An out of town developer proposes 50 dwelling units on Sombrero Beach Road from Publix to Marathon High School. We need your help to save our community character and our well used community path. It's NOT A DONE DEAL! Please show your support to protect our gateway to beautiful Sombrero Beach at our next City Council Meeting: Tuesday, January 13 5:30 P.M. @ Marathon Government Center Please attend the meeting above, forward this petition to your friends and colleagues, and write or call your city councilmen.

Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz took control of the DNC in May of 2011. And while she has been comfortably “tucked in bed” in her own district, her complete lack of messaging and dissemination of available resources has cost us two consecutive congressional defeats. She also distanced herself from the President and his policies in the 2014 election. We got crushed. And now, what can only be described as the debacle of the Democratic debate schedule unfolds. The obvious structuring of this schedule and its limited number seem to prove Ms. Wasserman-Schultz has ulterior motives. We Democrats cannot have a person of such electoral criticality so compromised by her personal preferences, and ambition. Every second that this leadership is in place is another second the Democratic Party concedes congress to the Republicans. She never took any responsibility for her miserable failures in our previous two elections. Our current message in news cycles is invisible as is she. And I believe that this now even jeopardizes our crucial need to hold onto the White House in 2016. Honorable people who have failed so miserably in their mission would hurry to apologize and get out of the way. But apparently, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz’s hubris will not allow her to do so. Please sign this petition to remove Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the DNC Chair.

Dairy Creek West was pulled into the urban growth boundary by a back-room deal. A meeting with developers and elected officials occurred on February 23, 2014 in the City of Hillsboro that was not advertised to the public. The meeting had no minutes and no attendance sheets. None of the landowners of Dairy Creek West were invited to this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated Statewide Planning Goal #1 that encourages public involvement through the entire planning process. This bill was passed on February 28th, 2014 five days after this meeting giving no reasonable notification to landowners of what transpired at this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated the landowners of Dairy Creek West 5th Amendment right of due process on their land. It also went around the public process listed in Title 11 and 14 of Metro Code. This code requires notification of landowners when their land is being considered to be placed into the urban growth boundary because of the monetary and livelihood impacts to landowners. It evens offers the opportunity for the landowners to say whether they want their land to be included in the urban growth boundary and why. Since the passage of House Bill 4078, it has placed undue stress on the landowners of Dairy Creek West as they now must try to protect their rural lifestyle. Find out more at http://www.334thavenue.org/

During his tenure as a Senator from Colorado, Mark Udall has been a champion of government transparency: on privacy and government surveillance, secret law, torture, and drone strikes. Sen. Udall lost his re-election bid this November, which puts him in a unique position to carry out one final mission to advance government transparency. News reports have indicated that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report details not only brutal abuse the CIA perpetrated on detainees, but also illegal deception CIA officials conducted on Congress and other executive branch officials about the program in order to evade democratic and legal accountability. The CIA has been preventing the report from becoming public. This is information the public deserves to know—and there is a way to get it to the people without the approval of the CIA. In 1971, Sen. Mike Gravel, frustrated with attempts to make the Pentagon Papers public through ordinary channels, used a key provision of the U.S. Constitution to get the documents published. According to the Speech and Debate Clause, members of Congress have an absolute free-speech right on the floor or in committee—even if what they say includes classified information. [1] So Gravel—along with an aide—read the entire Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, which is published for anyone to read. Government transparency advocates are now urging Sen. Udall to follow Gravel’s lead and read the Senate intelligence committee’s torture report into the congressional record. [2] The worst punishment he’d face would be censorship or expulsion by his colleagues—but since he is out of office in January in any event, he has little to fear. Urge Senator Udall to use this unique opportunity to defend the public interest and let the American people know about the CIA’s use of torture by signing our petition. References: 1. “Senator Who Put Pentagon Papers Into Public Record Urges Udall To Do Same With Torture Report,” Dan Froomkin, The Intercept, November 10, 2014, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/10/mike-gravel-senator-put-pentagon-papers-public-record-urges-udall-torture-report 2. “Mark Udall's loss is a blow for privacy, but he can go out with a bang: 'leak' the CIA torture report,” Trevor Timm, The Guardian, November 5, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/mark-udall-loss-privacy-cia-torture-report

AARP, whose own "R.I.G.H.T Ethical Decision-Making Model" demands that they "hold their decisions up to the mirror" must do so with it's current business partnership with Walmart, who is selling the AARP RealPad Tablet and whose labor practices are infamously poor, unethical, immoral, unjust and unfair. As recently as January of 2014 the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Walmart, asserting that it had broken U.S. labor laws during the Black Friday strikes of 2012 and 2013. AARP should stop doing business through and with Walmart and remove the AARP RealPad from Walmart shelves and it's online catalog.

Experiments on great apes are permitted only if they are absolutely necessary to improve human health, if no other animal should be used instead, and it is impossible to conduct studies on men for reasons ethical. Apes therefore are likely to continue to be used for research of vaccines against hepatitis C and the development of monoclonal antibodies. Studies on the behavior and genetics of great apes including chimpanzees and must obey strict clauses regarding their habitat and their conditions of detention. Thus, because of the need for primates (as men) to maintain social relationships, they should be kept in groups of at least 7 monkeys, with 100 square meters of space per animal and the ability to climb when they wish. The next fight for American animal rights associations will be with private laboratories and US universities, which still retain 350 chimpanzees for research.

To investigate possible Treason and High Crimes committed by the Bush Administration on September 11, 2001, and the far reaching Cover Up of those Crimes. To take Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and Wolfowitz into custody during their trial in "Saleh v Bush" in NW District Federal Court, San Francisco, CA. November 13, 2014. (ref Comar Law)

Now that there is lacrosse at the middle and high school level, Clear Creek needs its own youth program to feed into those. Mtn Area Lacrosse has been an option in the past, but they are at least a 20 - 40 minute drive for Clear Creek residents. We need a program closer and more convenient for our families.

As the costs of housing, food, health care and other basic necessities continue to rise dramatically, Georgia’s minimum wage has stalled at its 2002 level of just $5.15 an hour -- the lowest of any state in the country. Georgia has one of the highest percentages of minimum wage workers in the country -- 6.4 percent of Georgia workers earn minimum wage vs. 4.7 percent of workers nationally. And about half of all minimum-wage workers nationwide are over the age of 24. In Georgia, a minimum-wage worker at the federal rate of $7.25 an hour would have to work 79 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. A majority of Georgia voters support raising the minimum wage, which would benefit hundreds of thousands of Georgia workers, their children and their families, while giving a huge boost to local economies.

We the voters of Illinois and nationwide believe that because of the undue political influence exerted by those who are only meant to provide pastoral counsel, many races in Illinois and around the country were tainted. Ultimately, electing some officials selected by the church instead of the people. We feel that our rights as Americans were violated and we are seeking justice.

For years I have been concerned of how short our children’s lunch is way too short. It's stressful on them. They do not have time to eat even half of their lunch. On an average a child will have 8-15 (it's closer to 8-10) many parents are concerned with what is taking place with all the children. Standing in the lunch line is awful. A change needs to take place within the lunchroom as well to speed up the process. Children are being excused for recess while many students are still trying to eat their lunch. It then becomes a mad dash to get out to recess. I have personally seen what takes place in my school's lunch room on a daily basis. I have taken time stamped photos as proof. My two children who attend Arbor Heights School (it is a wonderful school) have always complained how there is no time to eat lunch. They bring home mostly full lunch boxes all the time. Many other parents complain about the same thing. The kids also say being late to lunch is a common occurrence. I sat at the tables the other day. I asked the kids questions, such as how long is the lunch line. They all said that the line can go all the way to the other side of the lunch room. A child in that lunch line would really suffer by the time they found a seat and sat down to eat. Many other schools are affected by this short lunch issue as well. In fact this issue seams to be district wide. Change must occur NOW. The Seattle School District has said it will take many months to come up with a solution. I disagree. Trim 5 minutes off the day and extend the day to 3pm. I have discussed this with a few teachers already. it's really quite simple. Of course we will be told it is actually quite complicated. That gives them time to do nothing, or pretend they are working on it. Short lunches are a slap in the face to our young children. It’s an outrage after you really start hearing the children’s and parents stories. We need to start being more mindful of the care of our little ones. Our wonderful teachers are spread too thin. They need our help. Together we can ALL make a difference- for the kids! Please take the time to support this very important cause. Our children’s health and well being is at stake. https://www.facebook.com/groups/LunchMatters/permalink/1546694718905348/ A proposed plan- Lunch is now 20 min Recess is now 20 min On a larger teacher time segment (5 minutes deducted from teachers daily schedule) Extend the school day to 3pm (10 minutes added) That will make lunch 30 minutes and recess 20 minutes with a 5 minute grace period to actually get to lunch on time or for kids to wash their hands. Problem solved? Peace

I have reached my limit with these racist slurs from this Gov. and other Republicans. This kind of denied racism inflames bigotry and prejudice, making it more prominent and acceptable in our language and culture. It needs to stop.