Not only is our water supply diminishing, but the higher levels of toxins in our water due to fracking is on the rise. Let's keep that water for our farmers to produce our food, out of reach from the corporate greed which is killing our land.

Bring Jeweliana Copeland home to her daddy. Jeweliana and her daddy were subject to malicious and criminal actions by the mother Khrista K Erdman. Jeweeliana and daddy were subject to perjury by the Courts, Guardian ad Litem, DHS and placement family. Jeweliana is illegally being held by DHS, State of Iowa and Tony and Barb Smith. Iowa Code 232 states that I am not the biological or adoptive parent, therefore not a parent. Iowa code 598 states that I am the legal established parent. Let's bring my daughter from these organized criminals. Also ask for the resignation of DHS caseworker Jewel Condon, whom was cited for contributing alcohol to a minor in her job capacity.

Congress is required, under Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution, to call a convention of delegates from each state, to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, once applications for an Article 5 convention have been received from two thirds of the states (now 34 states). To date, over 700 applications for an Article 5 convention have been submitted to Congress, from 49 states. All of these applications are a matter of public record in the Congressional Record. Following a lawsuit, Congress has recently started counting and officially tallying the applications, but the count has been stalled at 14 of the most recent applications. Demand that House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte, and House Clerk Karen Haas count and publish all 766 applications submitted to date from 49 states; and call an Article V convention as Congress is REQUIRED TO DO BY LAW under the U.S. Constitution as the requirement under Article V, applications from 34 states, has been met many times over.

I teach at the University of Texas and would much prefer not to be shot!

Our kids' education should be our community's top priority. Mountains of academic research show that class size has long-term impacts on student achievement and success, particularly in the early grades and among disadvantaged children. This academic year, some classes at Riverton and Reiche elementary schools suffered large class sizes (25 to 27 students). Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk has proposed a modest 1.2% increase in the school budget for next year--enough to ensure appropriate class sizes. The proposed increase is below the federal government's 2015 inflation rate (1.7%) and is just a fraction of the 4-5% increases in school budgets proposed in neighboring districts, such as Falmouth and Yarmouth. Despite this, there are some that are calling for cutting our school budgets. If further cuts are made to the proposed budget, more children in the city will face very large class sizes. Please support Portland schools and smaller class sizes by voting to increase the school budget by at least 1.2% for next fiscal year.

Iowa has Medically kidnapped this family. There is no founded abuse mental or physical abuse, there was no Imminent danger. The Dr took Christopher off his medication to allow body to adjust so he could try a different medication. The other 3 children were stolen from her again no founded abuse,no imminent danger. We have on video tape the Social worker stating Christina did everything right. WHY are the children not home.

I have been serving for a while. Most people I work with have two jobs to make ends meet, causing health issues, exhaustion and more. Most restaurant industries require servers. Every day is a gamble, and we understand that when we sign up for the job. We can't control if or when customers come in. We can control only when they are here and their experience. Either the wage from $2.13 needs to be raised or there should be a minimum automatic tip on the check. We work so hard doing all we can, and when you do your best and get nothing for a tip, when they could have gone to a fast food place. .... yes it hurts. If most people tried to serve, I'm sure they wouldn't succeed. It takes so much talent to do this job. I work two jobs myself to make ends meet. I've had many checks today, as well as other servers, not include a tip. These checks were $50.00 plus, and that's a lot of food and drinks if you think about it. Something needs to be done. Please help to raise the wage, or set an automatic tip amount per check.

On April 1, 2015, Seattle took its first step towards a $15 minimum wage by requiring all employers with over 500 workers to pay at least $11/hr. Despite being the single largest employer in Seattle, the University of Washington administration has argued that it's not obligated to pay $15/hr to campus workers. This means that over 12,000 campus workers are at risk of not receiving a much-needed wage increase – including over 8,700 student workers, who have seen UW tuition rise 82% since 2008. Academically, UW is ranked among the best universities worldwide; unfortunately, UW is also home to an ever-growing gap between the highest-paid administrators and the lowest-paid hourly workers. Instead of increasing student fees/tuition, or cutting research funding and campus jobs, the UW can and should provide living wage jobs for ALL campus workers by redistributing funds from highly-paid administrators to the most marginalized workers on campus. If every other employer in Seattle can pay at least $15/hr, so can UW.

I am very concerned about the potential for serious harm to innocent students, professors, or other staff if young immature students are allowed to bring guns onto campuses.

California is second only to Florida in the number of golf courses it has: 921. Together, those courses use as much water as 2.8 million people, or about 7 percent of the state's population.

It's time to give them back their land.

Allowing people whose brains are yet to mature and so have poorer impulse control than they will later in life to carry concealed weapons in the emotionally charged atmosphere of a college campus is in really poor judgement. People could be harmed and die needlessly if this passes.