I believe that everyone should be allowed the right to decent healthcare. As our forefathers emphasized, we all have the right to "Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" and I believe that being healthy and having access to essential healthcare is ESSENTIAL to these tenants of our nation.

The housing crisis in California has been brewing for a long time. The rents are too damn high. We will all be homeless soon if this continues. tThe elderly and disabled are the most affected by tis heartless cruelty. We need affordable, stable housing for all now! Housing is a human right.

My brother was arrested in Albany Georgia and we as a family feel as if he is being treated unfairly by the Georgia Department of Correction and Albany Police Department. We have all done things and made mistakes in which we can not take back but yet we do regret those choices that we have made, some of us has even been punished for those crimes such as my brother. Whether they was properly or wrongfully punished they was punished so for a judge or state to make a decision of someone freedom based upon something he or she has done in their past but has served time for already is wrong. What type of message is that sending the individual that just because you made a mistake once or maybe twice in your life that you deserve to be treated unfairly or like a dog because now you don't matter to society better yet the people who stood before you and fought for your freedom didn't fight for the freedom of a person with your mantality! How do we espect them to ever trust the justice system if the justice system screwing them over. To give my brother 15 years to life in prison is just a heinous system it's not like he murdered someone, no im not saying no punishment should be done but I do feel as if he has already given a lot of his time to the system missing out of his children lives and missing the death of both our grandparent don't you guys feel as if thats enough punishment itself. Imagine you making mistakes as a young adult because you had no guidence, no one to really teach you right from wrong so you turned to looking for that love and lesson of life from the streets so you get caught up in the moment but thankfully instead of being in a grave you was blessed to sit and learn your lesson in a facility. You learned to value life and never take it for granted more importantly you paid your due to society so why can't you be treated equally don't we all bleed the same blood? All my family is asking for is that my brother case be looked over and reviewed so a decison can be made in which he doesn't spend the rest of his life in prison.

The shameful smear attacks on Cynthia Nixon and her family are beyond the pale — and The New York Times is complicit in those baseless attacks so long as it maintains its support for Governor Cuomo’s re-election effort. The history of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and bigotry in our state’s politics is all too real for The New York Times to maintain its endorsement of Andrew Cuomo, who it acknowledged is almost certainly behind these shameful attacks. If The New York Times maintains it endorsement, it will signal to Cuomo there’s no serious price to be paid for engaging in this kind of hateful smear or trafficking in lies. They must withdraw and rescind their endorsement immediately, or explain why someone engaging in “the lowest form of politics,” as they themselves have termed it, is worthy of leading our state in the era of Trump.

As parents, we find it unacceptable that it takes The Spring Ford Area School District close to an hour to bus our children to the local catholic high school, PJPII, which is for most residents, less than 2 miles away. Many parents are forced to drive their children to school because of this inconvenience. We are taxpayers just like the parents of public school students. We should all be entitled to the same direct bussing schedule as the public school families.

NO, BUT ONE CAN'T SEE THE NEWS WITHOUT A TRAGIC GUN RELATED ISSUE

I was inspired by President Obama’s call to Action in this midterm election.

On July 9th, 2018, our father Abdoulie Sowe was detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) during a routine reporting to ICE office in Charlotte, he has been living in this country for over 25 years and had never committed a crime other than minor traffic violations. He has three children born in this country. He is a good and industrious father. He is head of the household and his sense of responsibility and duty is demonstrably reflected in the successful enrollment of my brother and me as students at East Carolina University. Our sister is at Harris Creek elementary school and performing well. Our father has a removal order from the year 2000. He has an approved immigrant visa petition from my brother from the year 2017. When he tried to get his case reopened in the immigration court, the judge denied his motion. Our father is sick, he suffers from chronic renal disease and was on dialysis for many years, finally in 2014 our mother was able to donate him a kidney, and now he is regularly taking anti-rejection medication. The first week he was there he didn’t receive his medication and that resulted in him being admitted at the hospital. If ICE gets there way and he gets deported I do not believe my father will survive. Beside chronic renal disease, he also has diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. In The Gambia he won’t have access to his medications or resources to stabilize his health, which will put him at risk for rejection and perhaps loss of his transplanted kidney. No one seems to listen or care about the injustice that’s taking place, my family and I are asking for your help. We need every signature we can get so maybe someone will stop and listen. Thank you

This road is funded with public money and we believe that it would therefore be available to the public not just to the landowners that border it.

On June 13, 2014, my significant other was crushed under a ten ton cement wall while working at a high school. During his 5 week hospital stay, a person from the behavioral health unit of the hospital came in and started asking him substance related questions. She did not give him any kind of informed consent. He had just been crushed and felt like he didn’t have any reason to lie. He admitted use of substances almost 7 years in the past. She diagnosed him with the worst substance diagnosis that is in the DSM IV and put it on his open medical record for every doctor to see. He didn’t understand that he had been diagnosed, had no recourse to protect himself, and the insurance company, adjuster, their nurse case manager, and their attorneys all got the information before he was even discharged from the hospital. This information should have fallen under Federal protections, yet it was intentionally violated to do as much damage to him as they possibly could. During his entire hospital stay, he told nurses that he felt like he was having a heart attack, he suffered a pneumopericardium, and yet no cardiologist was ever called in to evaluate him. He texted me, telling me he had crushing heart pain, asking me to get him out of the hospital and take him somewhere else because they weren’t doing anything. After he was released from the hospital, he continued to suffer from breathlessness, syncope episodes, sensitivity to light, heat, and sound, and numerous other complaints. Every doctor we attempted to see treated him with disdain upon looking at the hospital records. In March, 2016, he was sent for a pre-surgery EKG, which showed “old myocardial infarction, inferior heart damage”. When we went to the only cardiology clinic in our state, the doctor had just talked to the adjuster, and came into the room visibly shaking. He listened to my significant others symptoms, and then said “are you trying to convince me of something here, BOSS? I think you’re lying to get social security of workers compensation.” We were both upset and told him the visit was over. I looked over and realized that the doctor was not looking at the numerous abnormal EKG’s, the record of the pneumopericardium, or any cardiology records at all. He was looking at the substance diagnosis, which by that time, one of the substances had been in remission for over 20 years, and one had been 9. I went to pick up the record he was looking at, and this 60 year old doctor grabbed my arm forcefully through my jacket, leaving a handprint. A substance use disorder in remission is covered by the Americans with Disabilities act, and under the law a person can’t be discriminated against. The problem is, this is not being enforced. I went to the police to file a complaint. The police treated me like trash. When the officer went to talk with the doctor, he told the doctor that we were both paranoid and mentally ill. Even a person perceived as being mentally ill is covered under the Americans with disabilities act. The police officer is heard on tape laughing, telling the doctor he did nothing wrong. Two weeks after this happened, we received a letter from the only cardiology clinic in Alaska that my significant other was trespassed from the clinic, and if we spoke about our experience to anyone, we would be sued. They went one step further, and the CEO of the company wrote a letter stating that we were just upset that the doctor did not agree that he had anything wrong with his heart. We were upset that his personal, federally protected records were being disclosed and redisclosed without his consent. We were upset that he was obviously being discriminated against for being honest. (He had never presented to any emergency room in any kind of overdose situation, so this was completely self reported). I was upset that a 60 year old man would think it was ok to grab a woman. Interestingly, the insurance company sent them to an employer medical evaluation a month after this happened. The cardiologist who saw him said that it was a rare and serious injury. She was affiliated with the hospital who failed to diagnose him. She was paid thousands of dollars to create a report about all of the reasons why his heart injury was not due to his work accident. She had integrity and refused to write a report. We got a call from the Cardiologist's attorney a couple of days ago. He told me that nobody would believe that the doctor grabbed my arm, because the police didn’t arrest him. He told me that if I pursued this, I would be paying his fees when I lose. He told me several names to check out, telling me that he won a case against a man with paraplegia. He told me that he doesn’t lose, and nobody will believe me. The legal abuse, pain and suffering that we have gone through due to the illegal release of his federally protected records for the past four years in totally indescribable. No amount of money will ever fix this. Now, millions of people are unaware that the Senate holds in their hands, a bill which could undermine their right to privacy. Patients deserve autonomy. They deserve to have informed consent. The real stakeholders of this bill are the patients, who have no idea about what is about to happen to them if this bill should pass. This bill will allow physicians to profile patients even more if it should pass. I’ve been a patient advocate for many years. I’ve seen some things. Last year, my sister went to a rural hospital to have a large kidney stone removed. The doctor operated on the wrong kidney, repeatedly probing it, and not finding the stone. He sent her home and she started bleeding, passing large blood clots on the floor. She couldn’t stand because she was in so much pain. The doctor told her not to go to the emergency room, but an ambulance was called anyway. They found that he had damaged her good kidney. The doctor put her in the hospital and drugged her up for several...

I have been "harassed" in many ways by this deputy. He has constantly driven by my house or followed me with his lights off as I was following the law. I have many friends who can say the same thing. We aren't doing anything bad and he chooses to follow us around and constantly watch us when there are more illegal things to be focused on. He has targeted my family and my friends for as long as I can remember and I'm starting to feel like I can't leave my own house without him following us or watching us.

To hopefully legalize marijuana for recreational uses which will in contrast produce and economic boom in Shelby county and the city of Memphis as a whole with the rise of new business