The City of Coral Gables has commenced the design of their long-planned project for a complete makeover of its signature street, "Miracle Mile", the heart of the downtown area. This $20 million project will include shrinking travel lanes, and reconfiguring angled parking to parallel parking to allow more space for the pedestrian sidewalk. When designed correctly, there is adequate space to add a protected or standard bicycle lane, so that bicycle riders can access the many retail shops and restaurants on Miracle Mile. The initial plans prepared by the firm hired by the Coral Gables Business Improvement District ("BID") in 2009 increased the sidewalk from 14.5' to 21'. Experts in street planning (Streetplans) found that by reducing travel lanes and parking lanes slightly, bicycle lanes could be added to Miracle Mile, providing a tremendous potential improvement to the safety of the street for pedestrians and bicycles, as well as allowing safe access to the bicycle riding community. Plans showing protected bicycle lanes were included and recommended in the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan which was approved by the City Commission in 2014. In 2014 a final financing plan was approved that would create an equal cost-share where the BID and the City (residents) would each pay 1/2 of the total cost. A firm was then hired to commence the design phase services. A steering committee was appointed and the design commenced. At its first public meeting, the designers showed that the travel lanes and parallel parking lane could be narrowed, and all of the extra space would be added to the pedestrian-only sidewalk. Bicycle riders seeking to shop, dine and work on Miracle Mile will be expected to ride on the street. We the undersigned support the inclusion of dedicated bicycle lanes for bicycle riders of all ages to enjoy the many retail stores and restaurants on Miracle Mile without fear of harm from vehicles or risk of injuring pedestrians, and urge the City of Coral Gables to immediately direct the design consultants to include a bicycle lane in their plans.

To provide a unified voice for protecting survivors of catastrophic injuries who rely on these benefits; to preserve the nation’s best system for future survivors; to advocate for family, friends, and caring staff of those survivors of catastrophic injuries, lessening the burden of rehabilitation and around-the-clock care. SB 248 would cost tens of thousands of jobs, devastate an industry, and cost the Michigan taxpayers billions of dollars.

We need to ban the use of this poison. I have an organic garden and Certified Wildlife Habitat and have been seeing the dying of bees on my flowers. Organic growing needs protection from the pesticide, herbicide, and other poisons people use on their lawns and driveways. Living near a watershed, the Willamette River and other waterways, I see the need to protect the land and water from glyphosates, neonics. Please consider the wildlife and stop the spraying. Just a couple of weeks ago, the county sprayed along the Trolley Trail in Milwaukie, Oregon, killing the foliage all along a trail frequented by hikers, dogs, children, and the people who live along that trail. This is inconsiderate poisoning of the environment without permission to do so.

On Tuesday, May 12th, an Amtrak train derailed outside of Philadelphia and 7 people were killed -- and it could have been prevented. Modern technological advances, like Positive Train Control (PTC) which automatically regulates train speed, can keep trains from running off the tracks. But because of budget cuts, Amtrak can't afford to upgrade their systems with PTC. But just hours after this deadly crash, House Republicans voted to gut Amtrak of even more money. If Congress fully funds Amtrak with the resources it needs to upgrade their safety measures, tragedies like these won't happen again. Tell Congress to save lives and fully fund our infrastructure. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/amtrak-budget-house-panel-crash-117904.html

The integrity of the National Football League is at stake and I am not watching or attending any games until Mr Goodell is no longer commissioner. 1 trying to cap the former nfl players concussion fund http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10292549/judge-rejects-preliminary- approval-765-million-nfl-settlement-concussion-case http://deadspin.com/the-nfls-concussion-settlement-is-approved-1699586689 2 the Ray Rice 2 game suspension http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell- addresses-domestic-violence-issue/story?id=25610774 3 Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy- nfl's mixed messages on domestice violence http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/09/15/domestic-violence- adrian-peterson-ray-rice-greg-hardy/15698817/ 4 The Commish since 2006 and still not focused on a team to locate to Los Angeles: the second largest football media market in the country http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000481409/article/goodell-were-not- focused-on-an-la-team-for-2016 5 The Real Reasons why the NFL gave up their Tax Exempt Status http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/nfl-tax-exempt- status_n_7166020.html 6 Made 102 million in 5 years from 08-12 and more in the last 2 seasons with all of these blunders http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/12/news/companies/goodell-pay/index.html 7 Deflategate: Does the punishment fit the crime? http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2461981-deflategate-investigation-and- punishment-reek-of-witchhunt-and-overreaction

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Vaccinations, like any medical intervention, carry with it potential benefits and risks. And like any medication or medical intervention, we as patients, and citizens, have the right to research this intervention, and weigh the risks and benefits of the procedure and decline it if we choose. This is the foundation of informed consent, to which the standard of medical care is held and to, which all people have the right. This right to informed consent and our ability to choose what medical procedure and interventions we and our children are subjected to is under attack at a state and national level. We need to send lawmakers a clear message that we will not consent to having our right to informed consent stripped away by any law that seeks to mandate vaccines in adults or children and/or seeks to deny the right to education, employment or government services to citizens based on vaccination status.

We need safe roads in North Carolina now!

It is time for Moveon to move on. If we are going to work together to move America, we need to get behind Bernie to do it.

We should be horrified by the acts that food producers commit to animals every day, just so they can sell a snack or a meal. I've started this petition to help others understand the impacts of the egg industry - and while they may not want to stop eating eggs, they can still help support animals by demanding that the industry become more humane.

This petition is about losing your job or being at risk of losing your job just because you're sick. This is also about corporations wanting to fire you because you don't want to work while you're sick. It should be law that the employer should have to excuse the absence with a doctor's note. This would give the working class more rights.

You can call your Supervisor at 565-2241. Some facts, as reported more fully, with footnote hyperlinks and graphs, in the SonomaIndependent dot org: While Sonoma County’s economy is surging, and tax revenues are surpassing projections, County libraries are facing their fifth year of the worst funding crisis in a century. As reported in the Sonoma Independent.org, despite being one of the wealthiest counties in California, Sonoma County spends just $34 per capita on libraries. That’s half of what Napa and Marin County spend, and barely one-quarter of the $124 per capita that San Francisco spends. As a result of this underfunding, in 2011, Sonoma County libraries cut back their weekly hours system wide by 25%. This ended Monday and nearly all evening hours at 11 libraries. The result has been that the most vital public resource of our community has locked its doors on tens of thousands of patrons, including toddlers, teens, parents, and seniors, who had relied on regular library service. Library visits, with Internet service and book and DVD lending in a free, safe working space for all, had not been diminishing until the enormous cutback in hours caused them to plummet. Fewer hours has translated into a 22% reduction in visits, meaning 600,000 fewer trips to the library each year. Cutback hours has created lines for computer usage, and reduced services for the more than 100,000 citizens who use our libraries. No other countywide public service experienced similar cutbacks during the recent recession. And no other reductions in services provided by the County missed being restored by an economic recovery that will bring a record $13.5 million surplus to the County’s treasury this fiscal year (ending June 30). An even larger surplus is projected for next year. Yet our County Supervisors continue to insist that there is no money available to restore library hours, and that this is not their responsibility because a dedicated parcel tax funds our libraries. This ignores the fact that many local governments add funding for libraries, and that the County Government regularly adds funding for services, like roads and law enforcement, when dedicated funding falls short. During the four years since the Monday closures, inflation-adjusted spending for libraries has dropped 3%. During the same period, the total Sonoma County budget has increased by 16%, and, despite declining crime rates, inflation-adjusted spending on prisons and probation has increased by 23%. Sonoma County’s Library Director estimates that it would cost $1.2 million per year to reopen the 11 main County libraries on Mondays. This is less than 10% of this year's projected budget surplus, and a small fraction of what the County will spend, from the General Fund, to augment dedicated road repair revenue. Sonoma County expects to add at least $6 million this year to nearly $50 million in its “rainy day” reserve funds. We want our Supervisors to know that this unprecedented cutback in hours has created four years of rainy days for the many thousands of us, and our families, who use and love our County libraries. We hope that in 2016, a tax initiative can permanently resolve the library funding crisis. Meanwhile, we urge you to place $1.2 million less in the reserve fund this year and next, and dedicate these funds to restoring Monday hours, starting this summer. Sonoma County’s government website says, “We Work For You.” Our County Supervisors need to fund our library hours shortfall and stop making excuses. Four years of closed Mondays is long enough.