Please add your name to support senator Risser's legislative effort to ban the use of dogs in Wisconsin's lamentable wolf hunt, and to let the Governor and Legislature know your opposition to the killing of wolves for sport.

-- The petition has been submitted. If you sign now we will submit again but to the new Pope. -- We were proud and humbled when the Catholic Council of Bishops led in calling for limitations on nuclear and other armaments that threaten the survival of life on earth. Additional threats to human existence, like over-population, now require your wisdom and compassion. -- Please revisit the Humanae Vitae published in 1968. Paragraph 26 of that document blames the world’s poverty and injustice entirely “on a lack of wisdom in government, on an insufficient sense of social justice, on selfish monopolization, or again on blameworthy indolence in confronting the efforts and the sacrifices necessary to ensure the raising of living standards of a people.” -- Surely a portion of that responsibility must also rest with ecclesiastics whose pronouncements which may have had a good faith basis in reason and morality to reaffirm the sanctity of life in one time, ironically and unintentionally no longer promote human survival and have become a significant contributor threatening all life, sanctified or otherwise. -- Worldwide population exceeds 7.1 billion. That will be 9 billion by mid-century. This growth has stretched earth’s resources beyond their limit likely causing the world population affected by water-scarcity to balloon from 8% in 2000 to 47% in 2030. -- Nations have been over-pumping their aquifers. Most are replenishable. Some are not. For example, in Yemen the water table is falling by approximately 6 feet per year. The quickly declining water tables and rapidly growing population have helped make Yemen a failed state. China’s Hai basin is facing a shortfall of approximately 40 billion tons of water per year. When its aquifer depletes, a 40 million ton decline in grain production will follow, leaving 130 million citizens looking elsewhere for food. Simultaneous over-pumping may lead to concurrent depletion of aquifers, agriculture cutbacks, and devastating world food scarcity. -- Fresh water and food production are intricately connected. Producing a ton of grain requires 1,000 tons of water. Water scarcity creates food shortages, raises food prices, and increases a countries’ dependence on food imports. Since producing grain requires large quantities of water, countries have begun cutting back on their grain production—opting to import instead. In several of the largest cities—including Los Angeles, Cairo, and New Delhi—water consumption can only be increased by reduction of agricultural water use. -- Unfettered procreation and ineffective birth control make efforts to conquer hunger and poverty futile. Lack of sufficient care and family planning services cause one woman to die every minute from pregnancy or childbirth complications. These women leave behind over 1 million children annually, who then become motherless and vulnerable. -- Girls younger than the age of 15 are five times more likely to die while giving birth than women who are in their twenties. Likewise, infants are 60% more likely to die in their first year of life with a mother who is younger than age 18. Family planning addresses this issue by allowing young girls to delay pregnancy until they are physically developed enough to give birth in a healthy manner. -- Turning a blind eye to the effects of misguided birth-control policies is not a loving response. Tacitly promoting use of more than one’s share of our world’s resources is not ethical. -- We have been fruitful and multiplied to the point where we no longer fill the sea (as Genesis 1:22 admonished us to do) but deplete it. Now we must “interpret the present time,” judge for ourselves “what is right” (Luke 13:54-57) with resource efficiency evaluation, and become better stewards of God’s earth. (1 Peter 4:10) -- Meeting the need for family planning reduces unintended pregnancies. This, in turn, lowers the cost of providing women with maternal and newborn care by $5.1 billion. -- Therefore, we implore you and your new Pope to approve artificial birth control as a gift from God while also requesting parishioners to limit the number of children they have. Also, please commit to educating women in your parishes to at least the eighth grade level and educating both genders concerning the over-population issue. It’s one of the things you can do to limit over-population.

This is a petition supporting Representative Stratton's bill to provide common sense reforms to the Traffic Code and the Motor Carrier Safety Act. As Provo Mayor John Curtis has pointed out, towing companies, although necessary to prevent illegal parking, have established lucrative businesses that charge excessive prices. This bill is an important step to provide municipalities the ability to establish fair rules in our communities. Full Text of the Bill: http://le.utah.gov/~2013/bills/hbillint/hb0115s01.pdf

We all know the security at Sterling Alvarado is a very annoying and problematic issue; so lets do something to change that! I've been a resident at Sterling since day 1 and have experienced a lot of security (rent a cop) harassment throughout my time here. I want to make a change as well as many of the residents I've spoken with here. I filed many complaints to the office but of course that did not effect anything. I want to get everyone's signature so we can all make a change/adjustment of how the security over here should deal with certain complaints. We all pay rent here and this is after all an "off campus" apartment and I feel like I'm living in the dorms. We can make this happen!

Too many people are irresponsibly talking on their cell phones while driving in NC. In turn, they are not using their turn signal and not driving with both hands on the wheel, which are causing a lot of auto accidents. Other states have adopted a hands-free law which allows the driver to still talk on the phone, while using an inexpensive, easily available headset or hands-free blue tooth device.

There are too many people that allow their dogs to roam free and breed causing an over population of feral dogs and disease. Also, they are a danger to children, adults and other animals. Passing a State wide leash law would give NC more control on an out of control issue.

Robin Kelly told FOX 32 Political Editor Mike Flannery that she won't participate in any more campaign debates. "My schedule is actually very booked; very, very booked," Kelly said when asked if she plans to make it to any more forums before Election Day. Now that the general election is weeks away, it is time to stop hiding and debate the remaining candidates. We all know your thoughts on gun control. But there are more issues in the 2nd Congressional District than gun control. If you want to serve the people, the people want to hear from you. Make yourself available to debate the remaining candidates. You have not won the seat.

As pedestrian fatalities continue to rise, the New York Police Department has focused on ticketing more bicyclists, even while deadly drivers continue to speed and threaten the lives of pedestrians and everyone else on the road. Until New York reduces its car-on-pedestrian fatalities by at least half, the police should stop ticketing New Yorkers who are using one of the safest and cleanest transportation options around. If we can get enough signatures, I'd like to do some kind of bike-powered delivery to City Hall together -- so please share!

Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South High Schools should have their own high school musical. By combining the student populations of these two large high schools, students are not given a fair opportunity to participate in a high school musical production during their years in high school. Would we combine the athletic teams of the two schools to produce one fantastic team? Of course not. Every surrounding school manages to produce their own musical, and are just as proud of their smaller scale production because it is their own students who are performing.

Recently in California a proposition was narrowly defeated (via a $46 million dollar ad-blitz by the conglomerate "farmers") that would have required the labeling of all foods containing gmo (genetically modified organism). Many of us are concerned that these foods have been deemed "safe" by the FDA with little or no testing. Many more of us are tired of our concerns, as consumers, being ignored. We are tired of paying for these products in health detriments and inflated foods costs, to name only two. We are tired of being lied to. To demonstrate our seriousness and collective concern, we are boycotting all gmo-based products for the weekend of Earth Day, April 20-22. We ask that our local, state and national governing bodies support us in making proper labeling of foods containing GMOs mandatory.

I live in a forest inholding for my health and that of my daughter. The Forest Service plans to obtain a right of way over the private easement road to my home. The right of way will legally allow access to FS land which has been used by bear hunters to terrorize us, trespass on my property, and repeatedly kill our pet ducks, chickens, and geese, and seriously injure our horse. Help protect us from the violence and terrorism before we must give up our special needs home.

A life is a life and a gift, We need to reform the pre-exsisting condition for animals and if you rescue a animail you should get a break in animal insurance. It is time to lower the cost overall!! So many animals are being given up because of this...I feel we are being taken advantage of. Lower animal health care cost and millions would be saved. I think it is so sad and wrong to say we can't help you because of pe-exsisting condition for any life. Life is not a business, Its about living and humanatarian to care for it. Its overdue and with what is going on in this country with expected layoffs is time to do something. I hope you agree with me and we can make something happen.