Weather incidents like Deracho, Sandy, Isabel and snowmaggeddon resulted in electrical power loss so that gas stations over wide areas could not pump fuel for several days and recovery has taken longer than needed. Operating machinery and vehicles is not possible without liquid fuels.

My petition is about not allowing electronics by the parent or children in a supervised visit. I have conducted many supervised visitations where the parents bring in their electronics and are on them the whole visit and the children are playing on these devices. I feel this is a big issue; because parents are trying to get their children back, but are not communicating with their children. Instead they answer their cell phones or play games on their devices while the child does the same thing. The supervised visit is only an hour and I feel parents and children can live without electronics for an hour. The only exception to this is if they have to have a cell phone for work purposes only.

The train horns have been silenced only on the southern half of New Lenox, Il. What about the rest of the village, especially along Rt. 30?

This is not time for runners and diverting the services needed for our recovery.

It's been less than a week since one of the most devastating environmental disasters this country has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands in New York and the surrounding area are struggling without electricity, food, clean water and transportation. This is the worst of all times to have 50,000 people going to New York, disrupting its transportation and diverting its resources from people who direly need them. Postpone the New York Marathon.

Koch Industries billionaire David H. Koch is the wealthiest man in New York City, with a net worth of $40 billion. His fortune is built on polluting the climate system, from tar sands oil, pipelines, and petrochemicals. The rising seas and superheated oceans made Hurricane Sandy into a monster that has caused about $30 billion of damage to New York. Constructing a sea barrier to defend against future sea level rise will cost another $10 billion. Not only has Koch Industries dumped billions of tons of carbon into the air, David Koch has spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting climate deniers and Tea Party ideologues who fight regulation of carbon pollution. David Koch should immediately pledge his entire fortune to pay the government of New York City for all necessary repairs and investments to guard against future sea level rise and fossil-fueled storms. If Koch refuses, we will take action to shame him and expose his New York City philanthropy as a sham.

Congressman Camp has voted with the GOP over his entire 10 terms. He voted to cut funds for FEMA, the agency charged with quick response in a national emergency like Hurricane Sandy.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we've seen just how important FEMA is to Americans who suffered through the disaster. And yet, Congressman John Campbell has voted to cut funding for FEMA disaster relief.

The devastation in the wake of Superstorm Sandy focuses attention on the necessity of federal disaster aid. State and local governments would never be able to absorb the entire cost of clean up and the rebuilding of infrastructure that will be required for those in the path of this historic storm. Lawmakers such as Congressman Ryan who put political expediency ahead of victims of natural disasters need to rethink their priorities.

It is time that we focus on building the infrastructure within our country and not throw away precious resources building more naval ships and ammunition and arms that will kill people! Let us prioritize our resources and do what does the most good for our people - jobs, healthy economy and health for ALL!

Yes, the law is too vague and does not protect lakefront property owners in the way it should.

Tell Paul Ryan that dramatic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) in place of reducing military spending is unacceptable.