Senate Bill 541 has created a platform for Election Regulations that would allow more money into elections and take control away from WV voters. This would scare even more West Virginians away from participating in the political process. This is OUR State and we need to REMOVE the powerful influence of in-state and out-of-state Corporations and those that hide behind Non-Profit Organizations.

A friend of mine is being stalked and harassed by someone, but she has been told that there is nothing the law can do to help her. She doesn't feel safe, and I think this is a huge failure in our system.

We are facing ten years in prison after getting arrested and accused of cultivating cannabis--not for distribution and profit, but for medical treatment and research.

I am tired of seeing Jewish students attacked verbally and physically in our schools, Universities and Institutions. We must stand up to this hatred and ignorance. Violence and confrontations are not the way to make change happen. Understanding, cooperation, and education will stamp out anti-Semitism and hatred!

My great grandkids are with cps and in foster care. They need to be with family and we are denied the right to see them. There was no abuse or neglect 4th amendment and 14th amendment violated.

Local families are struggling harder and harder just to stay afloat. Figuring out how to keep our parents living with us is hard, but it is good for our family and good for society. Japan and South Korea do it, we can too.

Clint has been away from his family, friends and children for over 12 years. Clint is remorseful for his past and ready for everyone to meet the new Clint who wants to be a positive influence on all he knows and meets.

Americans owe over $1.3 trillion in student debt. Eighty-six percent of that money is owed to the United States government. This is a crushing burden for more than 40 million Americans and their families. It's time for immediate action to relieve them of this burden -- by forgiving all government-held debt, and purchasing the rest so that it can be forgiven, too. Be a Student Debt Voter, and join the fight for the Student Debt Jubilee.

While we understand that the BYOD policy is helpful during our budget cuts and allows CCPS to spend less money on technology, there are a number of problems with the BYOD policy for Carroll County Elementary Schools: A few of the problems, but not limited to this list are... 1. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Students are playing individual video games on their devices during indoor recess instead of socially interacting with other students. (1) A study out of UCLA proved that kids who were deprived of screens for five days got much better at reading people’s emotions than kids who continued their normal screen-filled lives. 2. BRING YOUR OWN DISTRACTION: When the device belongs to the student, it can be loaded with plenty of games, social networking apps, inappropriate content, and who knows what else. Students are playing these games and looking at these apps before the school bell, during lunch, during free time and at recess. The possibilities for this sort of distracting content and software are undoubtedly increased in an open BYOD scenario. If a student is limited to having the device out only when doing class work, they will likely not be accessing these apps, games, and content during the day and other students will be less likely exposed to this content as well. 3. INTERNET CONTENT FILTERING: This is a necessary fact of tech life in most schools – Internet content must be filtered. When kids are bringing their own tech to school, it makes it increasingly harder to manage, and this is only becoming more problematic thanks to the increasing proliferation of 3G and 4G wireless personal devices. An open and very unlimited BYOD program would only add to these complications, and make it that much harder for a technology department to ensure compliance with content filtering objectives and the protection of students from inappropriate content while in school. 4. The HAVE and HAVE NOT Syndrome: School life is challenging enough for some elementary school children (and their parents) without the additional pressure of having to deal with not having a device. The less fortunate kids should not have to face this every day. We do our best to not expose them when it comes to free and reduced lunches, but now we are pointing them out. 5. SCREEN TIME LIMITS: Many families are trying to limit screen times at home because there are many studies that prove too much screen time is unhealthy for your brain, your eyes, your mental health and your physical health. (2) According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids ages 8-18 now spend, on average, a whopping 7.5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment each day. We don't need to add to this time by playing on devices at school. 6. CHILDHOOD OBESITY: As pointed out above, the average child spends 7.5 hours in front of a screen. That is more than any other activity except for sleeping. (3) Too much time parked in front of the television or computer screen is driving the epidemic of childhood obesity in the U.S., according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Students need to be encouraged to put the devices down and move. Our very unlimited BYOD policies do not promote physical activity. We need to be the voice for our children and limit the BYOD policy for their health, safety, and well being. ------------------------------------------- (1) Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues Yalda T. Uhlsa, , , Minas Michikyanb, Jordan Morrisc, Debra Garciad, b, Gary W. Smalle, Eleni Zgourouf, Patricia M. Greenfielda (2) Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use. The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions. (3) Strasburger VC, et al "Policy statement -- Children, adolescents, obesity, and the media" Pediatrics 2011; 128: 201–208.

As a Miami-Dade College student I speak on the behalf of MDC and our desire for a break during the Spring semester.

Diseases we thought were eradicated are now making a comeback because of falling vaccination rates among school children. Do what you can to protect our community and sign this petition please.

Senate Bill 541 has created a platform for Election Regulations the Remove Control of the voters at large. This is OUR State and we need to increase bi-partisan voter participation and REMOVE the persuasions of in-state and out-of-state Corporations and those that hide behind Non-Profit Organizations.