Banks will agree to a short pay or short sale transaction on a home and accept, in some cases, $300,000 less than the current mortgage value. Why not make this same offer to the homeowner by reducing the principle and allow them to stay in their homes? This would put an immediate halt to the 1,000's of foreclosures in our nation and give our economy a chance to heal.

Both state and federal legislatures throughout the country are looking to increase taxes on the middle class and lower them on the wealthy and large corporations. Meanwhile nothing is being done to lower gas prices or raise minimum wages or get rid of other hurdles to middle class income such as pay caps.

The banksters have stolen the equity from our homes, and then asked us to pay for it with cuts in services! It's time to clip their wings and get rid of Too Big To Exist! Bring back Roosevelt's Glass-Steagall Now! (Glass-SteagallNow.com for more info).

An economic hiccup would devastate the finances of more than 10 million "underwater" homeowners, throwing many into foreclosure. Mortgage lenders would be swamped with foreclosed homes. Already strapped homebuilders would be brought to their knees. In brief, we're one housing financial hiccup away from a National financial death spiral. Yet, without spending a dime or raising taxes a penny, the threat of fiscal calamity can be avoided by passing legislation that: (1) relieves banks of their capital requirements vis-a-vis mortgages, (2) mandates that lenders re-write "underwater" mortgages at current market value (marked-to-market), (3) mandates that homeowners cede to their lenders the difference between the amounts owing on their mortgages and FMV, and, (4) mandates that lenders re-write mortgages for 30 years at "preferred" interest rates and terms.

Stopping forclosures.

Congress is set to vote on a bill that would raise the bond for a transportation broker from $10,000 to $100,000 putting thousands of small business out of work all around the country. We should be protecting and encouraging small business and entrepreneurship.

Congress can help ease the high cost of gas by giving the oil subsidies to American citizens instead giving it to the already rich OIL companies.

The news reporters and papers make it sound like a great thing. But what people don't realize is that Right to work means the right to work for less. The unions actually hold the prevailing wages where they are for everyone. It will be a trickle down effect. Everyone will be affected by this. If everyone's wages go down people will be spending less money else where. This issue doesn't only affect union workers it affects everyone. Please vote no on the Right to Work amendment this coming November!!!

Despite bipartisan opposition, supporters of the irresponsible "Right to Work" Constitutional Amendment are trying to move the bill forward in the Minnesota Senate. They know that Minnesotans oppose this unsafe, unfair and unnecessary law, and have resorted to desperate gimmicks to try to pass it. This bill is not what its supporters say it is. Plain and simple, this isn't a right to work; it's the right to hurt workers, our economy, and the middle class.

In February 2012, the U.S.P.S. announced the closing of the mail processing facility on Nandino Blvd. in Lexington, KY, thereby rerouting mail processing to Louisville, KY and Knoxville, TN. This will be devastating to the area for several reasons. It will impact several hundred employees and there families, who may have to relocate to different areas, it will impact the delivery of important mail such as prescription medication and bill payments being delayed, and local businesses where these employees and there families frequent. This will be devastating to the economy in Lexington.

Arizona House Majority Leader Steve Court and his fellow Republicans in the State Legislature still just don't get it when it comes to protecting a liveable wage for low income Arizona workers. Last week, Rep. Court sponsored HCR 2056, a proposal to cut the minimum wage by $3 per hour for workers under the age of 20, and by $2 per hour for tipped employees. This economically draconian bill was endorsed 5-3 by the Arizona House Commerce Committee and looked poised to become law. The good news is that the 99% in Arizona are vigilant. Due to public outcry and widespread media attention both within and outside of our state, the worst has been averted and the proposals affecting tipped workers and youth have been dropped. But the resulting bill is small comfort to Arizona's working poor. It would reverse a 2006 voter approved measure allowing for inflation adjustments to the state minimum wage, freezing the current $7.65 per hour state minimum and limiting further increases except when required by federal law. A strong minimum wage is a critical part of bringing back jobs and opportunity to Arizonans. It puts money in the pockets working people who will spend the money immediately and locally. This helps everyone, the 99% and the 1%: businesses small and large see increases in demand for goods and services, leading them to hire more people to keep up with demand. With the economy making small, fragile improvements, now is not the time to freeze the wages of those who will spend money in our communities and contribute to our local economy. We need our Legislature to invest in workers, not force them further into poverty. If we keep speaking up, maybe our state legislature will finally realize that assaults on low income workers are a "lose, lose" proposal.

On February 27, 2012, the Town of Littleton Selectmen voted to discontinue the 20+ year policy of plowing and sanding the 4.27 miles of private roads. The Town failed to notify us of this decision, although we had requested to be notified of any changes to this policy.