Our Fellow Native Americans Living On Reservation Lands Are Suffering Due To Lack Of Proper Housing, Electricity, And Water. We Need A Change Now!

Connecticut taxpayers subsidize large, low-wage corporations to the tune of $480 million annually because their workers are forced into needed programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and child care assistance programs. Too many Connecticut families receive poverty wages, work 60 to 80 hours per week, and still cannot pay the rent, their car payments, or put food on the table. This has to stop now! Enact the Low Wage Employer Fee--and make corporations pay their fair share.

The IRIS program that allows disabled persons or their families to manage their needs. My grandson Carter has severe cerebral palsy and is non-verbal. His homecare services are highly specialized for his unique needs and require a great deal of patience, training and coordination by parents and nursing staff. Experience has show us that agencies do not have the staffing consistencies to deal with these special needs. Independently, the family has been able to use funding to find nurses who have caring for Carter for 12 years. Please don't take that away from us. Wisconsin has led the nation with the IRIS program. Help us continue IRIS.

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.