Justice For Marcus B. Van Cleaf This Petition is to draw community awareness and concern after the recent Murder of Marcus B. Van Cleaf, a 32 year old Great Grand Son, Grandson, Son, Father, Brother, Nephew, Cousin, Uncle and Friend who was murdered Saturday, June 21, 2014. This petition will be used to bring awareness of an Illegal After Hours Club operating in a residential area on the Near East Side of Columbus, OH. This After Hours Club, located at 1323 East Fulton Avenue, Columbus, OH 43205 is located on the Northeast corner of Kimball and Fulton and has been in existence over the past 30 years as an after-hours night club responsible for 5 murders since the late 70s, various drug activity, fights, shootings, prostitution, and illegal liquor sales. As a community, we would like for the City of Columbus to condemn and demolish said building and use (if available) allocated funds from the City’s budget to convert the land into a Memorial Park in Honor of those who have lost their lives at the hands of this establishment. By signing this petition you agree that enough is enough and how many more people have to die at the hands of this establishment. Ohio Revised Code Title [37] XXXVII HEALTH - SAFETY - MORALS Chapter 3767: NUISANCES 3767.01 Nuisances - disorderly houses definitions. As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances: (A) "Place" includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself; (B) "Person" includes any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent, or assignee; (C) "Nuisance" means any of the following: (1) That which is defined and declared by statutes to be a nuisance; (2) Any place in or upon which lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted, permitted, continued, or exists, or any place, in or upon which lewd, indecent, lascivious, or obscene films or plate negatives, film or plate positives, films designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition films, or glass slides either in negative or positive form designed for exhibition by projection on a screen, are photographed, manufactured, developed, screened, exhibited, or otherwise prepared or shown, and the personal property and contents used in conducting and maintaining any such place for any such purpose. This chapter shall not affect any newspaper, magazine, or other publication entered as second class matter by the post-office department. (3) Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place where beer or intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, or kept in violation of law and all property kept and used in maintaining the same, and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of beer or intoxicating liquor and beer or intoxicating liquor contained in the room, house, building, boat, structure, or place, or the operation of such a room, house, building, boat, structure, or place as described in division (C)(3) of this section where the operation of that place substantially interferes with public decency, sobriety, peace, and good order. "Violation of law" includes, but is not limited to, sales to any person under the legal drinking age as prohibited in division (A) of section 4301.22 or division (A) of section 4301.69 of the Revised Code and any violation of section 2913.46 or 2925.03 of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 03-30-1999 3767.02 Nuisance. (A) Any person, who uses, occupies, establishes, or conducts a nuisance, or aids or abets in the use, occupancy, establishment, or conduct of a nuisance; the owner, agent, or lessee of an interest in any such nuisance; any person who is employed in that nuisance by that owner, agent, or lessee; and any person who is in control of that nuisance is guilty of maintaining a nuisance and shall be enjoined as provided in sections 3767.03 to 3767.11 of the Revised Code

STOP THE GREED! Put an end to the rising number of evictions in San Francisco, CA, using the Ellis Act, which allows landlords to evict tenants, temporarily shut down a rental property, and then sell it at a profit.

The Koch brothers use their billions to fund radical right wing causes. The very least we can do is not support their efforts by not buying their products. If Costco and other retailers step up and stop carrying the products it will have a bigger impact. What the Koch brothers support is in opposition to many of the things Costco promotes.

The Republicans in the US House have not acted in the best interest of the American People. It is time that they are accountable for what they have not done.

The safety device that would have saved Janio Salinas was removed just 13 days before his death, and was put in after other workers were almost sucked under by the machines.

For Jeffrey Baldwin and the Toronto citizens who remember him, Superman is a symbol of love and hope even in the face of man's extreme cruelty.

The whole reason this rule has existed since Watergate is that paying for ritzy vacations is the easiest way for a corporation to know someone’s vote has been bought and paid for. And if we don’t speak out while the ink is still wet, it will be open season on political corruption.

We can't let Congress promise us meaningful reform and then betray our privacy rights all over again.

Because he won't do the will of the American people and apparently cannot think of the good of the majority. I read about the EPA, climate change and infrastructure of the US that is devastating worse because he is so bad at being the Whip..And by the way Boehner: what have you done about promoting jobs? Schools are being devastated, along with teachers...

Super PACs are evading our disclosure laws and influencing elections in Massachusetts. The needs of the average citizens are being pushed aside to focus on the needs of big money. The Massachusetts Disclosure Bill calls for transparency. Super PACs would be required to disclose their funding sources in real time instead of keeping voters in the dark. Voters deserve to know where the money funding these Super PACs is coming from.

Oregon’s health insurers must get permission from state officials before they can raise premiums on individuals and small businesses. For several years, OSPIRG Foundation has put a magnifying glass to premium hike proposals, and thousands of OSPIRG members have emailed and called the state’s Insurance Division. All this additional scrutiny has helped cut over $155 million in waste from health insurance premiums since 2010. Now, we've dug into the latest rate hike proposals from four of Oregon’s top insurers. None of them has done enough to justify the prices they’ve proposed. • Moda is proposing a 12.5% rate hike on over 95,000 Oregonians, without outlining a plan for passing along cost savings from health reform to their members. • PacificSource, which initially proposed a 15.9% increase, has already admitted that their proposal was based on errors that would have overcharged their customers. They revealed the mistake only after it became clear that the original proposal was more expensive than many other health plans – such as Providence, which is proposing a 16% decrease in premiums for identical coverage. • Health Net and United are paying more for emergency room visits than many other insurers, yet they are both proposing big rate increases without demonstrating that they are doing all they can to reduce these costs and keep their members out of the ER. With study after study showing that one-third of health care spending is waste, we can’t afford anything but a full-court press for more effective use of our health care dollars.

Styrofoam (Polystyrene foam) is terrible for the planet! - Up to 30% of landfill space is filled with Styrofoam and other plastics - When Styrofoam is dumped in the environment, it is notorious for breaking up into pieces and clogging animals digestive systems - Toxic Chemicals can leach out of Styrofoam products into food that can effect human health and reproductive organs. As the third largest city in the United States, it is your responsibility to lead by example and ban Styrofoam containers in Chicago. As potential tourists and residents of Chicago, we urge you to ban Styrofoam containers in Chicago