To be delivered also to: Powys County Council, the Brecon Beacons National Park Planning Authority and the Welsh Assembly Government. We are convinced that a new second supermarket will detrimentally affect the economy of Hay-on-Wye’s small, and as yet intact Market Town. There are other proven and viable options to funding Hay-on-Wye’s proposed and much needed new school, and we are pursuing these with vigour as alternatives. However, there are just 1250 registered voters in Hay-on-Wye. We are a tiny, intact community with a fragile market and tourist economy - and no chain stores. Our High Street is precious and unique. We need your help to preserve it, and our way of life, now a rarity in Great Britain. Within a 4 mile radius of Hay-on-Wye, we delivered 3000 questionnaires (2 per household) to our local community and we now know that: 82% Agree that a new second supermarket will result in shops and local suppliers closing 75% Agree that a new second supermarket will result in people losing jobs 70% Agree that a new second supermarket will have a negative environmental impact on our town Please can you help us in our battle with big business over democracy? We cannot do this alone, we are just too small. DO PLEASE sign our petition…….! Many thanks

when asking for my support as a candidate for any office I will only vote for a candidate who is interested in finding common ground and working to remedy our problems and defend our constitutional rights. i will not vote for anyone who pledges to put his party or any narrow ideology before the needs of the nation and the people.

Research shows 90% of news/talk is conservative and 10% is progressive. When progressive talk KLSD-AM (Air America) in San Diego was considering changing formats in 2007, the devoted listenership rallied and petitioned, but Clear Channel changed the format anyway. The listeners were devastated, and continue to have no access to liberal views on local, terrestrial radio. This is the case in many places in America. Radio stations are supposed to serve the public interest in exchange for their free licenses, access to our publically owned airwaves. The FCC has a mandate to ensure radio is competitive with diverse, local content but it is shirking its responsiblity to the detriment of our democracy. Furthermore, the Congress and President Clinton made a grave error in 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunications Act which allowed corporations to own an unlimited number of radio stations. To understand what happened, see the new documentary films, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio" and "Broadcast Blues".

Since the deregulation, airlines have gotten away with charging customers random and inordinate change fees on existing tickets and imposing rules on the changes that leave most customers no choice but to either take a huge loss on a full fare economy ticket and/or rebook the ticket altogether.

When a person writes a check, they are requesting their bank which holds a person's money, to pay a sum certain to another person (or entity). Sometimes banks violate the terms of the check by charging a service fee to follow the order. This violates the terms of the check. This is not the same as going to a bank that is not holding the funds.

In November 2010, Congress with Speaker Boehner in charge passed a bill called Citizen's United which allows corporations to donate unlimited funds to political campaigns. Political contributions made by corporations were once entirely illegal as recently as the Nixon administration, now unbounded. Until we fix this problem, corporations will have the greater say in the election process, many of them not even American corporations.

The greatest threat to American democracy is the 2010 Supreme Court decision banning limitations on corporate contributions to political campaigns in the name of free speach. The flood of corporate money has given corporations a megaphone to drown out the voice of the individual and thereby grants them ability to anoint our legislators and president.

Walmart is now implicated in a $24,000,000 bribery network to purchase site approvals in Mexico. One may argue that such approvals are "traditional" or "immoral," illegal or corrupting, but, IN ANY CASE, they are more than they're paying in America for the same kind of access. Shouldn't they pay us as much as they pay in Mexico? We, after all, have a lot more money!

Elm Street Development, which purchased the Clarksburg Town Center community for the price of one dollar, knowing there was an approved compliance plan in place that took over 7 years to negotiate, now says that they will not honor that compliance plan. We are calling on Elm Street to honor the compliance plan.

With the prospect of increased coal transports through Missoula's city core and neighborhoods it is time to begin drawing plans to relocate the railyard presently located in Missoula's Downtown. Missoula will soon be Montana's largest city and having a heavy industrial operation within the city limits is not healthy or practical, environmentally or economically .

Call for states to ratify a Constitutional ammendment that would remove corporations as citizens and restore them as solely legal entities who exist at the Will of the People.

Taxpayer protection: The same safeguards of public money required by government employees in the Hatch Act should apply to all public money given to any corporation.