Uber had just partnered with MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) to help reduce the deaths that occur due to drunk driving in this state!!! Just because the state of Kansas passed regulations similiar to 35 other states requiring criminal background checks and more comprehensive insurance rules for their drivers, Uber decided to leave Kansas completely, Killing jobs and making us depend on taxi drivers again(which are terrible by the way) Don't kill progress Uber!!

About 30 nations have a financial transaction tax as we had for over 50 years in the 20th century. Like the financial transaction tax of the UK, ours would be a tiny percent of 1%. Existing computerized financial transactions would make it easy to collect. Billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates strongly approve of such a fair tax. Please contact members of the US House of Representatives and ask them to sign onto HR 1464, the Inclusive Prosperity Act.

The Appropriations and Finance Committees passed a budget and revenue package that restored a lot of human services cuts that were in the Governor’s Budget. PLEASE call (most effective) your legislators and the Governor at 860-566-4840 or Toll-Free 1-800-406-1527 and urge him/her to support the legislature’s Budget and Revenue package. Please make these contacts this week. CT's most vulnerable will be seriously harmed if any of the original cuts were implemented. There are just 5 weeks left in the session – and we have a balanced budget proposal that we can and should support; the people of CT and the organizations that serve them CAN'T AFFORD these cuts!

Mayor Emanuel, Sen. Durbin, Rep. Quigley: You can stop this expensive mistake before it starts. Don’t waste federal, state and city $$ on an unnecessary Flyover that will destroy Central Lakeview. Apply Core Capacity funding where it can do GOOD, not HARM. What will the Flyover do? Shave 20-30 seconds off the daily commute for those living on Chicago’s Northside lakefront, the area which already has the very best transit service in the city. What about Chicagoans living in the vast transit deserts on the South and West Sides? GET THE FACTS: www.stopbelmontflyover.com Keep CTA’s RPM (Red-Purple Line Modernization) Project on track. It’s time to replace dangerous 100+-year-old CTA tracks, overpasses and supports, and update stations. But uncouple the Flyover. The Brown Line Flyover Is NOT Needed. 20-30 seconds. That’s the delay when a Brown Line train reaches the Belmont station at the same time as a Red or Purple Line train. The Flyover will gut Central Lakeview & Clark St., a thriving restaurant, theater & entertainment district. GET THE FACTS: www. stopbelmontflyover.com

Minimum wage in Georgia is barely on par with the federal minimum wage. Both are $7.25. Georgia is paying their workers $7.25 an hour, which is definitely not high enough, as it is the lowest minimum wage of all of the states. The minimum wage is required to be equal to or greater than federal minimum wage, so Georgia is giving their citizens the bare minimum. Assuming each person works 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and takes 1 week of unpaid vacation each year, that salary totals only about $30,000 a year. BUT, most jobs don't offer that much work time, and only will give a total of $13,000-$18,000 per year.

Our legislature is a captive audience and complicit with the many lobbyists who serve the best interests of their clients not the taxpayers. When will we ever straighten out this State?

HB 149 and SB 134 are universally denounced by fair housing advocates, attorneys, and disability groups as unnecessary pieces of legislation that pander to the brazen assertion that housing discrimination should actually be tolerated in Ohio. SB 134 makes an artificial distinction between so-called "actual" discrimination and that discrimination which is proven by time-tested controlled investigations run by private fair housing organizations. Among other regressive measures, the bill would lower the penalties for housing discrimination and damage the important safeguards provided by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC). Ohio residents would either need to use the administrative process provided on the federal level through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or be forced to use attorneys to sue violators in state court. In addition, Ohio law would no longer be "substantially equivalent" to federal law, thus ending substantial HUD funding to our state.

This will negatively impact the local business on Old Causeway Dr. To include Mellow Mushroom, SurfBerry, Lighthouse Beer & Wine, Redix, and Causeway Cafe.

We must be a city in which every working adult can meet his or her own basic needs.

In an industry that is facing a potential shortage of licensed practitioners, streamlining the process should be a priority. With an average of 5.3 years to complete IDP, most interns will have been training for over 10 years to become an architect. Changes are coming to the profession, and NCARB and the vast majority of jurisdictions in the United States have decided to embrace it. I believe that Oregon should join this list and help speed the path to licensure. Please respond, with any professional credentials, to this petition by May 18th. I will be presenting these results to the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners at their May 19th Meeting in Salem.

In 2011, Governor Christie championed and signed a law that cut workers' benefits and locked the state into making scheduled payments into the pension system. The Christie Administration now has the audacity to argue in court that its own law is unconstitutional. Governor Christie says he has no money to make the pension payments. He's right! He's given it all away to corporations and to people who make more than 99% of us! Last year when the Legislature passed a budget that raised taxes on New Jersey's wealthiest residents and most profitable corporations in order to follow the law and honor our commitments, Chris Christie vetoed those revenue raisers and then claimed poverty to defend cutting the pension payment. A pension is not a perk, it's deferred compensation that workers have earned. And I want to remind you who these workers are. They are the workers who go alone and unarmed into dangerous areas and knock on the door to ensure kids are safe, workers who teach our children, workers who patrol our streets, and workers who maintain our towns and cities. And these extravagant benefits that Governor Christie wants to cut? The average New Jersey state worker pension is $26,000 a year, less than every state in the region. The Christie Administration has said that when you won't raise taxes you're going to have to make choices. And it is extremely clear who Governor Christie has chosen. It's not you, it's not me, and it's certainly not the pensions upon which 1 in 7 New Jerseyans depend. Tell Governor Christie to obey his own law and fund NJ's pensions.

Lighthouse Louisiana has been serving the visually impaired in Louisiana for 100 years. They provide support, counseling, training, and jobs for the visually impaired as well as those who have hearing disabilities. The jobs they provide allow those with disabilities the opportunity to be self-sufficient, and they provide a livable wage to those they employ. The disabled community is the most underrepresented In the job force. By sending these jobs to Asia, you are sending a message to the disabled community, as well as the country at large, that we do NOT take care of our own. The people who work there work so they do not have to rely on Government assistance. If you make it impossible for those with disabilities to provide for themselves, it will ultimately be the American taxpayer who will foot that bill. I am legally blind, and the support, love and guidance I have received from Lighthouse has made it possible for me to go back to school, to adapt and to succeed. The assistance they provided to me in the form of assessments, assistive technologies and overall support has made this possible. Shame on those in Congress and Mr. Obama FOR LETTING THIS HAPPEN. "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi "...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey