As New York City public school students, we applaud Comptroller Stringer and Mayor de Blasio for recognizing the power of arts education to improve academic outcomes, especially for young people who live and go to school in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. As leaders in our community, youth in arts education, future voters and future members of the city’s workforce, we urge the de Blasio administration, Comptroller Stringer, Carmen Fariña, the City Council and other city leaders to create a youth board to ensure the $20 million arts education funds are distributed to the schools and programs in communities that need and demand arts education. As youth leaders, we want to ensure our city leaders make good on the promise and ensure that all New York City public school students receive the comprehensive and state-mandated arts education they deserve regardless of who they are, or where they live.

As a long time California taxpayer, I am appalled at the high number of foreign students and out of state students are accepted by UC SD, UCBerkely, UCI, UCD, etc, compared to the low number of qualified California applicants accepted. Hghly qualified children of friends, colleagues and my extended family, all long time California taxpayers have been rejected from these schools at great numbers. This is unfair.

No corporation should be allowed to make laws as they would be biased for their present or former companies .

Please urge Palm Springs City Council to stop the Mega-Tower project at Vista Del Monte School in Palm Springs.

I am a member of Military Families Speak Out. Our goal has to bring our family members home & the have them taken care of once they get home. The war in Afghanistan has been going on longer than any other in American history & our troops have been continually recycled through the war zones on repeated deployments. It is time for Pres. Obama to keep his PROMISE to bring these honorable Americans home NOW.

Because of their overwhelming wish to bring this President down, they have lied to their constituency and helped to keep thousands from getting medicaid expansion and/or insurance while they, of course, personally have the best. These are not "leaders" in any sense of the word.

I am starting this petition because the conduct that TKJ presents himself with is unbearable. I believe that The GM™ Should not have to go through the pain that we deal with day in, day out. While signing this petition you provide the approval for TKJ to get an immediate boot.

If the propery is rezoned it will 1. Is not compatible with our community of mostly owner-occupied, single family residential; 2. Deteriorates our quality of life within Walden Lake of open space, lakes, scenic views and vistas; 3. Destroys the property values, current scenic views of 168 single family residential homes; 4. Increases significantly, traffic and congestion onto Timberlane Drive, Griffin Boulevard and Clubhouse Drive; 5. Destroys the quality of life, scenic views, vistas and property values of more than 200 homes on the back nine of the currently abandoned, overgrown and unkept Hills golf course; 6. Substantially reduces the pervious, open space surfaces to developed impervious surfaces, increasing storm water runoff and drainage; and 7. Utilizes our green, pristine, premier community and rights-of-way that we have funded and maintained for more than 30 years for their development efforts — with no guaranteed return on our investments. 8. Will displace the habitats of numerous Florida wildlife

I live in Greeley Colorado. We had an earthquake last night (5/31/2014). I don't want to end up like the Oklahoma City area with a cluster of these quakes because the oil and gas companies are too lazy to clean up their polluted water and just inject it into deep wells.

Call on Apple Inc. to cancel the purchase of Beats Music and Beats Electronics. If they do not, all moral people should consider boycotting Apple. A major owner and co-founder of Beats Music and Beats Electronics, Andre Romelle Young (a.k.a. "Dr Dre") has allegedly practiced and promoted violence, particularly against woman. Two or more women have accused Andre Young of severely beating them. "Dr Dre's" former girlfriend, Michel'le Toussant (a.k.a. Michel'le) said that "Dr Dre" broke her nose, and repeatedly blackened her eyes. Speaking of "Dr Dre", Michel'le said "I did five videos and we had to cover three black eyes. It seemed like the day before a video, I would get a black eye and we had to cover it." "Dr Dre" is the father of Michel'le's son, Marcel. Denise "Dee" Barnes, is a performer whose stage name was "D Zire". According to Rolling Stone reporter Alan Light, on January 27, 1991, "Dr Dre" encountered Barnes at a record release party in Hollywood, and "He ["Dr Dre"] picked her up by her hair and began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun. After Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women's rest room. Dre followed her and grabbed her from behind by the hair again and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head." Another major owner and co-founder of Beats is Jimmy Iovine. Jimmy Iovine and “Dr Dre” have each produced many rap artists whose lyrics are violent. Here are parts of just one song from “Dr Dre”: “Who is the man with the masterplan? A Nigga Witta motherf*cking Gun! See I never take a step on a Compton block or LA without the AK ready to pop. And for a youth to survive a nigga gotta be a gangster. And I'm a nigga you can't remove. Took out a lot of motherf*uckers for tryin' to prove to their homies they can hang by dealin' with me. But once again in the end they D-E-A-D. I never did time on a murder yet. If you see me on the solo moves believe that I'm strapped .44, .38 or AK 47. You want a stairway to heaven? Just put my finger on the trigger and pull back and lay a punk motherfucker flat.” Is this what Apple wants to support? Is this what Apple wants to promote? By paying these men approximately $3 billion? If this is what Apple wants, please do not support Apple in any way. Call on Apple to cancel the purchase of Beats Music and Beats Electronics.

A Facebook friend of mine used Sergeants Bansect on her kitty and it put her in seizures!! We need to Stop this company for EVER killing any more of our precious pets. Please help us Save our animals, because we do not know Who to Trust!

We have all been affected by this increased violence. It would help the state with the extra expense of protecting our citizens and schools during these violent attacks. Considering the success of the extra tax on tobacco and alcohol the state and citizens should benefit from this tax. We need it now!