As a taxpayer of Hempstead, I am tired of paying high school taxes for a failing school district. The Hempstead School District has been failing its students for decades...a 37% graduation is malfeasance. This is due to fiscal mismanagement, and lack of accountability. Let's stop this cycle of failure. Our children deserve better!

Many immigrant children living in the United States are or were under the protection of DACA, but are now in the midst of trying to be deported. Many and most of these children and teenagers were brought to the United States as young toddlers or infants. If they were to get deported, this would mean sending them to a place they cannot call home; a place where they have never been, do not know the language of, and may not feel safe in. Protecting DACA would mean protecting these lives.

Robust primaries are the backbone of our democracy. In fact, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and I all challenged sitting Democrats – and we would have never made it to Congress if the DCCC’s current blackballing rule had been in place when we ran. The DCCC's unprecedented, tone-deaf grab of power is a slap in the face of Democratic voters across the nation. Voters are sick of the status quo holding on to power and stifling new voices. They are sick of D.C. politicians who care more about holding on to power than a true competition of ideas. While I respect the difficult job that DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos has, and want to keep a Democratic majority in the House in 2020, stifling democratic debate and punishing challengers is the wrong way to go about it. Right now, for instance, progressive Democrat Marie Newman—a strong voice for women's rights, the environment, and health care—is trying to unseat an incumbent in Illinois who has a conservative anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ voting record. Many allies are unable to support Marie Newman because the DCCC will blackball them entirely if they work with her. The DCCC's policy will hurt progressive mobilization efforts and democracy in the long run. It will prevent competition and stem the flow of ideas by trying to stop courageous candidates who want to challenge the status quo. It is simply undemocratic of the DCCC. We need to fight until the DCCC reverses this terrible, out of touch policy. Sign the petition today to show your support for fair primaries.

The YMCA is buying land in New Market Township for a camp, neither the state or county has required an Environmental Impact Study. Even though they will put 72 horse in a fenced 10 acre lot where acid from manure and urine will soak the ground and enter ground water, filling and maintaining a swimming pool for 300 people plus toilets and showers-which may effect the aquifer and last taking a small dirt road which runs through a natural watershed, where wild life exist and turning it into a bus and large truck road. This will require the changing or draining of a natural pond where the wild life comes to drink. The road may also cause a higher rate of drainage into neighboring properties. The impact of noise from vehicles and the change in air quality from diesel buses, trucks etc is also a concern to the bees and other wild life.

Our Demands: 1) We demand a meeting with the two Peoria County States Attorneys overseeing this case 2) We demand that Tina Gray be allowed to testify at the Grand Jury hearing. 3) We demand that Jack T. Anderson, perpetrator, be held accountable; charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a hate crime.

At age 12 my daughter had court-ordered visitation with her father after a long custody battle. He was given the entire summer. While in his care she was sexually assaulted by her stepbrother and verbally and physically abused and neglected by her father. She did not want to go to begin with, stating to her guardian ad litem. When she spoke on things she endured at the supervision of her father, no one would listen. She then decided to start recording. The magistrate refused to listen to the recordings or even talk to my daughter. My daughter's life will never be the same; she has been diagnosed with PTSD behind the traumatic physical, mental, and sexual abuse. Now my daughter is 14 and an order is in place for her to return to yet another full summer visitation, facing her attacker, now age 16. My child has threatened to kill herself or run away if she ever has to go back. I'm here to start a petition. If a 14-year-old can work part-time or schedule their own high school courses, they should be able to come before a judge and state why they do or don't want to live or have visitation with a non-residential parent, especially when in danger or fearing for their life. A child at age 13 can refuse to be medicated, a child at 12 can be unsupervised and seen as responsible enough to be left home alone. So with Sanyi Law, with proper evidence and part of the investigation, a 14-year-old should be able to voice their concerns and experience as with whom they prefer to live and have visitation. We the people are obligated to protect our children. The court system has failed my child; she has now been exposed to experiences that will forever haunt her. Sanyi Law At age 14 in the state of Ohio, one should have a say in who they reside with and be protected from harmful visitation and exposures, before a magistrate or judge makes a decision pertaining to custody matters. Thanks.

Vermont needs to allow ATVs access to the Missisquoi and Lamoille Valley Rail Trails to increase revenue in the northern part of the state. This will connect the ATV communities together allowing Vermont to have a interconnected trail system like Maine and New Hampshire. All ATVs granted access to the rail trails would have to have Trail Access Decal from VASA. If this is allowed it would increase community taxable revenue. Increase property Value and allow more Vermont citizens to enjoy the rail trails.

This Wednesday May 8, 2019, Gillian Chapman, Ed.D is leading the School Board to consider no longer offering 6th grade at Alta Elementary, ending a 108 year tradition with less than 2 weeks notice to the Alta Wyoming community. The board will make the decision at their Regular Board meeting on Wednesday, May 8th, 6pm at the District Office, 1235 Gregory Lane in Jackson. | This petition is a plea to the school board to honor this small schools tradition, rather than farming out our 6th grade education to the State of Idaho.

My teammates and I expected a just game, certainly our opponents from RE as well. Although we understand that referees can err, the evidence of the video shows that this mistake cost Hialeah the game and the path to the state championship. Sportsmanship and fairness should be exercised in all aspects of the game. Winning or losing a water polo game should be based on the team’s athletic abilities. The rules of the sport should be applied correctly. This situation must be resolved before May 10th., the date of the State Semifinals Championship.

You may have heard the recent news that Lake Washington High School will most likely not have English electives as a course option for the 2019-2020 school year (Creative Writing, Poetry, Film as Lit, and many more). Creative English classes are important to the student culture at LW since they provide a safe and engaging space for expression. Please help us show the school administration that we have a voice and an opinion in this matter!

Our son Scott is facing three federal felony charges for providing humanitarian aid to two migrants in the southwest borderlands of the United States. We’re asking you to sign this petition demanding that the US Attorney’s office drop all charges against him. He has been charged with two counts of felony harboring and one count of conspiracy for, according to the charging documents, "providing food, water, clean clothes and beds". If convicted, faces up to 20 years in prison. Each year persons fleeing poverty, oppression, and violence in their home countries make the desperate decision to confront Arizona’s western desert, one of the harshest landscapes on earth, in search of a better life. For many, the decision ends in a painful and lonely death in the remote reaches of the Sonoran Desert. No one deserves to die in the desert. No one deserves to go to prison for trying to prevent those deaths. The work of Scott and other humanitarian aid volunteers to alleviate suffering should be upheld as standards of virtue for all of us rather than punished by threat of prison. Help us show the USAO that there is widespread support for humanitarian aid work and that prosecuting our son is both morally wrong and politically unpopular. Scott’s devotion to his humanitarian work consistently inspires us. We first realized the extent of his commitment when we saw – as parents, felt – the pain he suffered upon encountering the bodies of migrants in the desert, and the deep sense of responsibility he feels to commemorate their journeys both as migrants and as human beings. That the USAO would seek to criminalize compassion and respect for human dignity is unconscionable.

We, the people of Priest Lake, have cellular service so inadequate as to render phone calls unreliable from April through October, and virtually unusable data. People have been unable to call 911, which poses a risk to both residents and tourists. We are resolved that this situation needs to be rectified by placing a second cell tower in the area in order to provide bandwidth sufficient to meet the needs of Verizon customers and provide the service we pay for.