Cause the world needs to start appreciate those of us who have been working nonstop since March. If the unemployed was able to get a extra $600 per week for 5 months than it should not be a big deal to give a one time payment of $1,000.00 or even $600.00 to those of us who have been working nonstop since March.

Originally, license suspensions were used to promote driving safety by punishing and removing unsafe drivers from the road and thereby encouraging safe driving. However, the scope of license suspensions has expanded greatly. Instead of suspending driver’s licenses only where public safety is at stake, courts now use license suspensions as a tool for collecting this unpaid traffic citation debt. These suspensions make it harder for people to get and keep jobs, often start them on a path to incarceration, and raise public safety concerns. Ultimately they keep people in long cycles of poverty that are difficult, if not impossible, for many to overcome. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. People should make restitution and pay their debts, but we believe driver’s license suspension should not be the first step to trying to make that happen. Since 2015, the states of California, Mississippi, Virginia, Texas, Montana, Idaho, Maine and Washington, D.C, have passed laws discontinuing the practice of suspending a person's driver's licenses simply because an individual can't afford to pay the ticket in the time allotted. Surprisingly, the collection of fines in these states has increased, not gone down. What they've found is that if you make it easier -- not harder -- for people to pay, the more likely they will. This can be the practice in Kansas and with this policy change, we will be a safer state and one where our citizens can adequately contribute to the economy, since they will be able to drive to jobs where they can earn a reasonable income, and subsequently stay of state-supported services. It's a policy that only makes sense and it works.

He is a divisive person who couldn't care less about New York and he is only wanting this because Dr. Fauci threw the First Pitch in Washington DC.

This dual consultant/survey model is not new. It is the model that existed throughout the 70s and 80s—a model that resulted in such poor care, it prompted Congress to pass the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act. This law deemed it unlawful for nurse surveyors to provide facility consults, then turn around and write deficiencies and citations for advice that they, themselves, had given, due to conflict of interest. Although the CA Health and Safety Code (1417.3) allows nurse surveyors to provide instruction to facilities on occasion, it makes it illegal to provide instruction if it will diminish survey efforts. However, given the degree of facility involvement required of nurses per the new model, survey efforts will clearly be diminished, as there are simply not enough nurses in the state of CA to implement the new survey model and still have time for surveys and complaint investigations. The new survey model is redundant and represents an inefficient and wasteful use of government spending: nursing homes already have full-time Infection Preventionists on staff, CDPH has infection-control experts that can provide consults without it being a conflict of interest, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has Quality Improvement Organizations and Quality Improvement Networks that are already providing oversight and education on quality improvement . The new survey model is in violation of the Nurse Practice Act: the training has not been standardized, the new survey policy was not written by an RN, and Covid-infection control is out of the scope of practice of many nurse surveyors, not all of whom have the Public Health Nurse license required engage in control of communicable disease in the community setting. The new survey model is in violation of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics, which obligates nurses not to accept assignments that place patients, or themselves, at risk, or assignments that involve conflicts of interest. Since the majority of nursing home residents in CA are minorities, the new survey model stands to further harm a patient population that is already underserved by the healthcare system, by further ignoring the healthcare and quality of life needs of CA’s many Latino, African American and Asian nursing-home residents. Implementation of this new model will severely limit the ability of nurse surveyors to hold specific nursing-home administrators accountable for their actions, or hold the nursing-home industry at large for the motivations of a business that is for-profit, and thereby lacking in incentive to provide quality care in the first place.

With so many bikes, skateboards, and scooters on the roads, danger is there. Even damage to properties in rushville from grinding.

I believe the requested renaming would reflect well on the city in which my mother (Eleanor Strawbridge Mead Schlinger), I, and my two daughters (Eleanor’s granddaughters) were born and the school at which my grandfather (Rufus Mead) was principal when Mack Robinson and Jackie Robinson were students there.

We are literally fighting for democracy.

On July 16 Governor Kemp issued an executive order mandating that cities and towns could not create their own mandates on wearing masks and social distancing to protect their constituents. He then went a step further and sued the city of Atlanta for their mask mandate, going against the experts who have shown that masks and social distancing saves lives during this pandemic. This callous action attacks the health of all communities, and is a direct attack on Black people who are being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate. The Georgia NAACP has issued an executive order for all members, supporters, family, and friends to wear masks, stay distant when possible, and continue to protect our communities through this failure of leadership from Gov. Kemp. We stand with the Georgia NAACP in caring for one and other, leading by example, and defying Gov. Kemp by wearing masks to decrease the spread and destruction of COVID-19. If you need a mask or any other PPE, please contact the Georgia NAACP at [email protected] or 404-577-8977.

America is not my country of birth but it was always my dream. I was lucky and able to come here, get an education, a job, and my citizenship. I have always been proud to be an American but right now as I am relearning and re-educating myself on so much of this country's horrific history, I clearly see how the American dream is in reality a nightmare for so many people, a nightmare that they have been stuck in for hundreds of years. Enough is enough. Things have to change for the betterment and for the human rights of Americans everywhere.

We don't need Federal officers in camouflage and tactical gear in our Chicago streets with tear gas, shotting at mainly non-violent protesters, and used unmarked vehicles to arrest and detain protesters. The American Civil Liberties Union has called the behavior of federal officers in other cities such as Portland Oregon 'flat out unconstitutional". Federal authorities have no right to police an American city against the wishes of local leaders.

We, the undersigned community members of Amherst, express our support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the national struggles underway to end police brutality. Resources in Amherst must be reallocated to truly support our community and all of its members in a way that promotes public health and safety rather than policing. The council has spoken out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and racial justice, but words only go so far. A clear and concrete way to support Black lives is to immediately reduce the Amherst Police Department’s budget by 52%. This call is not exceptional: the Black Lives Matter movement has issued a national call to defund police departments, and major cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Seattle are already taking steps to do so. Policing only compounds public health crises and the terror of this pandemic, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and Brown People of Color, and homeless residents who are disproportionately affected both by the current economic and health emergency and by police brutality. Full list of demands: 1. 52% Cut to the APD budget ($2,677,892) - Cut $155,625 from APD operating expenses (amount spent in the past year on gas, vehicle maintenance, training, and uniforms) - Cut proposed increase of $108,683 from APD personnel line item (amount for step raises) - Cut $2,413,584 (50%) from the personnel line item, approx. 25 FTEs 2. Under no circumstances, should any of the $2.5 million set aside in delayed capital be spent on the police department. 3. Do not give any of the 80k set aside in the budget for combatting structural racism to the police department, instead spend it in a community-directed way guided by Black led organizations and community members. 4. Implement a permanent hiring freeze for the APD 5. Freeze all applications for state and federal funds for grant programs for the APD 6. Repurpose transferable state and federal funds already received for APD programs and return non-transferable funds 7. No money from the Town of Amherst reserves should be used for the APD and policing, even in the event of reduced state aid for the 2021 FY. The people are making their values and commitments clear; we ask that our Town Government do the same.

People are dying of COVID-19. Science matters. The truth matters. (I have been a member of Move On since 2003.)