My children attend Rochester Community Schools, which has already been forced to cut 80 teachers due to budget constraints and burdens from Lansing. Bill 103 only adds additional and unnecessary burdens to school districts throughout the State of Michigan, which will negatively impact our children. Our children's education should be our top priority, and this Bill should be stopped.

Following the lead of Mayor Ras Baraka, over a dozen mayors from across the country co-sponsored a resolution at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that calls for banks to release delinquent mortgages to community based lenders. This is a major effort to stop our neighborhoods from being raided for profit over by Wall Street. Mayors and City Councils from coast-to-coast are anxiously awaiting your leadership against this crisis and are ready to stand with you in this fight against Wall Street! When Ras Baraka became Mayor a year ago, WE became Mayor! We believe in Newark and in the resilience of our communities. Unfortunately, families in Newark continue to lose homes to predatory lending and illegal foreclosures by banks. Meanwhile abandoned homes and vacant buildings created by the foreclosure crisis sit empty while private equity firms from Wall Street speculate and profit from our neighborhoods. Local elected leaders in cities hit hard by foreclosures, have looked to Newark as a model to get toxic and delinquent mortgages out of the hands of speculators and into the hands of financial organizations that will work to get large scale principle reduction for our communities. Aware of the commitments Mayor Baraka made during his campaign, a growing movement of local leaders stands ready to join the fight against the foreclosure crisis created by Wall Street. Homeowners in Newark are building a movement to push for housing justice in our city – and our work here will blaze a trail for activists and local elected leaders everywhere! We demand aggressive local action by the City of Newark to seize toxic “PLS” mortgages and to move distressed mortgages from banks into the hands of good actors, like community-based investors, who are concerned about the future of Newark families struggling to save their homes and neighborhoods from profiteering Wall Street banks and private equity firms. Mayor Baraka – your leadership on this issue has jumpstarted a national movement of municipalities demanding justice from Wall Street. It is time for Newark to lead the next phase of the battle. Please take the courageous steps that will reset these troubled mortgages and stabilize the housing market in our neighborhoods.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is trying to raise the Determination of Need (DON) scores, this will eliminate personal assistants for 10,000 Illinois disabled and 30,000 seniors. I will lose my assistant even though I am a double amputee. Please sign this petition to stop this agregious act.

Using inhabited islands for live-fire (bombing) training is in itself a violation of human decency. To approve lip service only to protecting all forms of wildlife on or around those islands is grossly negligent and should be considered criminal - NOT acceptable. But what the US military wants NOAA approves. Our islands are special, all of our species of wildlife and coral are special, some are endangered now. ALL will be endangered by the US Military if they are allowed to proceed with such an outrageous plan. We only have until Aug 4, 2015 to make our opinions known.

Church and State are separate. For the millions of religious groups or ignorant, bigoted preferences, State employees do not have the "Right to Refuse Service" do to their bigoted, political or religious choice, as they are paid employees to serve everyone in the State. They can no longer deny filing this union contract between two people including the .05% born with atypical genitalia, the surgical alteration by choice or health, or personal choice of sexual orientation is. Just as the "One Drop Rule" Texas retained their old "blood fraction" statutes de jure, but amended these fractions (one-sixteenth, one-thirty-second) to be equivalent to one-drop de facto-that would have denied Ted Cruz and Gov. Abbot's marriages due to anti-miscegenation statutes in the Dallas Records building, at the desk across from the "Whites Only" sign etched in marble above the water fountain where Ted and Abbott's wife could be arrested for being thirsty. As Texas can no longer deny the religious ideology, race, country of origin, Health premarital blood tests and pelvic examinations as it is no business of any clerk (still CT, DC, IN and MT do) or Adultery Status.

Historically, precise birth data of world leaders has always been recorded and available to the public. In monarchies, the moment of birth of any heir to a throne is (to this very day) formally announced and published by the nation of his/her birth. The births of many early U.S. presidents were recorded in family bibles. But in recent years, knowing the value of precise birth times (to astrologers in particular), many candidates have guarded that information. We believe that this information should, going forward, ALWAYS be public. In 2008 -- continuing well into his presidency, and despite publishing his long form Hawaiian birth certificate -- President Obama has been continuously harassed by unfounded charges that he was not born in the USA. This, while Ted Cruz and John McCain were born in Canada and Panama respectively. Long form birth certificates routinely state the date, precise time and place of birth. We have never seen Hillary Clinton's birth record nor that of Ted Cruz or Bernie Sanders, so clearly this is a non-partisan issue. Let's insist that all candidates be treated equally and be required to provide this important document to the American public.

I was born in Puerto Rico, and I have family on the Inland. My family has always been loyal to the USA. My grandfather fought in World War I, my father fought in World War II, my uncle fought in Korea, and my cousins fought in Vietnam. We now need help!

The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that marriage is a constitutionally protected right of all citizens of the United States of America, including members of the LGBT community. When you, and all officials of this State, decided to enter into public service you became servants of all of the citizens of Texas, not just the ones you agree with. The public servants of this State receive their paychecks from the State, counties and cities that they serve, not from their respective churches or religious institutions. We have no issue with you having your deeply held religious beliefs. But if they prevent you from executing your jobs, from which the citizens of this State employ you to perform, then you should find another job. You have a constitutional duty to enforce all laws, even the ones you do not agree with because of your deeply held religious beliefs. It is time for you to stop disrespecting the rule of law and begin to immediately require all public servants responsible for issuing marriage certificates to our LGBT Texans to do so, and to require any public servant who, under usual and ordinary circumstances, would perform a wedding ceremony to heterosexual couples to perform those same services to homosexual couples seeking to marry. Note that this requirement does not include any religious institution who have specific exclusions from the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

In the United States of America, cellphone use while driving causes 1 in 4 car accidents. Today, while driving with my mom, a lady was on her cellphone and went through a stop sign without stopping or looking, and almost caused us to get into a car accident! Other states banned this for a great reason, to help keep drivers safer. Shouldn't North Carolina, too?

Recently SB 1320 was enacted in Arizona deregulating and removing State Board Authority over the application of permanent eyelash extensions, allowing non-licensed individuals to apply these extensions. We are asking for a revision to the Senate Bill, to reinstate authority to the Arizona Board of Cosmetology, over the application of Eyelash Extensions. We are concerned about the health, safety and well being of the consumer, when a medical grade adhesive is applied to the eye area by an unlicensed professional/whom is not regulated or subject to disciplinary action by any governing authority.

Greece is experiencing a financial crisis imposed by the hardline austerity demands and dangerous brinkmanship of its official creditors, especially the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. The IMF is a US-taxpayer financed institution. President Obama [1] and US Nobel-prize winning economists Paul Krugman [2] and Joseph Stiglitz [3] have criticized the IMF policies which have led to this crisis, which is coming to a head this week with threats that Greece may be forced to default on its debt and leave the Euro if Greek voters don’t approve new austerity demands, including cuts to public pensions and raising the retirement age. Urge your Representative and Senators to make a public statement against what the IMF is doing to Greece by signing our petition. References: 1. “Obama joins ally list on Greek austerity relief,” http://news.yahoo.com/obama-joins-ally-list-greek-austerity-relief-033040983.html 2. “Greece Over the Brink,” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/opinion/paul-krugman-greece-over-the-brink.html 3. “Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy,” http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-referendum-troika-eurozone-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2015-06

We want Illinois legislators to ask the question, "shall recreational marijuana be legal in the state of Illinois for adults 21 and older?" on a state-wide referendum.