------------------------------------------UPDATE------------------------------------------------ Great News! The Iowa GOP just confirmed that Steve King will not be at the GOP Lincoln Dinner this year! However, Paul Ryan will still be speaking at the event in Cedar Rapids. So, we are holding a rally to demand a vote from Paul Ryan and House Republicans on immigration reform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On national TV, Rep. Paul Ryan says he supports immigration reform, but here in Iowa he's headlining a fundraiser featuring Rep. Steve King on April 11th. Steve King has done more to hurt the immigrant community than any other member of Congress. He has compared immigrants to dogs and accused DREAMers of being drug mules. In fact, just this week he told DREAMers wanting to join the military that he has a deportation bus to Tijuana waiting for them. He even said giving citizenship to undocumented veterans is like handing out candy in a parade! This is the man Paul Ryan is campaigning with in Iowa! If Rep. Paul Ryan really cared about immigrants and immigration reform, he'd speak out against Steve King's ugly rhetoric. For King, this is another chance for possible 2016 presidential candidates to kiss his ring - and get a photo. Ryan is legitimizing King's anti-immigrant agenda. This is the kind of photo op that may help with King's crowd but it will be a long-term problem for Ryan's political future.

Third party utility suppliers send notification of contract expirations that look like junk mail. If you don't respond, they are then authorized to raise your rates (mine increased 82%). Getting your rate back to a contracted rate, takes months. This is unfair business practice.

Millions of landmines are left behind as reminders of conflict in war-torn places like Colombia. We need to conclude the policy review to ban antipersonnel land mines. I was born and raised in Colombia, a beautiful country that has the dishonorable 2nd place for land mine incidents.

Until research is complete and the safety of our students is ensured the school board should make it their number one priority to protect our children. The potential loss of enrollment and funding will greatly affect the longevity of our local school and is of great concern.

Since San Francisco voters and city officials handed authority for managing our streets, traffic, parking, Muni, and taxis to the SFMTA, all those systems have deteriorated. SFMTA spends more money and delivers less service per capita than any comparable transit system in the country. Claims of fraudulent accounting practices, handshake deals, and preferential treatment, are running rampant. Muni drivers have a class action suit pending and there are a number of CEQA appeals winding their way through the courts. Reduced parking and restricted traffic lanes have created daily gridlock. San Francisco is now rated the third worst in the country for parking. The congestion parking schemes do not work as promised and the MTA has no real plan to deal with the increase in traffic that new development will inevitably bring. We have lost faith in the SFMTA and are fed up with promises of future visions of grandeur. Muni delivers less than 98.5% of scheduled service and has never met 85% of on time performance. Everyone complains about lack of notice, public outreach and citizen involvement in developing and approving citywide transit projects. Plans to revise Muni lines, along with threats to raise rates, fees and fines, have turned many Muni riders against the SFMTA and customer satisfaction is at an all time low. Residents are unlikely to support any new fares, fines, fees, bonds, or other funding measures to dig the SFMTA out of its financial hole. The SFMTA has lost the trust of residents and we believe the only way out of this mess is to pass a Charter Amendment to fix the MTA. Please sign the petition, leave your comments, join us or work with neighborhood groups to help us fix the MTA. Thank you for your support. Use the comments to let city officials know how you feel about the MTA when you sign the petition. Emails are required to avoid double signatures, but they are blind.

We're Concerned Parents of Fiske 5th Graders (for 2014/15) - Meredith Ripley - Tama Leventhal

The children in the town currently have no local playground and the playground at Cape May Elementary School is sat waiting to be used! Local residents to Cape May, New Jersey please show your support by signing below this petition to activate Cape May Board of Education into doing the right thing and getting it open before the good weather is here and our children want to let off some energy and have fun nearby. BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2014 AT 6PM (ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY). PLEASE JOING US TO SHARE YOUR OPINION AND HELP US TO CONVINCE BOARD OF EDUCATION THAT THIS PLAYGROUND IS SO MUCH NEEDED FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS

Far to often police officers are caught on video abusing or killing citizens illegally but nothing happens to them. They will get off, be suspended or in rare cases fired only to get hired at another police station with a clean record. Dr.,Nurses and Aids lose their licence to practice health care if they abuse or kill patients. This should be the same for police if your not going to prosecute them at least forbid them from ever policing society. they make all cops look bad. It's time to clean out the trash so good cops can shine once again, before we lose all respect for authority.

My fiance has a severely compressed nerve in her arm that is killing her hand. She is loosing muscle , hand is always cold and mottled, she is in severe pain every single day. This is a police officer that is being treated like garbage. When a citizen needed help , my finance was always there to help, now my finance needs help to save her arm and in 4 years she has asked for help and our CA workcomp system refuses to approve her surgeries. Please help me save her arm!!!!!!!

According to U.S. Bureau of the Census, there are 11,459 households within Cheboygan County, Michigan. If each uses 9 plastic shopping bags per week, a total of 5.3 million plastic bags are distributed within Cheboygan County, Michigan, each year. According to the EPA, fewer than 5% of the plastic bags used in the U.S. are recycled. so 5.0 million of the plastic bags that are distributed within Cheboygan County are sent to landfills. According to www.worldwatch.org/node/5565, plastic bags take thousands of years to decompose. According to the Great Lakes Alliance on Adopt-A-Beach, plastic bags make up 13% of the trash on the beaches within Cheboygan County, Michigan. Animals, including turtles, fish, and birds, are killed when they ingest plastic bags.

I have been personally affected by the current child support system in a negative manner. The current law is outdated, unfair, and in many instances, unconstitutional. Reform is needed so that the modern family and our diverse situations can be correctly addressed. This will ensure that proper guidelines are being mandated and followed. No child deserves to be subjected to witnessing their parent fall victim to the child support system.

We, as Denver Park Participants, join together in requesting a dismissal of the proposed pilot project of banning legal consumption of alcohol in Denver parks, beginning with Wash Park. We contend that there has been gross negligence of investigation, as well as an exaggeration, on the the accusations that alcohol is the root cause and driver of the following behaviors: unruly citizens, lewd behavior, public intoxication, public indecency, public defecation, parking violations, etc. Under current regulations and laws, these behaviors can and should be ticketed. The lack of current enforcement due to an underestimation of the popularity and use of public parks does not warrant additional regulation. We agree the safety and enjoyment of our fellow park participants is the priority and charter of the parks system. We support legitimate and sound recommendations to park improvements, and look forward to working with our local governing body to make public and informed decisions that will impact all Denver Park Participants.