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Concerns

Top issues of Baltimoreans

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In no particular order:

1. Literacy -alarming adult illiteracy

2. Homelessness and hunger

3. Health - intregrating physical and mental health - funding services for solutions


4. Neigborhood association unity, particularly within their persective communities

5. To create safe havens for stray animals

6. Small business survival

7. Limit trash on streets, primarily bottles and cans, by building support and legislation for the passage at Maryland government level to have deposit refunding program statewide.

8. More drug treatment facilities

9. Transportation: more light rails (trolleys), and "el" connectors (to current subway line) thereby drastically cutting down the time of commute WITHIN THE CITY

10. Pollution: water, air, light,.... What to do with waste. Recycle more. Pollution caused by Maryland counties through especially waterways which depleat into the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estruary in the United States.

11. Teenage pregnancy

12. Public school system

13. Absentee landlords, fliping mortgages, lead and asbestos,....

14. Crime - the terrorism within us contributes to physical action: rudeness, undue entitlement, joking about fear, believing and pretending it is okay to hold judgements of fear, self-mutilation (in variety of ways including drugs), rape, robbery, shootings, and murder

15. Sexual, physical, mental, and emotional abuse

16. Water: Waterways, the Chesapeake Bay, the creatures of the sea

For the purpose of Baltimore becoming the exemplary "Peace City" for the world