Urgent call to action. Help protect these children by creating Law’s Protecting our children in the Foster Care systems. These children have fallen through the cracks and NEED help immediately. STOP Children in foster care continued being placed with KNOWN pedophiles and mentally incompetent care providers who exploit, physically/mentally/sexually abuse, trafficking and murdering children.

To allow Doris Galloway request, petitions, and eventual demands to cease and desist demonic acts of persecution of her son and honor her God given right to her posterity and the authority that she, in Christ,commands.

TADA! makes arts programs accessible and affordable to NYC kids from all walks of life. We want them to feel safe when they easily access our facilities.

Walmart is not the right fit for Tinley Park. We think other businesses would offer more benefit and less disruption. Stop them from coming in.

Houston Park is a community park where our kids go to ride bikes, skateboard, scooter and play baseball. It is the only park with a flat surface. It has been taken over by street hockey players who are abusive and intimidate kids and parents out of the park each weekend. Many have been hit by flying puck including my son and the NYC parks dept. has decided to allow them to continue to play a dangerous sport and take the park away from the kids and community. This must end.

Passenger service in northwest Connecticut was alive and well until 1971. After the service ceased much of the area has suffered and become a modern day ghost town. Freight cars utilize the existing rails on a daily basis and this project is "shovel ready" and has been on the back burner in Hartford. Restoring passenger service would not only boost the local economies, but attract tourism, give families easy access to children at area private schools, and create a pathway to the Massachusetts line which has been funded and is underway. Let's fill in the gap. Toot Toot!!

As an anonymous researcher at the NIH, my experiments have been devastated by the shutdown. I keep hearing the stories from my friends: Months of work with cell cultures that require daily tending is down the tubes. Sensitive behavioral training and testing is ruined. Animals will have to be destroyed when we get back to work because, sadly, they will be useless as research models (imagine a partial-inducement of Parkinson's Disease in a rodent: what can you do with this now that it is not characterizing anything in the human?). Humans enrolled as research subjects--something that takes months of paperwork and coordination--will likely not return for follow-up testing because timing is critical on these types of experiments. The list goes on and on. As a post-doc, and after a long haul of education and training, I make very little money. I work every weekend and many nights, but I love what I do. I do it because I believe in basic science. It's one of the most noble careers, because for me, it represents a quest for truth. And I feel white hot anger that these elected "representatives" toy with federal funding like it's play Monopoly money. I'm just one story. But I know I represent the vast majority of government-employed basic science researchers who are sitting at home right now wondering what they can do. So I hope you will sign this. A voice of reason is only as strong as those that join with it. Please help me get a message to Congress--maybe they'll quit ignoring some of us on the ground.

Congress, in its unwillingness to compromise on a budget, has unnecessarily shut down the government. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be unpaid throughout the shutdown. Members of Congress should do the decent thing and forgo their wages for the same period. Our elected representatives at every level are voted in to represent us and our interests. Without a forfeit of wages, the officials making these decisions prove further that they are out of touch with the common citizen. The rash decision to shut down the government is damaging our already fragile economic recovery. The forfeiture of pay is the least they can do to prove that they are sincere in their efforts to provide a government worthy of its citizens.

As an artist, we are losing Art Spaces. Art is just as important as physical education and environmental education. We have plenty of environmental education centers in the state of Maryland. Please help us save the Art Galleries at Quiet Waters Park. If you've enjoyed the art galleries at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis, please sign and share the petition.

You have failed us and do not deserve a salary. No pay for no performance. End the shutdown. The Affordable Care Act is LAW--get used to it.

To allow all of those at the Downingtown STEM Academy to see how a true man grows facial hair.

Why Am I starting this petition? As a physician, I have met literally thousands of men who resent having been circumcised. Any alleged advantages are far outweighed by the disadvantages. No one, and especially not a doctor, has the right to remove normal body parts without the express written consent of the individual person. None of them gave their permission.