Everyone deserves a fair trial and everyone victim deserves justice.

This is a public safety issue. We need to be able to feel safe in our own community and not fear our police officers.

Lets protect Olathe's nature! Every day, as I drive to work, I notice less and less trees left. I see a new development growing up on the same place where there used to be trees. With every natural habitat that disappears, we destroy not only trees, but animals, insects and reptiles. We should stop destroying nature just for the convenience of a new housing development or strip mall. This petition is against destroying Olathe forest.

Helena has been a dedicated, supportive coach for the past three years, always looking out for the best of the team, treating us like a family. Although recruiting is important for the progression of the team, the overall happiness and spirit of the team is a crucial part, which she has proved to be her number one goal. Her dedication is what keeps our team going; her job as head coach needs to be reinstated.

$21.9 billion. That’s Wells Fargo’s profit for 2013. It’s their most ever. [1] And it’s coming off the backs of foreclosure victims and underwater homeowners like me. My name is Yolanda Andrews, and Wells Fargo bankers are trying to steal my home. That’s why I went to San Antonio, Texas on April 29th to directly confront Wells CEO John Stumpf and ask him to work with me to keep me in my home. I brought with me 6,000 signatures of people like you telling him to do the right thing. Then last week, on May 5th, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder uttered words I’ve been waiting for him to say since Wall Street bankers destroyed our economy, foreclosed on 5 million families and kept 20% of homeowners underwater: “No bank is too big to jail.” [2] [3] Losing your home hurts the same whether you are African American, Latino, Asian or white. But Wells Fargo has been investigated and paid multi-million dollar settlements for racial discrimination in lending and how it deals with foreclosed homes. Here’s why Wells Fargo and its CEO John Stumpf should be the poster children for proving there is no such thing as “Too Big to Jail”: Just two years ago it settled lawsuits by Memphis, TN and Baltimore, MD for a combined total of $607 million. [4] In 2013, the New York Attorney General sued Wells Fargo for systematically violating key servicing standards national $25 billion foreclosure settlement regarding loan modification practices. [5] Also in 2013, Wells Fargo settled a fair housing complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $39 million because it “maintained and marketed foreclosed properties in White areas are much better… than such properties … in African-American and Latino Neighborhoods.” [6] Two months ago, news reports show that in 2011 and 2012 Wells Fargo published an internal manual showing how to forge proof of ownership documents in foreclosure files. [7] And just last month, a report from the University of Minnesota shows that Wells Fargo systematically denied credit and refinancing of sub-prime mortgages to communities of color in the Twin Cities. [8] I’ve been fighting for an affordable loan modification from Wells Fargo for 5 years now – Wells Fargo’s last offer was for a $49 reduction – and it has impacted my health to the point where I can no longer get steady work. Earlier this year, they filed for foreclosure on my house. I’ve been on the receiving end of every kind of abuse Wells Fargo has admitted to and pledged to stop. We need to ensure that they live up to their word. Stand with me and demand Eric Holder live up to his own words and start prosecuting Wells Fargo. [1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/wells-fargo-4th-quarter-profit-rose-10-slightly-ahead-of-estimates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 [2] http://diversity.berkeley.edu/underwater-america-report [3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/no-company-is-too-big-to-jail-holder-says-of-justice-dept-probes/2014/05/05/e133e49c-d45f-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html [4] http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/30/news/companies/wells-fargo-memphis/ and http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages [5] http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/NMS%20MOL.pdf [6] http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/News%20Release%20for%20NFHA%20Wells%20Fargo%20Complaint%20120410%20Pdf.pdf [7] http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/ [8] http://www.law.umn.edu/metro/index.html

The purpose of the petition is to emphasize the importance of fatherhood in the building of strong communities. The impact fathers make in the lives of their children cannot be emphasized enough! Statistics show that children raised in a father-absent home are: 1) Four Times More Likely to Live in Poverty 2) More Likely to Suffer Emotional and Behavioral Problems 3) Two Times Greater Risk of Infant Mortality 4) More Likely to go to Prison 5) More Likely to Commit Crime 6) Seven Times More Likely to Become Pregnant as a Teen 7) More Likely to Face Abuse and Neglect 8) More Likely to Abuse Drugs and Alcohol 9) Two Times More Likely to Suffer Obesity 10) Two Times More Likely to Drop Out of High School Therefore, the Men's Empowering Resource Center, Inc. (www.mercinc.org) and the people of North Carolina strongly urge you to stress the importance of fatherhood by declaring the month of June as Fatherhood Awareness Month!

We enjoy the openness of our harbor. Please do not build a fishing pier off Stacy Boulevard. It is our opinion that this is not a sensible place to have a fishing pier -- as climate change and storm surges would make it a very risky spot. Many of us feel that a pier in this location would be a stain on the beauty of the outer harbor, the location of schooner races, many paintings and photographs by talented artists and photos from our own visitors who cherish Gloucester for what it is now: historic and not "built up" in the name of "progress." Noise on the boulevard is sometimes a problem late at night in the summertime. A pier would bring in more people who will be up all night fishing. Also, parking and the added traffic congestion during busy summer months when both vehicles and vessels are competing for bridge access would be made much worse in that location. Please don't ruin what has been a peaceful retreat for residents and an attraction to tourists for hundreds of years. Please vote no on this proposal.

The future of Dallas ISD hangs in the balance with Support Our Public Schools' (SOPS) effort to change DISD into a Home Rule school district, a step that has never been attempted in a Texas school district. As the elected leaders of DISD, we call on you to verify that all signatures submitted on Home Rule petitions represent current registered voters in the school district, as required by state law. Our parents, students, teachers, and taxpayers all deserve this verification before the Home Rule effort advances any further. It is your obligation to ensure that this process is carried out transparently and completely. Our community is counting on you!

We, as the Student Body of River City Science Academy are concerned about our fellow teacher and mentor, Gabriel Quant. Through talk of the Student Body, we have come to a conclusion. We have been taught throughout numerous years at River City Science Academy that "perfect numbers like perfect men, are very rare." The quality of a man is nothing compared to the quality of his education. Señor Quant, as he is called, presents each and every one of his students with top-notch quality education. Whether they be essays, projects, field trips, or casual talk, everything is always tied back to Spanish. Spanish is the #2 language in the world in terms of popularity. Señor Quant has taught his students at RCSA everything he knows about Spanish; the language, the culture, the food, the jokes, the fables, and even the very basics of its ancestors. Without Señor Quant, the whole institution is taking a large-scale risk of losing one of the most fluent native Spanish-speaking teachers there is. On a regular basis, the students are presented with a "Calentamiento" ('Warm-Up' in Spanish) and a daily lesson. Any other teacher in his spot is basically a comparison to Mr. Quant. There is nobody that teaches like Mr. Quant does. His teaching goes beyond quality, his education introduces meaning, something that high school students have trouble finding in any subject. So, as a friendly, fair compromise, we, the Student Body of River City Science Academy refuse to participate in any other Spanish Elective offered. We will not conduct any violent acts, destroy or damage any school property, or alter the image of any school-backed items. All that we ask is if Señor Quant can come back next year.

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions opened the floodgates of unlimited campaign spending by the 1%, which threatens our democracy. And the Court will keep ruling this way, as long as we subscribe to the absurd notion that money is “speech.” However, Senator Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) has sponsored a constitutional amendment to give Congress the power to pass campaign contribution limits and spending limits. A vote is expected in the coming months. Sign the petition to the U.S. Senate: Support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and McCutcheon.

My name is Josh Christmon and I am a Purple Heart recipient and U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq. You can see my story here : www.stp-sf.org/bad-paper Vets like myself are coming home with PTSD and physical injuries and are in need of medical care and disability benefits. But the military’s practice of considering symptoms of PTSD and TBI to be misconduct, instead of symptoms of medical conditions that require treatment, are stripping vets of the benefits they have earned. In my case, when I returned home from Iraq, I smoked marijuana once as a way to escape my PTSD. Instead of getting medical treatment for my conditions, I was given an Other than Honorable discharge. This left me unemployed, without benefits, and without needed medical care for the injuries sustained during my time in Iraq.

The medical field is making and keeping the nation sick. The public needs to be informed about what's behind all this sickness.