I am a small scale farmer in Sullivan County. I would like to legally preserve and sell direct to customers the foods that I don’t sell fresh. Currently I would have to use a certified kitchen do this. A certified kitchen is expensive to build or rent. When food is preserved with a ph. of 4.6 or less there is almost no chance of pathogens surviving the preserving process. Selling preserved foods direct to the customer at farm stands or farmers markets would benefit the farmer and customer by providing value added products for the farmer and providing local healthy less expensive food alternatives.

Puerto Rico has government sanctioned to the death cockfights. Animal cruelty is WRONG!

I beleave that people while driving should be on cell phone; talking or TEXTING! Some states it is not allowed but it should be nation wide. School is back in setion and they will be on their bikes or walking. Too many people distacted on the cell.

Fox News revealed the identity of Navy SEAL involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid which put his life in danger and jeapradized our National Security. DOJ needs to take action at Fox news for this breach.

The situation for tobacco farm workers in North Carolina is dire. Many farm workers often live in labor camps with deplorable conditions, suffer from nicotine poisoning and exposure to dangerous pesticides, and work long hours for below poverty wages. Workers aren’t taking this sitting down though. They are organizing to improve working conditions and demand respect on the job even in the face of threats and firings. Sign our petition to call on Kangaroo Express COB Edwin Holman to visit the fields in North Carolina, talk to farm workers and support their fight for a voice on the job to improve working conditions.

I am protesting pay cuts for board certified physicians and officers in the U.S. Armed Forces. Never pay cut medical staff on duty during war time.

In attempts to run from their own party's stated agenda, Romney and Ryan are pretending that it really doesn't matter what that platform says. I want them to walk through each plank in the republican platform and identify whether they support or don't support it and why. (And if it's there and they DON'T support it, why is it there?) That is the least the American people deserve.

What do American voters really know about the history and beliefs of Mitt Romney’s racist religion? What do Mormons really think about Blacks, Gays and Hispanics? How did they accumulate such wealth? We know Mitt’s religion has helped shape his political policies? So let us see how. http://current.com/entertainment/movies/93884034_the-mormon-massacre-how-they-murdered-innocent-women-and-children.htm

Every year our pool offers less and less hours for taxpayers who actually pay for the pool are able to use it. I am an avid swimmer in Florida–I want the pool to be open so I can use it. Once "summer" ends & school begins, the pool closes on saturdays. Once October comes the two nights a week the pool is open from June to October close. The rest of the year: October thru June the pool is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. I work as a teacher, own a house, so I pay property tax, and cannot use my city's pool! It is ridiculous! Ideas I have thought of is to sue the city because as a resident and tax payer I cannot use my rec center's pool. In the afternoon, the pool is rented out to a private entity. (Citizens used to have 3 lanes to use during the afternoon, now none). Obviously, Florida is hot just about all year long–the pool should be available all year long! 2nd idea, like Gandhi's non-violent actions, I would like to petition citizens who cannot use the pool to escrow the portion of their taxes that go to the operation of the pool until they open the pool, make it accessible to tax payers. Fitness counts, so does a healthy lifestyle! The director of the pool makes a good salary. He should be held accountable to make the pool accessible or lose his job. The president's council agrees that a healthy lifestyle is important. Let's leave the pool open for all citizens of Largo, Florida to use on a daily basis!

Events like First Friday and other special festivities have brought life to Chinatown and revitalized the area, drawing in visitors that support local businesses and keep Chinatown thriving. There are efforts underway to limit or eliminate such events and alcohol consumption therein. Please join & sign this petition to keep the party going in Chinatown.

This is to demand Ohio Child Support Guidelines be revised. Too many families are struggling to pay impossible amounts of child support, only to support the Ex's and NOT the children who are the ones to be provided for. Actual costs to care for a child, not your amount of income need to be considered in support orders and custodial parents need to be held accountable for the money awarded to them!

Our country seems to be in the grip of the National Rifle Association. Neither candidate can say anything about controlling the sale of automatic weapons. I want to ask the two presidential candidates to step up TOGETHER and propose a reasonable gun control law that they BOTH sign. No big change, just the elimination of sub-machine gun sales. This will not change either candidates support group but will send a message supporting rational behavior.