Our organization works with families who are under stress and living in poverty. We strive to help them become the best parents they can be so the next generation can be contributing members of society. Unfortunately, positive parenting is difficult to embrace when basic needs aren't being met, many of which are mental health needs and/or untreated chronic physical illness. If these parents do receive treatment, it plunges them into inescapable debt, which perpetuates poverty and stress. Help has been offered as part of the Affordable Care Act. All we have to do is accept it.

Our 2009 Community Master Plan recommends public art as a tool for neighborhood improvement. "River of Words" has been embraced by our community and has brought us favorable international press. In addition to being public art, River of Words is speech protected by the First Amendment. Those of us in the Mexican War Streets Historic District wish to keep our words permanently affixed to our homes. The HRC should allow our Words to remain without further hearings until they publish agreed-upon guidelines and procedures on public art.

Democracy means that people vote and participate. Registration can be easily facilitated by providing online registration to Floridians. When I received my driver's license I was able to register to vote. Online registration is equally simple and will increase voter participation.

On 4/17/15, COGCC approved the Peterson Energy applications for 6 wells to be drilled near Bethke Elementary School. These applications still have wrong information and raise safety and health concerns. As the Larimer County Local Government Designee (LGD), Mr. Robert Helmick is the only person that can appeal the decision to approve the applications on behalf of the concerned and impacted public. Please insist that Mr. Helmick exercise his right to appeal the approval of the applications to the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.

The citizens of Louisiana are tired of the cuts to higher education funding. Governor Bobby Jindal recently proposed a $608 million reduction in higher education funding in Louisiana. That amounts to roughly 80 percent of the operating budget of the University of Louisiana System. These cuts to higher education funding in Louisiana are a shameful attempt to temporarily the larger budget problems in Louisiana. The middle class will have to take up the slack so Jindal can avoid tax cuts and major budget overhauls while he attempts a presidential bid. Legislators: Do not stand by and let higher education be set back a generation! That’s what we are looking at here. It is not up to the governor; it is up to you! Step up for a change. Commit to RESTORING funds to higher ed; NOT taking more from them and setting them back for another twenty years. All of you out there that feel this way: Send this to your representative and senator, call your representative and senator, pledge to vote them out if they continue to significantly harm higher education. For further reading, check out: http://louisianavoice.com/2012/05/31/louisiana-is-following-trend-of-taking-state-out-of-state-colleges-in-slow-move-to-privatization-of-higher-education/ http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/education/k-12/2014/09/15/louisiana-ranks-poorly-national-education-assessment/15694709/ http://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2015/04/lsu_scaling_back_faculty_hires.html#incart_most-read_education_article http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/lsu_academic_bankruptcy.html#incart_story_package http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-bobby-jindal-wrecked-louisiana/

From the years of (1981 -2010) there have been 112,375 infants, children, and teens killed by firearms. It was predicted in a recent article that this number would skyrocket dramatically sometime within this year of 2015, if stricter gun control laws don't get created and persist. Recently a new bill has been proposed to allow firearms to be carried in Tennessee parks and even on playgrounds where there will be nothing but innocent lives hanging in the balance. It has to stop, stand with me and millions of others to innovate the future and get stricter gun control laws made now.

I am a student at Louisiana State University Eunice, and I see firsthand the struggles of all college students around the state. Tuition will go up and some majors are being dropped. Everyone deserves a chance at a college degree. With these proposed cuts, Gov. Jindal is basically saying that he does not care about colleges in Louisiana. Show him that we care. Sign this petition and show your support for higher education in Louisiana.

Scientific research has shown that primates such as chimpanzees possess a wide array of traits that would seem to suggest that they are rational, autonomous beings capable of feeling emotional and physical pain and being unhappy with their environment. Chimpanzees such as Hercules and Leo should not be kept caged up in inhumane research facilities that would put them in distressing emotional and physical states.

The Billionaire owners of the PawSox want to move from McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket less than a mile down the road at the Apex site on the backs of Rhode Island taxpayers. The owners claim it will bring in millions of revenue a year. We already have an awesome and beloved stadium at McCoy. If they can bring in millions in revenue at Apex in Pawtucket, why can't they do it at McCoy in Pawtucket? It won't create jobs because these jobs are already in our state and city, at the present stadium. Let the governor and legislature know that Rhode Islanders do not want this new stadium! Just say no!

The letter attacking Dr. Oz is not from the Columbia faculty. It's from ten physicians, all of whom have industry ties. What it's really about is that the industry is furious that he has taken on genetically modified crops. So you basically have industry henchmen who are after Dr. Oz here. One of them in fact, the head of the American Council on Science and Health, spent some time in federal prison for Medicaid fraud. These groups are called "astroturf groups." That is, they appear to be grassroots groups representing real consumers, but, in fact, they are the henchmen of industry here, and that's what you're looking at with this letter. The media often gets swept up by this; they say, "this is a great story." They get swept up by it, they report it, but they don't look at who wrote that letter.

According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce entitled The Economy Goes to College, [https://cew.georgetown.edu/report/economygoestocollege/] college-educated workers in America now make 80 percent more on average than workers without a college degree. That's twice the wage advantage of 50 years ago. The state of Louisiana has reached a tipping point. To allow our public institutions in this state to suffer such catastrophic budget cuts, after the already crippling cuts of 2008-2009 (my Alma Mater the University of New Orleans' state support has already been reduced by $40 million since that time AND THAT'S JUST ONE SCHOOL) will be to "compromise academic quality, further diminish program offerings and limit both educational access and attainment." - University of New Orleans President Peter J. Fos I agree with the Georgetown study's findings wholeheartedly. We need to be increasing our state's college graduates, not reducing them. As the state ranking second-to-worst not only in education but ALSO in everything from health care conditions to legal climate to gender pay gap our legislature should be doing MORE to make college a viable option for our young people, not LESS. The study's authors conclude, "Education is not just the preferred path, but increasingly it's the only reliable path to a middle-class life." The surest way to reduce income inequality, to quantifiably stimulate and sustain economic activity in our region, to lose less of our best and brightest to 'brain drain', and to contribute to an enhanced quality of life is through higher education. Forcing our public universities to file for the equivalent of academic bankruptcy is truly a travesty, especially in light of the hundreds of millions each year wasted on pet projects, special interest groups, and voucher programs for far below sub-par private schools. Protecting the sanctity of quality higher education, at an affordable rate, is the only way to ensure we advance as a state.

We are serving notice that as citizens of the City of Rochester we deserve to be treated with dignity and respect irrespective of our race, color, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, age or any other factors. We are further requesting that any and all members of the RPD whose behavior violates the Code of Ethics, be held accountable for their actions as provided by the laws governing the department.”