In the old days it was called "Bait and Switch." Facebook enticed 25 million small businesses and nonprofits to use Facebook Pages for free but now drastically limits how many people see their posts unless they pay to promote or "boost" them at a rate that's too high for many of us to afford!

No pay for Congress during the government shutdown, even retroactively. A $10,000 fine per day of the shutdown, for each member of Congress, should bring the government back in business.

Whensoever Congress shuts down payment for the armed forces and all other U.S. government employees and contractors, they shall immediately be deprived of their own salaries, staffer salaries, and all operating budgets until such time as the United States is funding its operations again.

City Council VOTE Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025    Dear Members of the City Council: The 2025 FLUM Amendments are the most CATALYTIC, needed, important, public policy decisions that you may vote for that brands New Orleans East as Open for Business!! Buyou Art Lofts Mission Statement: Share Space that builds Synergy This corporation aims to advance critical, self-discovery through shared self-development experiences; address industry and societal challenges; foster collaboration and partnership development across industry, academia, government, nonprofits, civil society, and communities of practice; stimulate economic growth and job creation; and serve as a conduit to regional innovation and talent.   I/We write to express support for the FLUM Zoning Designation Change of Mixed-Use Low-Density to support the proposed “Buyou Art Lofts” development proposed at 5700 + 5775 Deer Park Blvd. This proposed development is essential to address a critical need for new, modern, workforce housing that will monetize the development’s small business mission of increasing entrepreneurship in New Orleans East.    Zoning Support:  I/We support the City of New Orleans Master Plan Future Land Use Map Amendment (FLUM) PD09-09 because the amendment acknowledges single-family, duplex, four-plex, multi-family, commercial, and/or mixed-use land use options.  The amendment promotes commercial development and diverse housing options that together, co-dependently, each sector above, stimulates economic growth through flexible land uses.    This amendment aligns with the City of New Orleans' broader goal of ensuring that New Orleans East is economically positioned to attract diverse business and housing options that foster community vitality.   Proximity to Public Amenities: The strategic location of PD09-09 is in proximity to facilities that include: retail/service, medical, office, town home housing, and single-family housing.  Both, the Lake Forest Blvd. and Deer Park Blvd. corridors have a mix of land uses amid land that was occupied pre-Hurricane Katrina, and since presents increased disinvestment, yet are vacant land “opportunity gaps.”  Additional amenities in the area include: New Orleans East Hospital, National Blue Ribbon Lake Forest Elementary Charter School, Abramson Sci Academy, Read Public Library, the City of New Orleans 1st Nationally Accredited Joe Brown Park, 1 of 5 recognized Top National Urban Nature Centers (Louisiana Audubon), public transportation, and neighborhood scale retail. These amenities make the location an ideal choice for fostering community growth with your VOTE for FLUM PD09-09. I/We request that the City Council support the Mixed-Use Low Density Zoning Change Request for PD09-09. Your favorable consideration of this amendment will undoubtedly continue the process of enhancing quality of life experiences for existing and new New Orleans East residents and businesses.    Respectfully Submitted.

We ask the DEP to require that the new Inland Flood Protection Rules (IFPR) published on July 17, 2023 apply to this site instead of the 1999 Flood Maps. This site is subject to frequent flooding that has only grown worse in recent years. On July 29, 2022 the West Windsor Planning Board approved a plan from Bridge Point West Windsor LLC (BP) to build a huge warehouse project at Quakerbridge Road and on both sides of Clarksville Road over tremendous public opposition.  The project would include 5.5 million square feet of building footprint coverage, 2,435 car parking spaces, and 1,072 truck-trailer parking spaces.  The construction would disturb over 400 acres of property and cause an increase of over 241 acres of impervious coverage.  Using metrics from the  “Distribution and Goods Moving Guidelines” adopted by the NJ State Planning Commission on September 7, 2022 ,there could be over 8,700 vehicle trips per day at this site. The Flood Hazard Area Individual Permit, one of two permits needed from the DEP by Bridge Point to begin construction, was granted on December 1, 2022.  That permit was challenged in Court by The Watershed Institute and in a decision published on December 27, 2024, the Court vacated the permit and returned BP’s application to the DEP. This was done because of DEP’s failure to require a needed feasibility study.  The Court has given the DEP the option to require that BP submit a new application for a flood hazard area permit or an amplified or clarified version of the existing application.

If you want to be taken seriously on climate change and earn the support of young people, you need to support the Green New Deal resolution introduced by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey.

I believe Clint E Woods should be granted Clemency and be released form prison.

Lets tell our Governor to stop wasting time and money on such ignorance as this. Our children deserve more this.

The US uses 25% of the world's natural resources but our recycling rate nationally is deplorable. We need to have a deposit on cans and bottles to encourage people to recycle. It's a concept that works in many states and there is no reason that some states should get a free pass from doing their fair share to make our world a better place.

Dear Governor Brown and State legislators: We ask that you pass a law barring the use of state funds, personnel, records, facilities, or other property to assist the federal government in the mass deportation of undocumented residents as proposed by president-elect Donald Trump.