Wall Street has another trick up its sleeve – one that could cost millions of American workers and retirees tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. It involves the rules for many of the financial professionals on whom we depend for retirement planning advice. The Department of Labor (DOL) has been working hard to update those rules, so that more advisers must meet a basic “fiduciary” standard - a simple duty to look out for the best interests of their clients. Because many advisers are not currently subject to such a duty, they can recommend investments designed to generate bigger fees for them, even if it means diminished retirement security for those they are advising. Big brokerage firms and insurance companies, which have enormous profits at stake, have spent millions lobbying against this reform. Now they are pushing Congress to kill the DOL proposal before it even sees the light of day. Don’t let them get away with it!

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act states that a provider's "religious reasons" could prevent a person in need from receiving medical help, housing, or a driver's license. This Act is discriminatory and unkind. We, the people of Michigan who have signed this petition, do not support this Act.

My 37-year-old son, who was 7 months away from graduation as a radiology technician, was hit head on and killed by a 91-year-old who was driving the wrong way on I-26 in Hendersonville, NC in October. The state had recently renewed his driver's license and this should never have happened. I want no one else to experience the pain we are going through right now.

The cottages on the 600 block of South Dubuque St. tell a unique and interesting story of Iowa City's history. They are currently scheduled for needless demolition. Rather than bulldozing these properties, I would like to see Iowa City and our City Council designate them as historical landmarks so that their owners and tennants can invest the care and love into these properties that they deserve rather than further adding to the senseless destruction of our city's past institutions and landmarks.

The cottages on the 600 block of South Dubuque St. tell a unique and interesting story of Iowa City's history. They are currently scheduled for needless demolition. Rather than bulldozing these properties, I would like to see Iowa City and our City Council designate them as historical landmarks so that their owners and tennants can invest the care and love into these properties that they deserve rather than further adding to the senseless destruction of our city's past institutions and landmarks.

The City of Long Beach says it will lay off five firefighters on Jan. 1, when a $910,530 federal grant — which allowed the Fire Department to bring back personnel two years ago — comes to an end. As Residents, we need to collectively voice our concern over this decision and implore the City to find the funds to keep our Fire Department staffed at its current level. Upon reviewing the financials, our elected leaders must find room in the budget or other sources of funding, our very lives depend on a solution. Our Long Beach Fire Fighters are also advanced medical technicians and save lives which may otherwise be lost without their dedication and expertise. As a coastal community, our families, children and neighbors will unnecessarily suffer from these eliminated positions. Please show your support by signing this petition to demonstrate our communal support.

As described above we need the name of our Facebook Fan Page changed to support Sean Payton (Head Coach of the New Orleans Saints)

I've had a custody hearing and Judge David S. Forrest was the judge who heard the case. I have proved my daughters mother has knowingly committed purgery and Judge Forrest did nothing. My daughters mother is a drug addict, and when my daughter was born they found multiple narcotics in her system. I fear for my daughters safety when she is with her mother. She has never had a stable home for my daughter to live in. I gave Judge Forrest all the evidence I had and he read it and set it aside. In another case involving my daughters mother in a custody case involving her oldest daughter, Judge Forrest was given evidence proving my ex unfit as a mother, and yet he gave her custody of her oldest daughter. Another couple had the same judge and the other parent was a drug addict and the other parent was stabile, and judge Forrest gave the drug addict custody and now the mother has no visitation to her daughter. Judge Forrest need's to be removed from the bench and a new Judge need's to be put in his place and rule favorably and read and take in to coincederation of all evidence that is being presented, and follow the law. If someone knowingly committs purgery then that person should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I'm asking everyone to please help me and sign this petition and ask all your friends to sign this petition and lets have Judge Forrest removed from the bench and a new Judge who will rule the right way. Please I'm asking all parents who have gone thru this to stand with me and sign this petition. I fear that if Judge Forrest remains a judge he will continue ruling unfairly, and children's lives will be put in danger.

Aside from the mass misinformation and miscarriage of justice in Ferguson, reporting the boy who was shot down in cold blood by police as having had a real gun which was actually INDEED a toy is more than a mistake for which to apologize: it IS MISREPRESENTING THE FACTS FOR RATINGS, which is unconscionable.

A Tooele County prison would have a negative economic impact for future businesses. Tooele County has a limited resource of water. Tooele County has limited roads. Tooele County does not have mass transportation.

The time has come to stop the blame game and start doing the job you, as an elected official, were chosen to do. Our government is hurting millions of people by ignoring their jobs as elected representatives of the people to grandstand and draw attention to themselves in an effort to make a bigger political name. This is a bi-partisan issue that needs to be stopped now so the government that is elected by the people, for the people, can get back to work and help our great nation.

I want a closer Pappadeaux venue to eat at, and I believe thousands of my fellow Kentuckiana residents agree. The location is perfect and the market is here.