The Historic Jackson Rooming house is a former boarding house in Tampa centered on Central Avenue. The Jackson house was the only house in the area where African Americans travelers like Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, and James Brown could find accommodations when segregation was in force in the south. Now the city has added thousands of dollars of fines and a short window to fix the building or they will demolish a historic site that was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic places in 2007. There is no rush to destroy history please allow volunteers ample time to get this house up to code.

The time has come again to stand up for our individuals and their services. Last year, the concerted efforts of all of us helped us preserve the services to our individuals , and our jobs. Once again, we are being pushed to the brink of the same predicament we were in last year. Please, sign the online petition asking the Governor not to propose or support cuts in funding to supports and services for people with developmental disabilities. We need to illustrate that people with disabilities, their families and those who support them are united in supporting this message. We have hundreds of thousands of people across the state who support our goal of no more cuts, yet fewer than 5,000 people have taken less than a minute to join in and support this effort. We can do much better than that. Please help spread the word.

The Washington Post reports that "negotiations are almost complete on a long-overdue farm bill" and that House and Senate negotiators plan to "call for eliminating about $9 billion in funding for food stamps." ?#@*&%! But this fight is not over, not by a longshot. Here is how we plan to stop food stamp cuts: Passage of the Farm Bill is not guaranteed. Any Farm Bill has to pass both the tea party controlled House and the Democratic controlled Senate. Just as there are some Democrats who will oppose the bill because it cuts food stamps (partially because the Daily Kos community sent 265,000 emails telling members of Congress to oppose food stamp cuts), there are also tea partiers who oppose the Farm Bill because it doesn't cut food stamps enough. As such, it is possible for a left-right coalition to sink this bill. If the Farm Bill is defeated, then any food stamp cuts will probably be delayed at least a year. If there is no way to pass a Farm Bill in the current Congress, then the most likely outcome is for a continuing resolution which would extend the current Farm Bill for another year. This would stop any cuts to the food stamp program, and kick the can down the road until there is a new Congress after the 2014 elections. Now, there is no guarantee that the 2014 elections will result in a Congress that is better on food stamps. In fact, those elections could make things even worse. But defeating the Farm Bill, getting a continuing resolution, and then doing well in the 2014 elections is the only realistic path to stopping food stamp cuts. This is our path. Please sign our petition denouncing congressional negotiators for planning to cut food stamps, and share the bill far and wide over Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.

Oklahoma is home to many intelligent and talented individuals. The legalization of marijuana for medical and personal use would shift an amazing economic boost for our state. Schools, roads, hospitals these are but a few things that are still in need of repair and /or reform. For years I have heard talk of how cutbacks, crackdowns, lotteries and casinos would bring revenue to our state and give us the means to fix these things, yet here we stand. With an absolute accomplishment of nothing to show. There are numerous positive facts and statements that can be made on marijuana and the many uses it holds. It's legalization could help get and keep Oklahoma a debt free and financially sound state. Aside from also helping to thin out correctional facility overcrowding and pioneering in cancer cures and being the most useful plant on the planet. Why would you not legalize? It is time to break the cycle of ignorance and fear, stand up, change the way the world sees and put your stamp on a whole new chapter in our futures past.

I am one of the people that is affected by congress stopping this benefits. I been searching for employment but has not been successful in my search. At this time I am a mother of one and am expecting my second child. No one will hire due to me being pregnant. With these benefits, it will help until I deliver and begin my search again. Please Stop this from happening to millions of people that need this extra help at this time!

A mother of 2 small children was placed in jail for following the advisement of a Social Worker and 2 judges in WI to not bring her children for visitation with their father who resides in TN. The advisement given to her to not bring her kids to TN is because a third party reported to Children Protective Services in WI concerns that the children might have been abused by their father. After a forensic investigation where it was decided that the fathers visitation rights be suspended by the Social Worker in WI so the mom did not bring her children to TN (as any concerned mother would do). During the forensic investigation one of the boys stated that his father had touched him inappropriately and left him unattended on multiple occasions. Additionally there was a temporary restraining order placed against the father by 2 judges in WI thereby legally preventing the mother from bringing the children to the father in TN. If this mother had disregarded the legal advisement from WI she would have been held accountable by the WI Courts. This mother is still facing additional jail time and could potentially lose custody of her children. Because this mother followed the legal advisement in WI- the TN judge Phillip Robinson has placed this mother in jail to “make a point” that she should not have disobeyed his order… But what kind of a mother would drop her children off with someone she was just advised not to leave her children with? The community needs to know what type of “points” this judge is trying to make to mothers trying to follow the law and protect their children. This is public record. Please see more on the story here at this blog: http://onemomsbattle.com/2014/01/13/a-tragedy-in-the-family-court-system-judge-phillip-robinson-tennessee/

The consideration of a satanic monument at the State capital is a Disgrace to America and such a peposal is taking a monument such as GODS ten commanments out of Context. This peposal greatly affects not only me as a Citizen but the undersigned as a whole nation.

Myself along with thousands of residents in my community have been seriously affected by the lack of public notification of Maryland State and County DOT sponsored public hearings (presentation, Q&A session etc ...) regarding a major highway which will ruin our community and destroy hundreds of acres of critical wildlife habitat.

I see too often men and women escape accountability for their actions. They never suffer, the parent that is doing the right thing does all the suffering, its almost like the drunk driver that crashes into an innocent person. The innocent person ends up dying and the drunk driver gets to go to jail...alive!

A six-month extension is expected to pass the Senate this week, but the Republicans in the House of Representatives are refusing to even allow a vote! When these benefits are cut off, the long-term unemployed have no money to pay rent, electricity, transportation, or many of the other necessary expenses of living and looking for work. That means they will be homeless, along with their spouses, and their children will have to go into foster care, or they will have to move in with relatives. For every person who is cut off, there are many more who are affected. How does this make any sense?? Sign this petition and tell Congress to WAKE UP and help Americans instead of corporations for a change!

To protect animals from their abusers.

I live on Staten Island and work in Brooklyn. Like many others each day after work when I travel home I am forced to pay over $6.00 in tolls. This monthly toll costs us over $200/month just to get home from work. No other citizen in the city who has to drive and use a bridge to get to work suffers from such tolls. We who live on Staten Island should be afforded the same right, respect and courtesy.