In 2016, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced a plan to increase daily trips on the Amtrak Hiawatha line from Chicago to Milwaukee. Their plan includes a proposal to build a new 2-mile long holding track in Glenview to help facilitate the flow of freight trains in and out of nearby freight yards. The plans were announced in an official planning document called an Environmental Assessment (EA). But the EA only included information about the impacts of increasing Amtrak trains. None of the health, safety and environmental impacts of the proposed freight train holding track were addressed. The Glenview ACTION (Alliance to Control Train Impact on Our Neighborhoods) Committee was formed to demand that the significant impacts of a freight train holding track are studied before the project is built.

This year’s bee die-off numbers are out, and the news isn’t good. Bees are still dying at alarming rates. And it’s largely due to bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. If we want to stop the massive bee losses, we need to get these pesticides out of our food system. Kroger plays a key role in this fight. It could stop selling food grown with toxic pesticides. But we need YOU to help make that happen! Add your name: Demand that Kroger takes action on toxic pesticides NOW!

So, imagine with me that YOU are sitting in your hot car at over 100 degrees for several hours a day and for days on end (I dare you to try it). This is the reality of over 130,000 people within the TDCJ system. The inhumane conditions of lacking proper ventilation and temperature control within the TDCJ is a form of Torture! TDCJ continues to allow people to suffer in heat indexes of up to and over 149°F, as reported by the Hutchins Unit on July 19, 2011. The temperature log of a TDCJ unit documents temperatures ranging from 117°F to over 149°F. Now imagine you are the Mother, Father, wife, Husband, or child of someone who is suffering; what would you do about it? Here are a few examples of reports that Texas Prisons' A/C Advocates have received from families and people on the inside: “My son called me earlier around 7-ish. He said it's so hot, mama. This breaks my heart to the core.” “He said it feels like you are cooking in there!” “My son tells me it's so hot he puts water on the floor 'n lays down on it. He also wets his towel 'n puts it over his head 'n it drys up so quick cuz of the heat” “..in the dinner line or lunch line and when u sat down to eat sometimes they close u in with no fans going and no air conditioning at all with about 50 to 100 inmates plus how hot the kitchen is from cooking. It's like suffocating.” “He said the heat in there is extremely overwhelming and it’s hard to even breath. He’s a young man (24) and healthy …. He has already lost 7 pounds since first of May.” “..he says the cells are just heat boxes. When he wets a towel, it dries up in minutes. “…it was extremely hot in the dorms, I remember laying on the floor with no shirt on just in my sports bra just to get cool. Some ladies would get their sheets wet in the shower just to stay cool.“ Yet, despite several deaths, a plethora of media reports, wrongful death lawsuits filed, and complaints from family members and union officials for well over 18 years, TDCJ is still refusing to take basic steps to provide humane conditions for the people in their care. It seems reasonable that if TDCJ has money in the budget to replace its aging swine-production facilities with 6 new climate-controlled modular barns, at a cost of $750,000, surely they could treat people better than pigs. Surely, we can treat human beings at least as well as the pigs and dogs. This unconscionable behavior of allowing people to be tortured by deadly heat conditions must cease. What are we asking for? The same conditions that The Texas Commission on Jail Standards already requires. Every county jail needs to maintain internal temperature stays between 65 and 85 degrees. Other states with hot climates, such as Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, air condition their prisons, and even the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is air-conditioned. By the way, did you try the Hot Car dare? Texas Prison A/C Advocates (TPAA)

To rid African Americans of the terms that have affected them due to misunderstanding and or racial identity such that it conflicts with the natural right to claim ones ancestry.

This past summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump's Muslim Ban—giving the green light to an administration that has made xenophobia, racism, and anti-Muslim bigotry its official policy. With the Court steadily being packed with radical right-wing judicial operatives like Brett Kavanaugh, it's time for Congress to take action to undo Trump's racist agenda. From putting migrant children and adults in internment camps to defending violent white supremacists, Trump is out of control. He spews racist, xenophobic language and pushes dangerous policies to exclude people of color from the U.S. Meanwhile, the Ban continues to permanently block nationals and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries from coming to the U.S.—based on nothing other than Trump's bigoted campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Just because Trump and the Roberts-led Supreme Court think it's OK to discriminate against people based on how they worship or where they come from doesn't mean it should be the official policy of the United States. Congress has the power to defund Trump's Muslim Ban and they should do so immediately. The bills, H.R. 4271 and S. 1979, would prohibit the use of any funds or fees to implement Executive Order 13780—the third and most recent iteration of Trump's Muslim Ban. #NoMuslimBanEver

2126 Mayport Rd Autoline continues to park their cars on the sidewalk, causing a safety hazard for our community. 2152 Mayport Rd building half torn down, condemned but still being used for commercial purposes. City code enforcement police force refused to enforce city codes or the law. Our city councilman refuses to accept that there's a problem.

A bill was introduced and passed both California Houses that required any candidate running for President to provide five years income tax filings. Every candidate since Nixon has voluntarily provided this transparency to voters. Although vetoed by Governor Brown, this initiative should be attempted again under the next California Governor.

To show the Maryland VA that there is a need for a permanent Veteran's Service's office and eventually a Veteran's Healthcare Clinic in Queen Anne's County

I'm an American that wants my freedoms and my country back and believe others feel simular no matter what party. We are the West and less easily fooled. Let's go get him and sue him. Obama was for the people and all people with great respect and LOVE for our dear country.

My family became homeless June 9, 2017. Our roof was damaged in a severe wind/hail storm August 5, 2015. After filing an insurance claim one vehicle was paid and we told roof was fine. After two years of being extremely sick and almost near death we found out why. Water leaked through the damaged roof down the wall cavitatys in our children’s bedrooms. We couldn’t see it, smell it, nor had any idea it was there. After a second claim with the insurance for fungi/bacteria coverage we pay for, begin the longest two years. One engineer who said no active/dormant mold, a second engineer who came up with a completely non related reason and photoshopped the pictures in the report (left the blending tool in a few pictures), we hired our own company. Levels so high that a company do this kind of testing had never seen in twenty five years. The day we became homeless with nothing but the clothes on our backs but finally the answer to our health problems. Not a single community action program, state department, or federal department would help us. Why? No guidelines for unhealthy/healthy mold levels and human health! We were literally left out in the cold paying a mortgage for a home we have watched slowly fall while battling it out! We are no different then fire victims! If there were federal and even state guidelines we could’ve been declared a disaster just like a fire victim and received some gudieance as what or where to go! Instead we’ve been threaten to have our children removed from our care because we live in a camper in our back yard, consistently harrassed by our county officials even trying to do the right thing and obtain a special permit for our camper and to be able to live in it. And failed by every state department that was designed to protect us from situations like this. We must have guidelines and it’s a huge issue all across the nation!

I’m a long suffering Met’s fan and I’m tired of supporting a team that has no interest in winning. They are always looking for the cheap way out at the expense of the fans.

On April 6, 2017, The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and with most Holly Hill residents the town hall as ever seen, gathered for a town hall meeting. At the meeting, Holly Hill residents, pastors, teachers, etc, gathered to express their disapproval of the placement of the SCV’s Confederate Flag and memorial components. Ronald “Irvin” Shuler of Providence, SC donated the land to the SCV. Although he’s not a resident of Holly Hill, he has friends/associates located in Holly Hill; meaning he’s familiar with the town’s high population of African American residents. Despite the disapproval from the towns residents and leaders, Jamie Graham (Commander) and the 7th, 8th and 10th Brigades of the SCV erected the Confederate Flag and other memorial components on June 16, 2018. Days later, June 21, 2018, the sign was vandalized. If the Confederate Flag and all of its memorial components remain in Holly Hill, SC, our once small peaceful town will increase in violence and racial tensions amongst Africans Americans and White residents in Holly Hill, SC. This flag was placed in Holly Hill, SC without thought or care about the quite obvious tension it would cause because of its history. Although small, a peaceful march to remove the flag started the morning of June 23, 2018. Three African American women were verbally assulted by white men. If this Confederate Flag and all of its memorial components are not removed from the town of Holly Hill, racial divide, racial tension, violence and crime will increase. The town of Holly Hill is also the home of 2 of our Orangeburg Consolidated School District 3 schools; Holly Hill Elementary (located feet away from the SCV flag and memorial site) and Holly Hill Middle School. Its also the home of Holly Hill Academy (located less than 5 miles away from the SCV flag and memorial site). If violence were to break out in our small town, our youth will be the first ones affected. We’ve seen the violence that took place in Columbia, SC with the removal of the Confederate Flag. Just imagine that level of violence happening in our small town and so close to our youth. To our Mayor, William Johnson and Holly Hill Town Council, our State House and Senate Representatives and our Governor, Henry McMaster. The residents of Holly Hill, SC need your help in removing the Confederate Flag and all of its memorial components.