During car trips across the U.S., I noticed that most states do not have a lot of billboards. While returning home from a road trip from Florida I could tell when I was in Michigan because of the overwhelming amount of billboards. During car trips, kids and adults will usually rarely look outside the window; they mainly play on a mobile device or watch a movie. All in all, I think billboards are a very ugly and insufficient way to advertise. Getting rid of billboards will make Michigan even more beautiful.

Businesses and homeowners on LBI will suffer if vacation time is cancelled due to non-accessible beaches. Please change dates to end replenishment by Jun 20th and start up again August 29th, 2015. Our economy thanks you!

My petition is about how high schoolers should start school later in the morning because it is scientifically proven that the brain does not start working until 10am.

I'm starting this petition to ensure our California UC schools get the funding they need. In a world where many nations provide free higher education to their people, it is an embarrassment and a shame that deeply offends me that we have such a tremendous issue with student debt and the problem isn't going away: It's getting worse! This atrocity must end and we have to start that process now!

I am starting this petition I am unhappy by how much sugar is allowed and encouraged in the schools. My mother recently died from diabetes complications and I witnessed the results of a high sugar, low nutrition intake. No child should be encouraged to have ill health. Schools should instead create a statewide policy of eating healthy snacks, enjoying vegetables and finding it fun to bring healthy treats to school. Everyone benefits when you change the foods that are allowed in the schools to ones that are good for a child's overall health.

As a caring human being, and an atheist, I am horrified that Phil Robertson's comments go unchallenged and unremarked. The A&E organization directly funds the continuation of a television show lionizing this man and his family, and gives legitimacy to his hatred. That it was offered as an example of proper Christian behavior towards unbelievers is abhorrent and beyond the norms of civilized human behavior.

Mississippi is currently throwing away the opportunity to receive Federal funds that will positively impact the health of its most vulnerable citizens by expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act . The acceptance of such funds will also hold down the overall cost for health care borne by everyone paying through their insurance or out of pocket. The cost of healthcare in Mississippi has a direct effect on the recruitment of new business and human talent to our State. Refusing to take advantage of Federal monies that will without doubt improve the lot of Mississippians just because of ideological and political reasons is poor policy and just plain wrong. Having spent most of my career working to seek cures for children with cancer, I am mortified by the ideological paralysis that prevails over good and moral sense.

For the past 6 days, farm workers in Baja Norte’s San Quintín Valley have been on strike denouncing abysmally low wages, 12-hour days with no overtime, obligatory 7-day work weeks, and maltreatment. Worker Ana López says, “It is time for us to stand up… There are people who think that because we come from pueblos, we are ignorant about our rights.” The United Farm Workers of America is standing in solidarity with the workers from San Quintín and we ask that our supporters do the same. Ana works for Driscoll supplier Berrymex, whom workers claim that in addition to violating wage and hour laws, also fails to pay into workers’ social security (which is supposed to give workers access to healthcare and a pension), leaving them with nothing when they go to make a claim. Demand that the grocery retail industry hold powerful agribusiness companies such as Driscoll accountable. Please sign this petition. We will be turning this in to top grocery retailers around the country, including Target, Walmart, Krogers, and Albertsons/Safeway.

This petition is meant to bring awareness to the current issue of gun control. We need to defend the mandatory background check when individuals purchase any lethal firearm. Thank you for your consideration and the time you took to read and sign this petition. Reference: HF-527 and SF-425

To ask the NC lawmakers to extend the solar credit. The current bill expires in December.

On Friday, 3/20/15 Frederick Ippolito, Town of Oyster Bay Planning Commissioner, was arrested for six counts of tax evasion. Court papers say he failed to report more than $2 million in consulting fees from Hicksville-based Lizza and Sons from 2008 through 2013. Failure to report income to the IRS is tax evasion and a criminal offense. Acting as an agent of a contractor that performs work for the Town while also being employed by the Town is a violation of the Town’s code of ethics, section 30-4 Conflicts of Interest. Supervisor Venditto must terminate Frederick Ippolito from Town employment and must explain his and other town employee's knowledge of this ethics violation.

Jekyll Island is one of Georgia’s most beautiful places — and a state park that belongs to all Georgians. But in recent years, developers have threatened the island’s forests, marshes and beaches with overdevelopment. We respectfully ask you, Nathan Deal, governor of Georgia, to protect our Georgia shores from pollution and industrialization.