Congressional staffers use the DC metro system to get to work, so they see the same ads as everyone else. Right now, as Congress is debating whether to cut SNAP, the DC government is running an ad campaign targeting food stamp fraud. The DC government's advertisements could have nationwide effects by swaying congressional staffers to think SNAP fraud is a bigger problem than it actually is.

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1. As reported just today, Zinke has been and remains active in funneling money to scam political committees that rip off elderly donors by taking their money and then mostly keeping it for executive and consultant salaries. 2. As reported just yesterday, Zinke’s friend/neighbor’s two-person company somehow got a $300 million contract to repair Puerto Rico’s electrical infrastructure. 3. As Secretary, Zinke has repeatedly used private charter planes, including a charter flight from Las Vegas to his Montana hometown on a plane owned by fossil fuel company executives, and charters between Caribbean islands ― all on routes where commercial flights were available. 4. Zinke concealed as a congressman from Montana that he’d been living in California, not Montana. 5. Zinke punitively reassigned many of his agency’s senior employees ― for example moving Interior’s chief climate policy expert to the royalty collection division; he also named only political appointees, including several ex-industry lobbyists, to a Department committee on personnel issues, ignoring that career staff is supposed to be part of the process. 6. Zinke, in a speech last month to an oil industry group, praised hydraulic fracturing, which has poisoned the water in communities across the U.S. and poses tremendous risks of gas leaks and increased global warming. “Fracking,” he said, “is proof that God’s got a good sense of humor and he loves us.” 7. Zinke has proposed to the White House that several national monuments be dramatically shrunk and opened for mining and drilling. 8. Zinke requires his security staff to hoist a special secretarial flag on the Interior Department’s roof whenever he’s in the building and to remove it when Zinke departs. In addition, as the Washington Post reported, “He has commissioned commemorative coins with his name on them to give to staff and visitors, but the cost to taxpayers is unclear.” 9. Zinke last month told an oil industry group that nearly one-third of Interior Department employees are not loyal to him and Trump. He might have been understating matters, depending on your definition of loyalty. Probably more than a third now think that Ryan Zinke is a disgrace.

In the District of Columbia, you can hold a job at 16, drive a car, pay taxes, be tried as an adult in court, but cannot vote. The 26th Amendment reads: “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.” This does not disenfranchise people under the age of 18 or prevent greater inclusion. Allowing 16-17-year-olds to vote in the district will give a voice to what is already a responsible and engaged portion of our community.

I am a father watching my son suffer from biased decisions ordered by the Family Court System.

I am starting this petition to make a small attack on racism. Black students getting suspended is the beginning of the school-to-prison pipeline. This is a small solution that can have a big impact because education is a big tool which if you lack is damaging. So if we can't stop students from getting suspended, let's stop the aftermath. Let's give them a chance to get a second chance.

Trump's plan to dispatch National Guard troops to the souther border is yet another cruel action blatantly intended to harass, intimidate, and hurt immigrants and refugees. Trump, and his administration, have consistently harmful implemented policies, ended protections and programs for immigrants, and blocked legislative solutions to ensure that immigrants are safe from harm and harassment. His ridiculous border wall remains massively unpopular—and his relentless focus on a wall ignores the majority of Americans who oppose it. This ploy to send National Guard troops to the border is his latest attempt to hurt immigrant communities. But he cannot do this without the cooperations of governors. Some governors—like Arizona's Gov. Doug Ducey and Texas's Gov. Greg Abbott—have said they support sending National Guard troops to the border. It'll take a massive outcry to stop them.

Some of the problems we had included wrong concepts. One of the problems we had for homework was miswritten, and oversimplified. This shows the ignorance that common core writers have towards learners.

I and other people interested in renewable energy are concerned and dismayed by the number of flying creatures being harmed or killed by wind turbines. In order for this form of renewable energy to be truly environmentally sound, we must protect these creatures!

I am disabled and after having years of sobriety, I was crippled in a car accident and am personally affected by this disease. Being disabled leaves me in a financial struggle to survive to obtain my treatment and be able to pay rent to have housing, leaving my life on the line every day. Suboxone also aids in pain relief, thus why I am a long-term patient. My best friend, whom I considered my brother, died at the age of 30 to this atrocity of Opiates, "the war on drugs", and our punishment style police state we live in! Addiction is not biased and ADDICTS ARE BEING LEFT TO DIE. Make Suboxone available to all opiate addicts! It does not get you "high" and is highly, highly effective in alleviating withdrawal symptoms, can be monitored and tapered down to become sober safely and to do so effectively.

We the people of Chico have experienced a recent five-year drought, extreme temperature rises, increased intensity of winds and wildfires while many of our state and local representatives are climate deniers. We are making a way for marginalized citizens who will suffer the most from devastating climate crises; youth, ill and disabled, elderly, women, indigenous people and people of color and low-income people. We need to make a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy by or before 2040. We cannot afford any more climate and science-denying non-representation.

As residents/homeowners/tenants/workers/parents of school children from the Lettered Streets area, we oppose the proposed use of 509 Girard for a low barrier homeless shelter. The city should find a more suitable location for these efforts.