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.

Remember when Iraq voted and came away with the Purple finger to signify the fact they voted. They turned out in overwhelming numbers, Every Middle Eastern Country allowed to vote do so in overwhelming numbers. So do any country other than the United States of America. I propose some type of recognition readily seen to acknowledge those who cast their ballot. Be it Democrat, Republican or Independent. At least they voted.

Show your plan to support for our President and Vice-President

Recently, 4 young women were killed in a motor vehicle accident related to driving while distracted. These deaths are part of 35,000 annual fatalities and one half million bodily injuries occuring on our roads each year. Many of these accidents are the results of distracted driving from cell phone use and texting. We would like President Obama to make this a DNC platform issue. It is our hope that he would pledge to reduce road fatalities by half during his next four year term.

Because of lenient penalties there is little deterrence in animal cruelty;such as promoting and attending dog ,and cock fights.

To stop the killing of innocent babies like lamb, veal and baby chicks for consumption. Their lives are cut way to short.

I, like millions of Americans, struggle to find a balance between eating healthy, and having enough money to be able to afford the other things we need to have an enjoyable life. My petition argues that we for too long have used the Farm Bill to subsidize the production of corn when the Farm Bill was intended to figure out how to subsidize farmers. We currently have less than 10% of the funds go towards Organic, Sustainable, and producers of the like. I want all organic farmers to have the chance to obtain in the united states an annual, renewable, 10k+ loan to help scale-up their small, local, organic farms to allow for organic food to become more cost competitve with conventional Produce.

बस्तर में दण्डकवन के ऋषि कहे जाने वाले लेखक/कवि लाला जगदलपुरी वैसे तो किसी पुरस्कार के मोहताज नहीं हैं। लाला जी १९३६ से लेखनरत हैं..उनका हिन्दी के साथ-साथ छत्तीसगढी तथा बस्तर की लोकभाषा हल्बी एवं भतरी में भी लेखन-प्रकाशन उपलब्ध है। लाला जगदलपुरी भले ही आज 94 वर्ष के हो गये हों किंतु उनका लेखन ही आज भी बस्तर अंचल की पहचान है। लाला जगदलपुरी के लेखन से पूर्व बस्तर से बाहर के लोग यहाँ की संस्कृति को बहुत हीं संकुचित रूप में देखा करते थे। वे इसे एल्विन, ग्रियर्सन, ग्रिग्सन और ग्लासफर्ड के नजरिये से देखा करते थे लेकिन इन्हें पढकर बस्तर की समृद्ध संस्कृति को उसकी समग्रता में समझने-बूझने का मौका मिला। लाला जी ने घोटुल की आत्मा को समझा और उसकी सच्चाई लिखी.. लाला जगदलपुरी जगदलपुर से प्रकाशित साप्ताहिक ’अंगारा’ में सम्पादक, रायपुर से प्रकाशित ’देशबन्धु’ में सहायक सम्पादक, महासमुंद से प्रकाशित ’सेवक’ में सम्पादक और जगदलपुर से बस्तर की लोकभाषा ’हल्बी’ में प्रकाशित साप्ताहिक ’बस्तरिया’ में सम्पादक रहे। बस्तर अंचल में हाल हीं में कराये गए सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया कि इनका नाम बस्तर अंचल के ८४ प्रतिशत शिक्षित/अशिक्षित दोनों हीं प्रकार के लोग भली भांति जानते हैं। लाला जगदलपुरी अब वयोवृद्ध हो गये हैं तथा उनके कार्य को पद्मश्री जैसा सम्मान अब तक न मिल पाना बस्तर अंचल के पिछडेपन के कारण ही हुआ है। इस अंचल की महानतम कलम को पद्मश्री दिया जाये यह हमारी विनम्र माँग हैं।

I think when Mitt Romney said that he had never been asked to show his birth certificate he was trying to be funny and somehow imply that the Tea Party people asking for Obama's birth certificate implies there's something wrong with Obama but in fact most people have to show there birth certificate to enroll in school or get a job or apply for a passport which are all things that Romney did so how could Romney's assertion be true?

Every time a candidate lies, defined by Politico or whoever doles out Pinochios, they must pay the other side $10,000.