The City of Kingston and Ulster County need real living wage jobs. We see development after development granted pilots and tax breaks while offering low age retail and service industry jobs. The people who work in the businesses in our tourism driven area do not pay the ever increasingly high rents while they struggle to afford healthcare, pay students loans, keep up on car payments and other bills.

Workforce housing in Kingston needs to stay where the work is, in the heart of the City of Kingston because the working class is the heart of the City of Kingston. They need to stay where they are.

We have seen an abuse of power through a partnership of state, county and city police departments, at the behest of Mayor Steven Noble, blatantly violating the constitutional rights of Kingston residents through intimidation and illegal stop and frisk tactics. County and State police have been witnessed riding the same police cars. Individuals and families have suffered abuse, re-traumatization and humiliation at the hands of these police departments through illegal searches of cars after stops for minor issues such as broken tail lights and other minor offenses that do not warrant a search.

700 Iraqi’s were killed since October 25th, 2019 Innocent lives being killed in Iraq when the message to the Iraq Government is Peaceful. Iraq needs our help ASAP

For all rapes reported to police, only 34.5% are cleared by arrest, and even fewer actually lead to convictions. This is an alarming number given the fact that approximately 20% of women in the U.S. have experienced an attempted, or completed rape in her lifetime. According to aggregate data, for every 1,000 rapes, nearly 38.4% are reported to police, and only 7 result in a felony conviction. Given the disparity between the occurrence of rape, and the number of rape cases that result in conviction, it is apparent the system is inadequate at providing justice for victims. While the numbers are vague, experts estimate 200,000, or more rape kits are lying, unsubmitted in police departments all over the U.S. According to the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidency Policy and Funding Committee, there are 6,000 untested kits in Maryland. Not only does this impede the justice system’s ability to prosecute offenders, but it leaves victims tragically unvindicated. By these rape kits going untested, rapists remain free and justice is not sought out. Legislation will allow for offenders, especially serial rapists, to be arrested and convicted, giving survivors the justice they deserve. With this legislation in place, Maryland will be able to do our part in ending the backlog of rape kits. For too long, the voices of the raped and assaulted have been silenced by being relegated to the back of an evidence room.

If Trump is re-elected, many more people will die. If Biden is elected there will be a Federal response to the pandemic that will be based in science and thereby effectively save people that Trump's malignant neglect will condemn to death. Your current position on the Task Force leaves you beholden to the President and forces you to blunt your warnings to the American people. But as in other epidemics, silence = death! As directed by the Hippocratic oath, by basic ethics, and by your evident compassion for the plight of all peoples, you cannot continue in this compromised position. You can't control Trump, but plain speaking directly to the American people will save thousands of lives. We call on you to resign and speak your mind plainly and without equivocation.

UPDATE: The recent school closure and then the announcement that schools will reopen with the aim of phasing out hybrid makes it even clearer: Remote-only families deserve another opportunity (or more than one) to make decisions best for their children based on new information. It's absurd to hold families to decisions made in mid-November as the landscape was so rapidly changing. We all know this school year is unlike any other. Parents, guardians, teachers, administrators, staff and city leaders have to work together to make it work. However, the announcement that families could only opt into hybrid learning over during one period in November was counter to that spirit of collaboration, and to all the communications families had been basing decisions on. Families had been told there would be multiple periods to switch from remote-only to hybrid. This had helped families make balanced decisions — about what they are comfortable with for their family's health, what works for their child's particular learning style, and how their plan relates to the reality of covid infections. Forcing families to choose in November -- while rates were rising and on the eve of schools being shut down -- ran against the promises made and against plans families had made. It meant placing bets for the rest of the year based on fast-changing information -- with our kids' education at stake. And it meant asking all of us to put faith in a system that is showing no reason for us to believe it can maintain its commitments. What is being offered in terms of instruction, safety, care for our kids' development is so uneven school to school -- and, as the chancellor has shown, may keep changing. We all agree that remote schooling needs more attention and resources. But changing plans and rushing families doesn't solve that. We need to focus on resources for all students: More teachers, more support for technology, more staff that attends to social-emotional development, more nurses. Last-minute changes forcing rushed decisions isn't a good foundation for that work.

The election will (hopefully) establish political accountability for the administration's exceedingly negligent, stupid, reckless policies. However, for the future of responsible governance, it is important that accountability go beyond the political (electoral loss). It is pedagogically important that people see that this administration’s management of the Covid crisis is akin to that of a reckless speeder who causes accidents as he/she barrels down the road to get to someplace, no place fast. My purpose here is pedagogical: promote the idea of holding our elected officials to (at least) minimal standards of responsible behavior and governance. Would such careless, wanton sacrifice of lives on a battlefield not go unpunished by military justice?

We alumni, faculty and current students of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, wish to make it known that we believe that medical science conflicts with several claims made and opinions expressed by Scott Atlas, class of 1981. At Pritzker, when we shift from lectures to clinics, a White Coat Ceremony is held, emphasizing honesty, integrity, ethics, compassion, and scientific rigor. These values are instilled in us throughout our tenure in medical school, and without them it seems one would neither be admitted nor permitted to graduate. For this reason we are shocked and dismayed to see an alum acting in such a way as Dr. Atlas. We do not support his policy recommendations that he says are backed by science. It is difficult to come to a positive conclusion about his motives when his incorrect statements fall so directly in line with a president that flouts science on a regular basis. Specifically, based on current scientific data, we support: 1) The use of masks to decrease the spread of SARS-CoV-2; 2) The use of extensive testing/tracking/surveillance strategies as a way to track COVID and prevent spread; 3) The closing of schools, institutions, or communities in cases where the spread exceeds the ability of the hospital system to care for those falling ill; 4) The use of personal and community-wide measures in addition to vaccines (if approved) to control spread as opposed to allowing spread without such measures. In all, we feel abandoned by our colleague, who is spreading false information to the world through the willing platform of news agencies and the president. We seek a future where science will stand for itself, unpoliticized, for the greater good of the people. Sincerely, The Students, Alumni and Faculty of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

All Ohioans deserve the truth and what the governors end game is.

I have been in quarantine ever since I found out I may have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus by Donald Trump, his family, and his staff, at the first presidential debate. I have had to confront the reality of the coronavirus both in attending the debate and in my own personal life with the passing of my father, and it’s the continued negligence and heedlessness of the GOP that has left me and my loved ones in this predicament. My father is one of the 210,000 people who has died because of Donald Trump and the GOP’s improper handling of the coronavirus pandemic. I refuse to allow these people to continue to be so thoughtless and negligent with people’s lives. I know firsthand how dangerous this virus is, and I am certain that anyone that has been exposed to it must follow CDC guidelines for quarantining and tracing. And yet, Instead of prioritizing the health of Senators, staff, and employees of the Capitol, Mitch McConnell and GOP Senators are pushing forward with hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett without any required testing. This is all during a potential coronavirus outbreak in the Senate during a global pandemic. In just the past two weeks, Utah Senator Mike Lee, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, and North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis have all tested positive. Not only that, more than 30 senators attended meetings, fundraisers, and massive rallies without masks, and it is glaringly obvious that COVID-19 is spreading among the White House and Republican political community. We cannot risk more lives in the ruthless pursuit of political power. The priority for the GOP should be to minimize and contain the impact of a White House and Senate coronavirus outbreak, rather than using this moment to push forward a power grab for the Supreme Court ahead of election day. Mitch McConnell and the Senate must investigate the scope of the outbreak and protect the health and safety of government officials, their staff and constituents, and the country as a whole. While anyone can be susceptible to infection, the disregard for masks and distancing by Republican leaders has intensified the spread and put their ability to govern at risk. Schools, businesses, and communities across the country are taking greater precautions to try to confront this pandemic—the Senate must do the same.

The official ruling on the field was Intentional Grounding, after the QB had obviously fumbled the ball, then proceeded to throw the ball backwards.