UC Berkeley recently converted from a monthly pay-cycle to a biweekly pay cycle creating errors in everything from take home pay to benefit accruals. These errors hurt the hardest working and lowest paid employees at UC Berkeley.

It's already difficult to find parking in Albany Park as well as other neighborhoods. One of the galling things about the dibs system is that many people who assert dibs to a parking spot don't do much work to clear the snow. They assert a "right" to a parking spot based on their car being there during the snow storm, not doing quality work. Chicago parking works better if everyone clears their own spot & shovels the snow on the parkways NOT in between the cars.

Hi my name is Dawatha Davis I had been emailing and calling agency to get help for my son. He was sentence to 20 years to life mandatory for a crime he didn't commit. He was just 16 when this all started. He took a plea at the end but was lied to by his lawyer. The lawyer stated he would do lesser time if he took the plea but when all was done it was a mandatory sentence. That was not the deal he stated not only to my son but me and my family as well. Please help me my son never had a record at all! He didn't get a fair trial. The lawyer did not call anyone to testify on my sin behalf. Not even me if you can help me please.

Public health officials have tied the rise in pertussis and measles to the lowering of the vaccination rate. If this trend continues, the immunity of the entire population is threatened (known as ‘herd immunity’). Dangerous communicable diseases will spread further, and will also affect people who have been vaccinated—those with weakened immune systems, the very young, the very old, and the like. This petition seeks to address falling vaccination rates by requiring all children to be vaccinated in order to attend Oregon schools unless they have a medical condition that precludes it.

The California Department of Public Health has reported a sharp rise in the incidence of pertussis (whooping cough) over the past four years, declaring this disease an epidemic in 2014. There was an outbreak of measles in 2014 as well. The Los Angeles Times and numerous other media sources have published data on vaccine rates in Southern California showing the widespread use of the “personal belief exemption” (CA Code 120365) by parents to excuse their children from mandatory vaccinations. Public health officials have tied the rise in pertussis and measles to the lowering of the vaccination rate. If this trend continues, the immunity of the entire population is threatened (known as ‘herd immunity’). Dangerous communicable diseases will spread further, and will also affect people who have been vaccinated—those with weakened immune systems, the very young, the very old, and the like. This petition seeks to address falling vaccination rates by requiring all children to be vaccinated in order to attend California schools unless they have a medical condition that precludes it.

As parent of a High school student, I think this change will make a difference to all students' health and academic achievement. It can be done: please see http://www.startschoollater.net/success-stories.html

I followed the rules. I spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours studying how the immigration system works. I wrote a 500 page application. Like many others, I want my family to stay together. I am a US Citizen. Why is forgiving illegals with DACA so much more important than keeping my family together? Why am I being punished for following the rules? Why should legal immigrants who jump through so many hoops suffer to give way to illegal immigrants who openly violated those same laws?

Corruption in our political system is not the only issue facing our nation but it is, by and large, THE FIRST! We can fix the ongoing corruption at the federal level, but the states MUST ACT. Let's make New Hampshire the 4th in the nation to pass a resolution calling for an Article V Convention of the States. Let's get money out of politics, one state at a time! For more information: https://legiscan.com/NH/drafts/HCR2/2015

Currently, Florida law enforcement officers are taught they can determine drunk driving and illegal drug driving based on a set of three medical tests that you many of you will fail for over 500 medical reasons. It you fail these tests you are going to jail. Period. Street drunk and drug testing or "field sobriety testing" (FST) is actually advanced brain or neurologist physician testing. So If your are tired, a poor learner, scared, dehydrated, in pain, a diabetic, suffering with a headache, or even a poor skater or gymnast, you are going to jail. Why? Because you have no practice doing these complex medical tests or you have a medical problem that limits your skill at field testing. If you fail this testing fully sober and drug-free, you are still going to jail. You will be arrested, handcuffed with sharp steel rings tight on your wrists, your car will be searched as you wait, and you will spend many hours or days in jail, after you are aggressively searched, put in inmate clothing, fingerprinted, photographed for the morning news and fed food fit for dogs. Even if you are able to pay what a judge eventually determines is your bail, and are released until a hearing or trial, you will lose a good deal of money, time, and you will suffer. You can lose items of value in your care after your car is taken. You have to "bail out" your towed car. You need to hire a lawyer. You have misc. legal and court fees to pay. You will have to explain to your boss or clients, why you are in the paper and why you have been gone one or more days. This is simply law officers playing doctor who will never be skilled enough to understand the hundreds of variables that effect the three field sobriety tests. Hundreds of physical limitations or diseases undermine your ability to perform these field sobriety tests (FST) and these illnesses can be found in the free book, Sobriety Testing, by James Schaller, MD and Kim Mountjoy, MS at www.personalconsult.com, or in a hard copy at your favorite book store. Years ago a tired, dehydrated neurologist left an educational conference in Tampa, because a seizure patient became angry at him and was acting psychotic. To protect the rest of Hotel and patrons, he told the patient he was leaving, and talked to over ten people as he loaded his many files, books and clothing as a local police woman talked with him over thirty minutes. Video shows him driving and loading perfectly. Ninety seconds after leaving the hotel he was stopped and told to reverse in a complex manner which he did perfectly. He produced his ID materials quickly, and yet after he failed field sobriety testing after sitting handcuffed a long time in boiling Tampa blacktop, he was arrested. The arresting officer refused to talk to the hotel police officer who assisted the physician in moving his car closer for loading. The neurologist was speaking and writing at the conference, and had hundreds of books with him--so many it took him an hour to load his car at times feet away from this hotel officer. After the arrest, the officer lied and said the neurologist was slurring words and mumbling, when from taped messages left minutes before he drove, it is clear his voice was perfect. The field sobriety test trouble gave the officer confidence to "load the report" with items consistent with a drunk person. All charges were eventually dropped as they waited weeks for the drug testing to return. No alcohol or illegal drugs were found. Yet the entire process cost over 7,000 and the neurologist reports he will never trust law enforcement again. This arrest is eternal even if the charges are dropped, and in some counties, the prosecution will almost never drop a charge due to the prosecution ideology. The attorney general office can have the goal of justice, balance, high convictions at any cost or income earning plea deals. Just remember, this may all happen because of an old rear light or you did not fully stop three seconds at a stop sign. A smart law officer can usually find some reason to full you over. Most of you will fear law enforcement the rest of your life. You will likely stop assisting good law enforcement with tips or help them fight crime based on this unjust experience. That attitude is a massive loss to ethical and high quality law officers who need citizens to help them oppose serious crime. It also undermines the dangers of impaired drivers, who must be stopped from causing dangerous crashes.

On January 20, 2015, I was on my way home to my apartment across 8th from FIU when I was almost run over by an SUV. I was in the street because the sidewalk has been closed due to construction. In order to avoid being hit I moved closer to the construction fence and ended up falling on my face and breaking my nose. This is not the first dangerous encounter I have had with cars while walking to school. With enrollment at an all time high of near 54,000 students , walking on campus is a pain and skating unfathomable because it feels as though everyone is being corralled. FIU's MMC consists of 342.2 acres and 109 permanent buildings. All students, bikers, skaters, walkers and roller- bladers alike should be provided with safe passage to and from class.

A wonderful girl who we all grew up with in the Whitman cluster is going to have to move schools, going to a (sometimes labeled "worse") school because she is not allowed to keep attending the same school she has been for her whole life. Is that really fair?

We aim to join the movement to curb climate change through moving institutional investments from companies that support fossil fuel use and development to more sustainable options in an effort to uphold Goucher College's community principles to responsibility and sustainability.