Same Day Registration places a burden on the individual voter, not the county election offices or polling places. Any Voter willing to first go to the county election office, before going to a polling place precludes any possible Voter Fraud. STOP this movement to restrict US Citizens from their Right to Vote.

At a time when Illinois is considering laying off 13,000 teachers, cutting college scholarships for 30,000 students and evicting hundreds of veterans from supportive housing, state representative Marty Moylan voted to protect almost $500 million in wasteful corporate tax loopholes — instead of making corporations pay their fair share. If enough of us tell Marty we disapprove of his vote, we can convince him to reverse course and support House Bill 390, a bill that would close $500 million annually in corporate tax loopholes and provide much needed revenue for schools, infrastructure and public safety. When big, profitable corporations don’t pay their fair share, the rest of us pay more. Our income taxes provide more than 55% of Illinois’ revenue, but corporate income taxes provide a meager 9% of state revenue. Let’s make sure Rep. Moylan knows we’re counting on him to represent his constituents, not helping corporations dodge their taxes.

End the war against women

We do not believe in frequent high-stakes testing for children. We refuse to subject our children to yet another standardized assessment that negatively impacts their curricular and instructional choices. The data that will be stored on our children without a parent's permission is a violation and should be stopped immediately. We, the undersigned, believe that using test scores to evaluate teaching and learning is unjust and inequitable. Rather than pouring time, energy, and money into a new testing program, we demand that the district and the state reevaluate the ways in which they measure school and student achievement. New Jersey students deserve better. No creemos en exámenes estandarizados de riesgos altos. Rechazamos presentar a nuestros hijos con exámenes estandarizados que afectan negativamente sus opciones de enseñanza e instrucción. La información que se collecta de nuestro hijos sin autorización parental es una violación y debe ser parada inmediatamente. Nosotros, los firmadores de esta petición, creemos que el uso de esta examinación para evaluar la enseñanza y el aprender es injusta y inequitable. En vez de invertir tiempo, dinero, energía, y dinero en examinaciones nuevas, exigimos que el distrito y el estado re-evalúen las maneras usadas para evaluar el progreso de las escuelas y los estudiantes. Los estudiantes de New Jersey merecen mejor.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Pennsylvania have a condition which could be helped by treatment using some form of medical cannabis. Cannabis is one of the oldest medicines in the world, and is the safest therapeutically active substance known to mankind. It has been scientifically studied in great detail. Cancer, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy and seizures, nausea, Alzheimers, ALS, Cronh's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, chronic pain, arthritis, glaucoma, dementia, depression, PTSD, and many other conditions are all at least partially treatable with cannabis. Healthcare practitioners need to have this medicine available as a treatment option for their patients. For many patients, including many young children with forms of intractable epilepsy such as Dravet Syndrome, they face the possibility of death in the time it takes the legislature to act. For the rest, cannabis is the best medicinal hope remaining for re-gaining - at least partially - a normal life. Many times, cannabis can be a better treatment option than conventional pharmaceuticals. There is nothing worse than watching someone you care about suffer, except when you have the ability to do something to help. You have the ability to help, simply by making medical cannabis a priority for the remaining days in the 2013-2014 House session. We hereby request that House leadership immediately put HB2182 (Rep. Cox) - or SB1182 (Sens. Folmer & Leach), if it has already passed the Senate by now - onto the House legislative agenda for consideration.

We community members understand that "fiscal responsibility" means spending money in the right way. We are aware that without superb teachers in our classrooms, it won't matter how much money tax-payers spend on technology or curriculum.

There has been gun shootings in American schools, but these shooting are a minority to the other types of gun violence in the states. We need to discuss the problems with guns; not to bring more guns into the situation. This includes enforcing our teachers and faculty to use guns in a school environment.

Keeping Dan, a founding member of the league, involved is a huge concern. If he leaves who will be next. It is important for the integrity of the league for years to come.

A few weeks ago nearly 1,500 individual supporters signed a petition supporting the Iwarimie family’s fight to save their home. Shortly afterwards hundreds of supports called Ray Salerno, the President of Garside Homes, to appeal to him personally on the family’s behalf. Despite the growing movement of people supporting the Iwarimies, Garside Homes is moving full speed ahead to put another New Jersey family out on the streets. Garside Homes is in the business of preying on families facing foreclosure – and their shady behavior raises serious red flags. They scoop up distressed mortgages for pennies on the dollar and bully homeowners into leaving their homes in order for Garside to reap huge profits. Not only that, the building featured as Garside Homes’ office on the company’s website is a sham – Garside’s sign has been PhotoShopped onto the building, which they’ve never occupied – we know because we went there and asked. Why the deceit? We need to send a strong message to Garside Homes that their business practices are not welcome in Newark or anywhere else. Will you sign this petition to let them know you support the Iwarimie family and want Garside to drop the foreclosure suit against them? On Friday, September 19th, a judge will re-consider the Iwarimie’s foreclosure case. We hope justice will prevail in the court, but Garside Homes could drop the case altogether if they choose. Please sign this petition (which will send emails to Garside Homes staffers) - let them know that thousands of people are watching them, and that we won’t stand quietly in the shadows while deceitful opportunists prey on hard-working homeowners!

Loopholes in the Clean Water Act are threatening Lake Michigan and all of Illinois' waterways. Just this year 32, 000 people enjoyed Illinois waterways, and millions of people statewide rely on Lake Michigan and other watersheds for drinking water. Polluters should be held accountable!

I believe the Great Spirit has shown me this vision. The Native American Counsel of Nations assuming our government in peace and equality and caring for mother earth. I am of German descent. I am going to California in October to speak with the Chief of the Tule River Tribe and it would be a blessing to have signatures, that will be a revelation for the Natives to understand our forgiveness and desperation as our government continues to send our children to foreign lands to secure the 'investments' of the elite few.

The City of Milwaukee stands for the right to choose solar power. We Energies would eliminate that choice as well as raising rates on all ratepayers. We Energies needs to hear from its ratepayers that you will not be penalized for reducing your energy load through solar, other renewable's, or energy efficiency.