Every where I go I see people parking in handicap spaces when they are not handicapped and the people who have reasons to park there can't and have to park elsewhere that can be a hardship to them. If you do not have anything on your vehicle that says your handicap then park elsewhere.

North Carolina is enjoying unprecedented growth in Feature Film, TV series and Commercial productions as a direct result of our competitive, easy-to-navigate, profitable and sustainable Film Incentive Program. Thousands of jobs have been created and hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in North Carolina towns from the Atlantic coast to the mountains in the West. Now, our Program is under DIRECT THREAT as lawmakers consider pulling the Film Incentive under a sweeping "reform" platform that will literally drive a billion dollar industry to neighboring states like Georgia, where a stable program has helped to build a billion-dollar industry. If our Film Incentive Program is allowed to lapse or if it is capped and bogged-down in bureaucracy, productions will simply find friendlier markets (like Atlanta) for their work. The departure will be nearly instantaneous. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS SPENT ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA... Since the Film Incentive Program started in 2010, nearly $500M has already been driven directly into every corner of North Carolina. These taxable production dollars immediately benefit vendors who supply goods and services to the productions wherever they work throughout the state. Restaurants, hotels, antique shops, catering interests, clothing stores, furniture outlets, car rental agencies, lumber and hardware companies are just a few examples of the established brick-and-mortar businesses that directly benefit from increased business due to the current Film Incentive Program. See annual reports here: http://www.ncfilm.com/incentive-reports.html JOBS... Since 2010, thousands of crew positions have been created, along with many more acting roles. With over 14,000 jobs and positions recorded in 2012, more North Carolinians are at work than ever before in the filmed-entertainment industry. Entertainment jobs are REAL JOBS. As it is in other industries (like construction or the IT Industry), producers, directors, actors, actresses and trades professionals may have more employers in a given year than their neighbors do. And they're working hard - it isn't uncommon for these creative professionals to log more than 2400 cumulative hours in a given year (compared to about 2,000 for an office employee)! Filmed-entertainment employees pay taxes and buy homes and put their kids in local schools. AND... THEY VOTE. The only difference is that they just happen to work around a camera instead of in a cubicle or behind a counter. LURING PERMANENT BUSINESS AND JOBS BY CREATING THE MARKET... Repealing the January 1, 2015 Sunset from our current Film Incentive Program will tell producers, studios and networks that North Carolina is truly (and permanently) open for their business. Once our program is finally stable, North Carolina will see infrastructure improvements (studios, post-production houses, et-cetera) and permanent jobs as companies flock to our state to service the incoming productions. No meaningful investment and infrastructure improvements will come to our State (solid-line business) if the productions (dotted-line business) taking advantage of the Film Incentive Program stop working in North Carolina. That is a cold, hard FACT. DON'T FIX WHAT ISN'T BROKEN... It is very important that North Carolina lawmakers know that the current Film Incentive Program is effective and that THE SPIRIT OF THE EXISTING LEGISLATION (HB 1973; HB 713) MUST NOT BE ALTERED. Adding caps and unnecessary bureaucracy (project oversight, script approvals, et-cetera) would immediately make our popular (yet by most measures, conservative), Film Incentive Program less competitive and would drive business to other markets. In places like Michigan and Florida, unnecessary hurdles and false ceilings repel production business. North Carolina is SMARTER and our message to lawmakers is simple: Film Incentives Put North Carolina To Work - REPEAL THE JANUARY 1, 2015 SUNSET TODAY!!! Friend Us. Tag Yourself in Our Banner. Share! https://www.facebook.com/KeepNCFilmIncentives

Work for the people who elected "you"; End corruption and any other negative action. Care for ALL citizens of all ages

STOP THE COVERT CAMPAIGN / TOP SECRET AMERICA'S HIGH TECH TERROR CENTERS / JSOCK,ETC. . DESIGNED TO DATA MINE AND SPY ON ALL US CITIZENS.

Guatanamo prisoners are being held indefinitely without trial. One hundred men (nearly 2/3 of the entire population) are silently starving themselves to death in protest at this very moment. Lawyers and human rights groups say it is just a matter of time before the detainees start to die. More information here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/inside-guantnamo-an-unprecedented-rebellion-leaves-a-notorious-detention-centre-in-crisis-8604532.html

If workers whether they are Government or private workers are required to take drug testing. Including welfare unemployment etc. then all should be required under the law including senators presidents congressman.Equal treatment under the law is constitutional. selective testing is unconstitutional.

We the people once had a great meaning....it seems the only thing that gets attetion today is two fold, MONEY and LAW !! I believe that we need to reinstall common sense as a great power driven by the people... everyone would know they are responsible and NOT just the government !!!

"For me, Mother's Day is a day of grief. Every day is a day of grief. My son Abdurahman Shabati is a prisoner at Guantánamo, and has been cleared for release since January of 2007. The United State’s government has stolen my son’s youth, and stolen our family’s peace and happiness. Don’t they realize we are human beings, not stones? That we suffer just like they would if they had lost their children? This Mother’s Day, you can help me and other mothers reunite with our sons by appealing to the First Lady of the United States: Tell Michelle Obama to urge her husband to close Guantánamo now." -Om Abdurahman, mother of Guantánamo detainee Abdurahman Shabati, who has been held for 12 years and cleared for release for over 6 years. This Mothers Day, CODEPINK is helping Om Abdurahman and the other mothers of Guantanmo prisoners reunite with their sons by telling Michelle Obama to tell her husband to close Guantanamo Bay Prison immediately. Join us.

Credit histories are working against the working class and for the banks, it is used on everything from jobs to auto insurance ,it has gotten out of control. With the extremely poor job that Credit Bureaus did rating Mortgages that were packaged as derivatives during the Financial Swindle that Wall street played on the US taxpayers ,& middle Class homeowners,short of a major overhaul the best thing we can do is reduce the Impact Credit Ratings have on Working Class Americans. Lets bring Credit rating usage back to what it was intended for , Credit ratings should be used only to check the Credit worthiness of those who are about to borrow money either from a Bank, Credit card Company or the Government,nothing else.

The voice of the people might be the only thing standing between a young artist from West Africa and arrest and violence. Michel Mendy is gay and from Senegal, where it is illegal to be gay and where the U.S. State Department has noted widespread violence against LGBT people. Help save Michel Mendy from legalized bigotry.

Children in countries like the Ivory Coast stolen and forced to work on coco farms harvesting cacao pods. Companies like Hershey use these pod when making their chocolate.

My petition is about accessibility in the community. Yes, I have been affected by this issue. As a person with a disability, it affects me every single day.