Many cities across the country and our own state have changed local laws and ordinances to allow for the raising of a small flock of hens. It is time for Frederick, MD to join this movement. With proper education and a little research it is very easy to raise chickens in an urban setting without fear of noise, smell or disease. At the same time you can provide your family with a very healthy choice in home grown eggs. Factory farming is failing us in many ways. This will relieve the pressure on factory farming, while giving residents the right to provide a much more humane, and safe environment for backyard chickens. Let's join cities like New York, Baltimore, Rockville, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Potomac, and many more to put food production into the hands of city residents.

This morning I heard yet another feature 2016 election story on NPR ("Clinton is 'Worried' About Bernie Sanders--But Should She Be?") in which not a single mention was made of where candidates stand on the issues facing America. Not climate change, not gun safety, not national security--only a brief passing reference to income inequality. Our democracy would be stronger if Americans could more easily determine how candidates' stances on the biggest issues match up with their own views, but NPR is not helping to make that happen.

I'm starting this petition because I'm a single mother, my husband is incarcerated, and my 4 year old has been acting out since he's been gone. She asks for him and cries for him and I see how it has affected her in many ways. She asks to go sleep with her Dad and she wants him to watch movies with her. How can someone deny a child from being with the father regardless of where he is? I hope this petition is passed around and signed.

---------------------------------------- Since 2008 Cindy McGinley has been nursing sick or injured deer back to health before returning them to the wild. As a state licensed wildlife rehabilitator, she’s allowed to provide care and emergency treatment to wild animals in order to release them back into nature. In her eight years of aiding animals though, McGinley has encountered two special cases that have stayed with her long-term. Deirdre and Lily are a pair of white-tailed deer that live on McGinley’s horse farm in Chittenango. Each were brought to McGinley as malnourished and orphaned fawns. Deirdre, now five years old, was just the size of a Chihuahua when she arrived on the farm. "Her mother was hit by a car and she was found beside the body," said McGinley. Lily was so underfed and dehydrated that she lost her ability to see. McGinley believes that neither would be a good candidate for release into the wild and has since raised the does on her farm in their own turnout and stable. But now the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says the deer must go. While attempting to apply for a license that would allow her to care for the deer long term, McGinley was not only met with a rejection letter, she was also told that her deer must either be released or turned over to the DEC for release or euthanization. In the case of Lily, the blind doe, the DEC gave McGinley a grim choice. "There are only two options available for the one year old: 1) euthanize the animal as non-releasable; 2) surrender the deer to DEC," Joseph Therrien, a DEC Special Licenses Unit member wrote in his denial letter. McGinley believes her application was not given fair consideration. According to her, no one from the DEC came to see her farm or asked any questions to consider the circumstances for these deer. Cindy filed a temporary restraining order to try to buy time for her application to be reconsidered. For now at least, Deirdre and Lily’s future remains uncertain, but Cindy will continue to try to protect them just as she has since they first arrived on her farm.

I feel that Jello Biafra has been wronged and that this issue should be fixed right away. He owned those songs not manifesto and Ray so please listen to me when I say this needs to be fix.I have been affected by it due to the fact that manifesto overprices the heck out of their music and has prevented me from purchasing any Dead Kennedys music.

I am starting this petition because I do not want to see the other petition passed.

The reasons I believe this is relevant and should be provided to the American people are as follows: 1. Our President is photographed in all types of situations that he cannot control. I want to prevent any pictures that could potentially damage our image around the world. 2. As a fiscal conservative, it is important to ensure that no unnecessary taxpayer dollars will be wasted in this process of hair preparation. I have the right to know how much I will have to pay for that hair.

I've been to heaven and I had to do everyone's dishes because that's all I could get the job for. We need more people to not go to heaven or hell, we need a neutrality where we don't have to serve an all powerful lord. I.E. IRS.

Shark finning is illegal in US waters, but fins from sharks finned on the high seas, caught illegally or unsustainably by other nations can still be imported into New Jersey and sold overseas. Fins from sharks killed in state waters can also be exported, leading to an increase in the domestic shark fishery. Help stop the slaughter by reducing the demand for this unnecessary luxury and helping stop the shark fin trade.

I hate discrimination!!

My three children are involved in the junior tennis program at Lifetime Fitness Vestavia Hills, primarily because Jenny Robb is the instructor. Other clubs in the area simply hire recent college graduates and assume they have the knowledge and ability to coach young children. Jenny has the heart of a teacher, a passion for continued self learning and true experience; characteristics that are obviously valued by Lifetime Atlanta. Why can't Vestavia Hills have as good a tennis program as Atlanta? We deserve it, and shouldn't have to settle for another coach.

Raising a few chickens in our backyards has many benefits! Fresh eggs from chickens that are treated humanely and fed a healthy diet. Taking care of chickens with our kids will reach the next generation where food comes from as well as responsibility for another living thing. It will help the environment by reducing bugs and naturally fertilizing our yards and gardens. Hens aren't loud like roosters so they won't be a nuisance, and having just a handful of hens will make it simple to keep their roost clean and the chickens healthy.