I think a slushie machine should be added to Cleveland State University's Campus. Slushies are a popular drink for my generation. Going to Cleveland for school makes it hard to get these drinks we all love. We have to leave the safety of our campus and travel outside into the scary city world. If a machine was added on campus it could make money for the university and keep the students safe.

Mexico has already indicated that they are considering joining the International Marine Organization's (IMO) Marpol Annex VI Emission Control Area (ECA). Canada and the USA are part of the ECA. If Mexico does not join the ECA, it would discounts American ports’ competitive edge with respect to Mexico, as it will be less expensive for ships to deliver to Mexican Ports and to buy fuel from Mexico, and encourage trans-Pacific shipping through Mexico. Marpol will act to clean the air in the U.S., but if Chinese ships just move delivery to the deep water port in Ensenada, 70 miles south of San Diego, the pollution in the area will continue, and trade, including sales of oil, will just be routed through Mexico. Currently most ships us 3.5% sulfur bunker oil. It is estimated that 16 supertankers using this fuel create as much sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere as all 800,000,000 cars in the world combined. There are 100,000 ships using bunker fuel. The new international standard will lower the amount of sulfur in Marine Oil by 7 times to 0.5%, however, the ECA areas use 0.1%. By having all of North America part of the ECA, it greatly encourages all shipping in the north Pacific to use use the cleaner, 0.1% sulfur Marine oil in ships. Thus, having Mexico participate, helps shift the cost of global air quality clean-up back onto China, a huge contributor of air pollution at no additional cost to the U.S. tax payer. The USMCA (America First - Canada last) can allow Mexico a couple of years to get onboard (shipping pun), since the rules go into effect on January 2020, but it should be done as soon as possible. The agreement should be done now, as this is the only time that the Senate is likely to have leverage over the trade agreement.

President Trump, Twittering your thoughts and prayers isn't enough. Step up and make a real difference in the lives of Kellyanne and her kids!

Most Americans favor policies that would reduce economic inequality - for example, higher taxes on the wealthy. However, debate moderators are generally wealthy individuals who benefit from the economic status quo.

The HSP class of 2020 is upset that the traditional Senior Rome trip has been aligned with Spring Break, when it is normally done towards the end of the year. The trip has traditionally signified the end of the senior class' time at Holy Spirit Prep and this change deprives the trip of this feeling. It also deprives the class of 2020 of their senior year spring break. If the dates of this trip are not changed, many of the members of the class of 2020 have stated they will not be attending said trip, and there is a fear that a long standing tradition may not take place at all.

THIS YOUNG BLACK MAN IS BEING FRAMED FOR A MURDER THAT HE DID NOT DO!

I've been a resident of the Santa Cruz Mountains for 22 years. My wife, two children and I are completely dependent upon Highway 17 for work, school, and daily necessities; it is a fundamental part of our daily routine. While excessive traffic congestion and road closures occur frequently, it is especially worrisome during wildfire season, coupled with beach traffic, when we fear our ability to escape. The "Camp Fire" of last year should serve as an abject lesson of the importance of navigable escape routes.

Right now, Nowata County prisoners are being held in Washington County after a carbon monoxide leak at the jail in February. On Monday, Gibson ordered Sheriff Terry Sue Barnett to bring the prisoners back to Nowata. She refused and resigned, along with the entire sheriff's office. At first, Gibson seemed concerned about the cost of housing prisoners elsewhere. He stated that the prisoners being housed elsewhere could be “putting the financial integrity of Nowata County, perhaps, at risk.” However, he did not list any reasons or provide inspection results that showed the jail was now safe and fixed. He did call some witnesses in law enforcement to testify. However, some of the questions veered away from the jail and focused more about what the former sheriff did or said. “That was one of the most bizarre proceedings; I’m not sure what the judge thinks he was doing," said Paul DeMuro, the attorney representing Barnett. "No orders were issued. It was just his personal vendetta, attack, with no notice of what he was doing.” Throughout the hearing, DeMuro questioned the legitimacy of what was happening, at times appearing both visually and verbally frustrated. DeMuro said he was not told what this hearing would entail and that it seemed more like an “evidentiary hearing.” At one point, he told the judge, “I don’t know what’s going on here.” After the judge finished calling his witnesses, he asked DeMuro if he’d like to call any witnesses. DeMuro declined, saying that the hearing was an “ambush.” He even questioned the judge’s motives during the hearing, saying he was entitled to “cross examine [the judge],” and that he was “concerned about [the judge's] communications” with the witnesses the judge called to testify. DeMuro questioned the judge’s authority to control the budget and the jail, saying it’s the County Commissioner's job to do so. Judge Gibson argued that what he was doing was for the safety of the community. He said, “Anybody who tries to say I don’t have the authority to do it your move sir.” After about an hour and a half, the judge decided to end the hearing. The judge did not make any decision or come to any conclusions. Even Nowata County Commissioner Burke LaRue said he didn’t know what the future of the NCSO may be. “I don’t think we gained anything,” said LaRue. “I just know we destroyed this county.”

The most recent lapse in federal appropriations (2018–2019) shut down certain non-essential government services and forced some federal employees (e.g., airport security screeners) to report to work without pay. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the partial shutdown also irreparably damaged the US economy, reducing growth by an estimated $8 billion in the first quarter of 2019 (https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54937).

We support the University of California's effort to transform our current academic publishing system to one in which journal subscriptions include fees to fund Open Access for all research.

Because something must be done in the aftermath of the massacres in New Zealand, at the Tree of Life Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, at the Sikh Temple of Oak Creek, Wisconsin and the firebombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. These headline-making attacks are just a few of the many on houses of worship in recent years. Muslim Advocates and our partners need the FBI to take this threat seriously and devote sufficient attention and resources to understanding, preventing and investigating the white nationalist threat.

The shooting at multiple mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a white supremacist this past Friday, March 15, has left our communities reeling, deeply traumatized, and in mourning. In a society already plagued by white supremacy, Islamophobia, and anti-Blackness, political leaders like Donald Trump have created the necessary political and cultural environment for such horrific, deadly violence—both through rhetoric and through policies. Congress needs to take real, concrete action to dismantle Trump’s white nationalist agenda. One important opportunity to do so is by repealing his Muslim Ban. This tragedy is another important reminder that white nationalism doesn’t always manifest itself in mass shootings—it starts with the everyday dehumanization of our communities. And nearly all of Trump's signature policies are specifically aimed at keeping Black and brown people out of the U.S. Whether it’s the Muslim Ban, the racist border wall, detention camps, or ICE raids, this agenda is straight out of the white nationalist playbook—in fact, many of these policies were written by or in consultation with members of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate groups. Enough is enough. Thoughts and prayers from our representatives aren't enough—we demand real, concrete action. We demand that Congress repeal Trump's Muslim Ban.