 coronavirus is putting our families at risk, and elective social distancing is not effective. Bars and restaurants continue to be filled with people, which puts everyone at risk. In fact, many carriers of the coronavirus are asymptomatic and do not even realize they are spreading the infection to others. Whether we are aware of it or not, we could be passing on the coronavirus to those that are most at-risk—older folks and people that are immuno-compromised. Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, has made an estimate that close to 1.7 million people could die from the coronavirus in the U.S. if we don’t do anything to get a handle on the spread of this dangerous virus, not to mention the overloading of our healthcare facilities. Individuals cannot carry the entire responsibility of mitigating community spread and flattening the curve of infection, the government must step in and do their part. Governor Abbott needs to do what other governors across the country have, and demand that all bars, restaurants, and non-essential gathering places be shut down and workers receive compensation for their lost wages. People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake, and we must do our part in protecting our communities from this public health crisis.

We are desperate.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has ordered all nonessential businesses to shut down across Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh City Mayor Bill Peduto has declared a state of emergency and has ordered that all nonessential City employees stay home. However, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald refuses to take action. Thanks to Rich Fitzgerald's "fiddle while Rome burns" attitude, county employees congregate in places like the City-County Building and then return to their communities all over Allegheny and surrounding Western Pennsylvania counties. After being in the crowded, Downtown Pittsburgh environment where they risk contracting COVID-19 every time they take an elevator, they leave and spread the virus across some 1,000 square miles! How is this responsible? How is this leadership? Many people who catch COVID-19 will take up to 5 days to develop symptoms... but they will be contagious from the moment they catch it. Many people who catch COVID-19 will have mild symptoms... but they will still put everyone they come into contact with at risk. Who is at risk of needing ICU treatment for COVID-19? Who is at risk of dying from COVID-19? Our neighbors here in Allegheny County, that's who. That means cancer patients and cancer survivors... like the more than 110,000 patients per year treated at one University of Pittsburgh Medical Center cancer clinic alone. That means the 1 in 11 people in our county who have diabetes. Not to mention the 1 in 10 people in Allegheny County who just happen to be senior citizens! At this writing, county employees who guard the doors of our own City-County Building are not even enforcing the City of Pittsburgh's ban on keeping out non-essential employees! That means that firefighters, police officers and other first responders who already place their lives and health at risk to protect the rest of us cannot even find protection in their own workplace. Tell Rich Fitzgerald and the Allegheny County Council that it is time to start following the sensible example of the Governor of our state and the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and order all non-essential county employees to stay home until the pandemic is under control. Tell them TODAY! Make them do it TODAY!

With restaurant closures due to gathering COVID19 size gathering restrictions, restaurants are forced to opt to close or only sell food to go. That privilege is not available for wine sales. Restaurants, 'on-premise' can't also sell 'off-premise' - which is to say they can't sell wine from their storage to go out the door and have guests enjoy wine with their food. It is crucial for restaurants to remain operational during these new realities.

Porque las cárceles , prisiónes y centro de detención son lugares bunerables , si una persona detenida es infectado por el virus todos están expuestos a cojerlo , además de no existir una buenas condiciones médicas para tantas personas en los centro de detención

Vijay has resigned from City Council on his own terms and has stated that he will stay through the budget session. We need someone on City Council who is FOR the people. He will no longer be an active member of this community. We demand representation by someone who will actively be living in our community in the coming years. We also demand Vijay step down immediately and not be a part of this budget session!

During the COVID-19 crisis, we all have a responsibility towards our communities to keep ourselves healthy and avoid situations that can spread the virus. As of March 17th, the state of Massachusetts will close all bars and restaurants in order to help us uphold that responsibility. While this is a step in the right direction regarding public health, the effects of these sweeping business closures affect the livelihood of thousands of Massachusetts residents that rely on front-of-house restaurant work or tips to make ends meet. Without a plan in place to supplement the income of these workers, and with no guarantee that unemployment benefits will provide the relief people need in a city with one of the highest costs of living in the country, we demand a moratorium on rent collection NOW. Hard-working people are going to suffer at the expense of the greater good. While we don't deny the importance of instituting these closures, we would be ashamed and heartbroken to watch our government let people who rely on restaurant work face evictions, blows to their credit, or be backed into a corner financially through no fault of their own. As a part-time waitress, I am lucky enough that I only rely on tips for supplemental income. For so many of my friends and family in the industry, however, tips are their MAIN source of income. Simply providing people with an unemployment payment or temporary paid leave at minimum wage would not be enough to cover their typical expenses. We need Boston and Massachusetts as a whole to put a moratorium on rent NOW in order to preserve the livelihood of so many hardworking people both in the restaurant industry and in other affected industries during this time of crisis.

We need to reclaim our humanity, together, right now, once and for all in the history of our species! Universalist Emergency across the planet is being applied. The USA has the means and ability to show the planet how we begin the new world - we do not need another war against each other to come together against full economic collapse or even extinction. As our world is changing, the most creative thinkers on the planet are immediately influenced by this planetary crisis. It is now a revelation what humanity must do to handle the tidal wave of events to come and forever in the future. 10 years of this should help the whole species on every continent will have its’ first chance to design the world we all wanted as children and for our children. Allowing for these horrific world conditions to resonate psychologically, is horrific but with compassion through our very tight communication-information infrastructures of 2020, the economic relationships we have now, do not require us to repeat the history of the 1930's. I personally work in the corporate trade-show ballroom audio-video industry in Manhattan, NY, USA and all my part time scheduled work has been cancelled due to COVID19 terror. However, many people in my field have helped me draft this petition. We are the solution to this confusion: COVID-19 UNIVERSAL EMERGENCY [NOW] !

The establishment Democratic Party has nominated Joe Biden. But Biden can’t win the presidency without the votes of progressives and young people. How does he get them? He names Elizabeth Warren for VP. It's time to be bold, to listen to "the people", to NOT go back into the same old routine that people have gotten to hate so much. Joe Biden putting Elizabeth Warren on the ticket can unite the Party and win this country. Just name Elizabeth Warren as VP. Its the best thing to unite the country and we need a proven leadership managing government agencies and predicting crises. Warren does all the work. Biden steps up and runs with it. She destroyed Bloomberg and with that she created the chance for Biden campaign to rise up from the ashes. Biden is the nominee thanks to Warren. This petition is about the future of responsive leadership in this country, of not continuing with a status quo that has not been working for most Americans. We need structural change and Warren is the right sheriff in town to deliver