There is a need for a disabled resident to be able to safely navigate to neighbors housing without the fear of becoming stuck in her travels or even isolated.

I am a nurse with 35 years experience. I work at Christus St. Vincent hospital. I am a member of District 1199NM National Health Care Union of Hospital and Heath Care Employees. Parts of the hospital are chronically understaffed. This is a health and safety issue for both the patients and the staff. As part of contract negotiations 1199NM has asked for a guaranteed minimum level of staffing. The hospital administration is refusing to negotiate this. This is possible to do. California currently has a law mandating staffing levels. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded “staffing of RNs below target levels was associated with increased mortality.” The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania had the same finding.

In 2003, Ezekiel Iwarimie and his wife, Chioma, purchased their little piece of the “American Dream”– a home in the South Ward of Newark. Like many hard-working families trapped in inflated mortgages with predatory lending schemes the Iwarimies struggled, especially after Ezekiel lost his job as a social worker in 2009 and the family had to rely on Chioma’s income as a nurse. Unfortunately, predatory lending practices also sprouted a new bottom feeder industry of profiteers. Last year Garside Homes bought the Iwarimie family’s loan from an online scratch and dent site at a huge discount. Garside knew the family had already gone into foreclosure, but they saw dollar signs and moved quickly to make a profit from Ezekiel’s misfortune. The Iwarimies tried in good faith to negotiate a modification with Garside to save their home, but Garside refused. Instead, Garside sent two men to the home to threaten the family and demand that they turn over the original note to their home. Now, Garside has scheduled a sheriff’s sale of the Iwarimie’s home in the South Ward of Newark. Garside paid pennies on the dollar for the Iwarimie’s home…now they’re demanding the family pay them $418,000 or they lose their home! Please stand with the Iwarimie family and sign this petition!

The brutality of this Officer must not be condoned or permitted. The Sheriff's Department must hold this Officer accountable. The citizens of Montgomery County will not accept brutality by those sworn to serve and protect.

Back in the Cold War days, people were terrified that there would be a nuclear war. Guess what? The danger is still here and it is growing. We are living on borrowed time. Over the next few weeks, President Obama will be making a decision about whether the United States will participate in a historic summit on nuclear weapons that will include delegations from countries around the globe. In 2009 and several times since, President Obama has said that America is committed "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” But since actions speak louder than words, this petition asks Obama to be a leader in reducing the danger of nuclear weapons. There are more than 16,000 nuclear warheads still left in the world, most of them much more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 93% are in the arsenals of the US and Russia. For decades we've been told that we don't have to worry about them--that the US and Russia would never get into a war. It's hard to take those assurances seriously in light of the Ukraine crisis where Russian and U.S. allies are fighting a hot war in the middle of Europe. Even if the US and Russia don't stumble into a war through some crisis like Ukraine, there is always the danger of an accident triggering a nuclear conflict. Plus, recent research has shown that even a very "limited" war, such as between India and Pakistan, involving less than 1% of the world's nuclear arsenals, would trigger global climate disruption, cut food production across the world and lead to a "nuclear famine" that would put 2 billion people at risk. Fortunately, a new, global movement is underway to ban nuclear weapons on the basis of their unacceptable humanitarian impacts. In February, 2014, representatives of 146 nations, 3/4 of the world, met in Mexico to discuss what will happen if these weapons are used and what we can do to prevent that. But the United States BOYCOTTED the meeting! The well-entrenched military-industrial complex plans to spend a trillion dollars over the next 30 years on “modernizing” the American arsenal. There will be a follow-up Humanitarian Impact Conference this December, in Vienna. This time, the U.S. should take the high road, constructively attend, and provide leadership to this urgent campaign to rid the world of the greatest threat to human survival.

It is hard for convicted felons to move on with their lives when the society we live limits us from living in positive neighborhoods and does not allow us to clean our records. Living in recovery is hard enough, and being forced to live in the same neighborhoods that we grew up in makes it even harder. Finding jobs is also an issue. If we had the ability to prove our recovery in order to expunge records it would make our lives more successful and reduce recidivism.

Japan's dolphin slaughter killing 23,000 dolphins and whales per year, exposed in the 2009 documentary "The Cove", is set to continue September 1st 2014 until April 2015. Blackfish is showing us currently how global support can cripple unjust action - It's time to Blackfish the Cove and end this tragedy for good.

Every year parents go through stress and depression finding and registering their kids in a (yeshiva) Jewish school . Kids go through stress and humiliation next to their friends because they might not be in the same school next year because their parents can't afford the school tuition any longer. I personally go through hell every year trying to keep my kids in school and to not drop out at a very young age like most of our community children do just to end the headache and depression the whole family has every school year.

A growing number of major grocery store chains have made commitments to not sell GMO salmon. Even if the FDA approves this risky fish, by ensuring that the world's largest retailers refuse to sell it, we can send a strong message that there is no market for it. Unfortunately, despite the fact that more than 35,000 people have written to Costco's CEO asking him to commit to keep GMO fish off store shelves, this retail giant is still lagging behind its competition. So now we need to turn up the heat and flood Costco's customer service inbox. Tell Costco to join its competitors and just say no to GMO salmon!

The purpose of this petition is to let decision makers at the Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) know that many are in support of water polo being recognized as a sanctioned UIL sport. UIL adoption will increase participation, ensure equal access for student athletes, create a standard league structure and provide a safe playing environment.

I want the county I live in to change their clean air act so that people can use their electronic cigarettes and personal vaping devices inside. Leave it up to individual business owner to make the choice as to wether or not people can do this in their establishments. By banning them they are forcing people who have quit smoking to have to be in designated smoking areas.

Madison, TN, located minutes from downtown Nashville, was once a beautiful town offering the community a lovely quality of life. Now, it is inundated with cash advance, payday loan, title loan, strange tax service and pawn establishments. These kinds of businesses MUST be CONTROLLED THROUGH STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATION! Other states are doing this! These predatory businesses ARE taking over our community and will delay our NashvilleNext Madison Community planning strategies as valuable commercial real estate is snatched up by these predators. SAVE MADISON, TN, FROM THESE BUSINESSES DESTROYING THE INTEGRITY OF OUR COMMUNITY! We have 23 credit loan, quick cash, title loan, and mysterious "tax service" places between Due West Ave and Anderson Lane, in less than two miles along Gallatin!!