Honorable Governor We, the consumers, are dumbfounded by the continuous rise in Gas Prices. The world supply suddenly has not shrunk nor did our President declare a war in the Middle East. The only explanation we have is price gouging. Please finish your inquiry on the last Gas Price Rise and make the inquiry results public. Also please start a new Inquiry on the recent up swing in Gas Price.

Everyone here in Michigan is affected. With many just barely making above minimum wage, why is the Gov. not doing something to lower it!! We live on a fixed income and at almost $4.00 per gallon, we cannot afford these prices. It is also winter so that means gas to heat our homes so we are all affected. You must help Michigan residents Governor!!

NBA players know that unions are important for protecting workers on the job. The National Basketball Players' Association has a long history of keeping players safe, and the National Basketball Referees' Association ensures fair compensation for the unsung heroes of the game. All workers deserve the same protections. James Dolan doesn't believe that. His company (Cablevision-Optimum) has done everything from illegally locking out and firing workers, to refusing to negotiate a fair contract with his workers. The NBA shouldn't reward his union busting behavior.

I am an affordable housing advocate who has lived in Cambridge, MA for over 30 years, and I am deeply worried about the future of my home town. Big real estate developers like Forest City are asking the Cambridge City Council to change zoning laws to allow much taller and bigger buildings all over Cambridge, so the developers can make more money. I think allowing high-rise office, lab, and market-rate apartment buildings in Kendall Square, Central Square, Alewife, and Northpoint will continue to drive rents and housing prices up. The tens of thousands of additional auto, bus and truck trips per day will intensify traffic congestion, worsen air quality, and make the streets less safe. High-rise buildings threaten to create shadows and wind tunnels, block sky views, increase noise pollution, and remove green space. The city of Cambridge does not have a current and complete Master Plan to guide equitable development.

The United States incarcerates more people, by all measures, than any other country in the world. State correctional systems and for-profit prisons create financial incentives for local sheriff and police departments to keep prisons full, and the economic and sociological impact of having 2.2 million men and women behind bars is profound. The GEO Group, which runs a network of private prisons, is about to become the namesake of Florida Atlantic University's football stadium. The GEO Group should be prevented from advertising their business this way.

Over the past few months, outsourcing and subcontracting at Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) has threatened the jobs of dozens of workers. SHC has recently laid off over a dozen janitorial workers and plans to lay off more by the end of this year. At the School of Medicine, SHC laid off thirteen of its original thirty-eight housekeeping assistants. Of the remaining twenty-five workers, sixteen have been given provisional employment until October 2013 (at which point they will most likely be laid off), and nine have been converted to “float workers” with no guarantee of permanent employment. These layoffs have forced severe work speed-ups and paved the way for jobs to be outsourced to a subcontractor, despite the fact that subcontractors on campus consistently provide fewer benefits, lower wages, and worse working conditions. SHC also maintains that it cannot find positions for the “float pool” workers despite continuing to hire workers through subcontractors and temp agencies. In addition, workers at the Clark Center, a research facility affiliated with SHC, have also experienced cuts starting in November 2012. Six of the nine Clark Center janitors no longer work directly for SHC, and were instead hired by the subcontractor UGL. The process of being laid off and subsequently re-hired in virtually the same positions meant that they lost their seniority and benefits, experienced significant pay cuts and are now required to do even more work. For example, one worker who has worked at the Clark Center for over a decade had his salary cut by over a third after being hired by UGL. In addition, some workers were offered part-time jobs with SHC, but the part-time status meant a significant pay decrease and lost benefits. These recent events follow a longstanding pattern at SHC and other Stanford facilities of subcontracting services in order to release Stanford of responsibility for maintaining safe and abuse-free working environments. UGL Unicco and Flagship Facilities & Services (another subcontractor) have gradually taken over the services of many Med School and Stanford Hospital buildings for four years now, reducing the number of direct hires. In addition, and perhaps more insidiously, since 2007, SHC subcontracted management of housekeeping assistants to Sodexo, Inc., a company internationally notorious for labor abuses. Managers employed by Sodexo have increased workloads, liberally fired workers, and implemented excessive surveillance. Sodexo managers have mandated speedups so steep as to make it impossible for workers to properly sanitize hospital rooms, making the hospital unsafe for workers and patients alike. Overall, subcontracting has reduced the quality of services provided at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, made jobs insecure and working environments abusive for workers. Please sign this petition to halt the recent surge of subcontracting and demand security for the jobs of the remaining direct hires.

Herbalife shops in the city of las cruces new mexico are taking advantage of many people by lying, breaking rules, and even going to the extent of saying that their product has cured their diseases. There lies need to stop because peoples lives are being put in danger. Families are spending all their savings when they buy in for 4k with the belief they are going to live a life of luxury by taking what is said to be the best product in the world according to enrique carrillo.

I am tired of paying for TV on which half the time is taken up by commercials. Pay TV stated out as "commercial free cable." That changed to shows having 2 minutes commercial blocks and now 4 to 6 minutes blocks for every five minutes of show. The average half hour show has approximately 15 minutes to 17 minutes of entertainment.

The influence of money in our democracy has facilitated a new American slavery, one that not only effects our own citizens, but has successfully entrenched itself throughout the world. Corporations have consumed our government and currently enjoy explicit or implicit immunity from any and all civil and criminal liability for the atrocities they create.

Don't let's these crooks get away with taking your home!! Make them pay!! They got bailed out and left the people holding the bag!! Either they pay a minimum $100,000 or everyone stop doing business with Cw/Bofa!! They can't stay in business if no one banks with them no matter what the government does!! Get together people they want to pay you $840.00 for taking your home!! Are you going to let that happen?

Two out of every five Philadelphians have no paid sick days off -- meaning when they are sick they can't stay home, or can't stay home to take care of sick family members. Philly's City Council tried to pass a bill last year to make sure everyone gets paid sick days, but Comcast spent tens of thousands of dollars to defeat it. The bill is back on the table, and together, we must tell Comcast to stop fighting our rights to paid sick days.

Stop the EEOC from accepting bribes from JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. in Deerfield Beach, Florida. JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. and the Broward County Florida’s Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Miami Florida needs to be investigated and brought to justice for corruption. African Americans are having their civil rights violated and the EEOC is being paid off by JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota, Inc. to look the other way and eventually dismiss all charges against JM Family Enterprises and Southeast Toyota. This is not fair, not right, not just and has to stop and the individuals involved need to be outted and brought to justice. They are suppose to investigate these charges, not take bribes from companies they are suppose to investigate.