To portray the importance and impact a restaurant of this kind will serve the community.

It’s time for the United States to seriously rethink our penal system. We have the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. We put more of our citizens in jail per capita than North Korea. We’re worse than China and Iran. Does that compute? It should be disturbing to us that we throw so many non-violent offenders in jail. Let the sad, ironic cautionary tale of McGruff the Crime Dog be a lesson to us. Read more at http://lastresistance.com/4672/sad-story-mcgruff-crime-dog/#CezOToHk1EAYVGEJ.99

This petition is to illustrate the negligence of the city officials to keep their residents in a clean and safe environment. Unsafe roads create hazards among one another to be able to get to work and pay the outrageous property taxes. Put the dollars to work!

Last year, in the midst of a budget crunch, Illinois could have generated $108.3 million if we modernized our state’s tax code by closing offshore tax haven loopholes with a simple reform similar to recent laws enacted in Oregon and Montana. This would eliminate incentives for moving businesses offshore, level the playing field for Illinois businesses that compete with multinational corporations, and protect regular taxpayers who are picking up the tab for tax dodgers. The $108.3 million saved would be enough to cover the salaries for 3,000 Illinois teachers, or could be used to eliminate hunting and fishing license fees and cut amusement licenses by over 90 percent without any loss of revenue. Rather than waiting for Congress to close offshore tax havens, Illinois can follow the lead of other states and save millions of dollars to help alleviate our budget crisis without raising taxes or cutting spending to important public programs.

I sign lots of petitions and post pics on Facebook because I'm passionate about political issues and I believe the Tea Party Republicans are pulling this county apart. You're betting I won't vote and all I'll do is complain on Facebook. I just wanted to let you know I will vote on election day. Because I know signing isn't the same as voting.

We are sixth graders writing from our personal experiences last year. We are aghast that an issue we thought was resolved in the nineteen hundreds is still a problem today, into the twenty first century. The pacer test is a standardized test to confirm the physical ability of children in terms of running endurance. It is not fair that boys should have to live up to the expectations of being vastly more physically fit than girls, and girls should not have to be put down by the idea that they are not able to be equal to boys.

I do not want Rick Snyder to be re-elected.

The start of this petition is to reinstate the Radford University Men's indoor track & field, Men's outdoor track & field, Women's swimming & diving, and Women's Field Hockey teams.

In a recent Texas case, 16-year-old Ethan Couch avoided jail time for a drunk-driving crash that killed four people and seriously injured two others by claiming the "affluenza" defense--that because he was raised in a wealthy family, he wasn't responsible for his actions. Allowing wealth to buy freedom from legal consequences is outrageous! Luckily, we have a chance to put a stop to this "affluenza" defense in California, once and for all. Assemblymember Mike Gatto (CA AD 43) has stepped up and introduced a bill, AB 1508, that would prevent anyone from using this defense in our state. Now we need to make sure that every Assemblymember throughout the state supports AB 1508, to guarantee a fair legal system for everyone. Sign the petition to ask your Assemblymember to support AB 1508.

This petition is meant to stop the onslaught of winter weather and to BRING on SPRING!!

In addition, Amanda Conner’s interpretation of Power Girl represents a demographic much needed in an industry that gets a bad rap as simply a “boys’ club”. Power Girl is in a class of her own as a female character with her own title and with a female artist having top billing. If you look at the Absolute Editions currently out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics_Absolute_Edition), only three series have women as the title character: Danger Girl, Death, & Promethea. Not even Wonder Woman, one of DC’s “Big Three” superheroes, has an Absolute edition. How depressing is that? You can search for the “needles” of female creators in the “hay stack” of male dominated credits, but I already did that for you. Of all the Absolute Editions the highest billed female creator is Lynn Varley, who is the colorist for Absolute Dark Knight and Absolute Ronin. Another colorist, Laura Martin, comes in close second working on Absolute Planetary vol. 1& 2. With top billing usually going to the writer and artist, you will sadly find title page credits lacking female creators. Jill Thompson provided art for Neil Gaiman’s Sandman “The Parliament of Rooks” & “Brief Lives”, collected in Absolute Sandman vol. 2 & 3, yet her name is buried in a list with other artists. Absolute Death, another Neil Gaiman book, features art by Caitlin R. Kiernan, and much like Thompson, Kiernan is only listed as one of many artists. Rebecca Buchman, inker on a portion of Bruce Wayne: The Road Home is also barely visible in a list of creators in Absolute Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn.) In terms of female editors, there are none who hold top billing by themselves in your Absolute Editions: Kristy Quinn shares co-editing credit with Scott Dunbier in Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2, Karen Berger co-edited with Schott Nybakken on Absolute V for Vendetta, and Barbara Kesel shares an editing credit with Len Wein for Absolute Watchmen. The Absolute Editions are supposed to be the cream of the crop in terms of DC comics and they are sorely missing female title characters and creators. You would think by the current lineup that there are no female creators or characters that have a fanbase. An Absolute Edition of Amanda Conner’s Power Girl would send a message: that Amanda Conner is a top notch creator and artist, that there are female creators in the industry, and that leading publishers take them seriously and are interested in their talents and fandom. Power Girl can lead the way with introducing more readers to not only a strong female character, but a strong female artist and creator. But don’t do simply as an appeasement to female creators and fans. Do it because Power Girl is the cream of the DC comics crop and because many fans like me want an Absolute Edition Power Girl on coffee tables.

Univisión y Estrella TV dicen ser televisoras que buscan entretener a las familias hispanas, en su gran parte Mexicanas. Además dicen estar comprometidas con el bienestar comunitario y para muestra lanzan sinfín de campañas para mejorar el estilo de vida de las familias de habla hispana en los Estados Unidos. Este mes ambas televisoras incluyeron en su programación a la hija de uno de los criminales mas buscados en México, no conforme con darle promoción a su insulsa carrera de cantante, le dieron la oportunidad de hablar en una entrevista y hacerse ver como una victima de la violencia generada por su padre y la organización que lidera. Las familias de habla hispana en los Estados Unidos estamos cansadas de la glorificación de la violencia y el nepotismo a los criminales porque amasan cantidades de dinero deslumbran televisoras y medios de comunicación en ambos lados de la frontera. ¡alto a la glorificación de los criminales!