Mr. Trump is a threat and imminent danger and threat to the U.S.A. His erratic decisions, tweets, and actions are dividing the country and leaving it open to a variety of international attacks as his decision to fire leaders and threaten elected officials, commending the actions of white supremacy to enact domestic terrorism against our elected officials- is more than enough cause for action. We the people request that Mr. Donald J. Trump, be removed from the White House and not be allowed to serve out his remaining days of his term. Additionally, we request he be taken off of Twitter and arrested for all of his crimes both before and during his presidency. We also ask that he be held accountable for all of the deaths of over 200k Americans.

We have all been experiencing limited exercise and social options due to the COVID-19. By not having lights at the elysian park basketball court it eliminates yet another opportunity of getting daily exercise and socializing. Hoboken loves basketball and almost every other court in the city has lights. With daylight savings darkness falls at 4:30 everyday. Putting lights in would make Hoboken more welcoming and allow many people to enjoy their daily life a little more. We see the benefits at Church Square Park where the courts have lights and residents of all ages benefit. Overall the choice to put lights in Elysian Park basketball courts would be a benefit to the residents of Hoboken at a time when we need it most.

Our children thrive on social interaction and learning from their peers. Dr. Fauci has said himself on numerous times it is more detrimental to our children to be out of school. In the best interest of our kids mental health and education we need to keep our kids in school as much as possible.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a time of extreme duress for most people. Transportation shutdown for months and is still not back to full service. People have lost their jobs, lost loved ones, and suffered breakdowns in physical and mental health.

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?