Without an RPS, Florida's Energy Policies will be controlled by the Utility Companies who favor nuclear energy and fossil fuels to meet future energy needs. Florida citizens can regain control of a clean energy future with more jobs, a cleaner environment, and regain a leadership position in utilization of Florida's #1 energy resource Solar, and deserve the title of the Sunshine State. Florida needs your support.

Congress needs to act immediately, or I, along with many countless others, will be forced into foreclosure or never be able to sell our homes! Not only that, but once every town near water loses so much of its tax base, schools and hospitals across the country will lose their funding as well. This act must be repealed because it will destroy our country from the inside out. Here is the act that we must act against. http://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance-reform-act-2012 Here is a link to show you where your house sits on the new flood map if you live in Lycoming County. http://lycomap.lyco.org/cslf/

The vast majority of educators enter their career in a quest to educate our young and impressionable youth. They have dreams of making a difference. Teachers ensure that their dreams come to fruition, by planning engaging, differentiated and rigorous lessons. In addition to teachers spending countless hours planning, they spend even more time cultivating rapport with the parents and students that they serve. Teachers do the aforementioned, day after day, even though they continue to be underpaid and under-appreciated. In addition to teachers being underpaid, post obtaining a master’s degree (so that they are deemed highly qualified in their content areas), they are often left with expensive student loans, with high interest rates. Unfortunately, this usually means that teachers are working to pay back their student loans, because often times they have very little money to pay their monthly bills, let alone money to travel or partake in leisure. Moreover, many teachers work part time jobs, just to make ends meet. Currently, there are loan forgiveness plans that forgive $17,000 worth of debt, for teachers who have worked 5 consecutive years in schools that serve students who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This is problematic, because educating youth, is educating youth. Furthermore, all stakeholders, in the arena of education, know that the scholar who lives in an affluent school district requires just as much teacher preparation, as the scholar that resides in a non-affluent zip code. For this reason, I am asking policy makers to reevaluate their EXTREMELY limiting loan forgiveness programs that are available for teachers, by extending loan forgiveness to ALL teachers. I am also asking that policy makers consider reducing or eliminating interest, for teachers.

30,000 people are killed by gun violence each year in this country. There have been 28 school shootings in the one year since Newtown. Through divestment, Pennsylvania can send a clear message to the gun industry that we no longer accept gun violence as "business as usual."

California’s non-profit hospitals can be very profitable for hospital system executives, who make as much as $4.8 million per year.* Outrageous executive salaries contribute to the rising cost of healthcare, which leaves many Californians unable to access medical treatment, or buried under a mountain of medical debt. It’s unreasonable and unnecessary for a non-profit hospital executive to be paid more than the President of the United States--$450,000 per year. Ask California’s health care regulators to bring non-profit hospitals’ executive compensation in line with their charitable mission: no more than $450,000 in compensation per year. We will deliver your signature directly to California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, and California Health & Human Services Secretary Diana S. Dooley. *Lloyd Dean made $4,882,756 million from July, 2011 to June, 2012 as CEO of Dignity Health.

Can you imagine going to your local pharmacy and paying $21 for a single aspirin tablet, $18 for two Alka-Seltzer, or $35 for a tube of hydrocortisone cream?* Hospitals in California charge prices like these every day--overcharging by 500% or more above their actual costs. On top of that, nonprofit hospital system CEOs are making up to $4.8 million a year!** Rising healthcare costs are keeping many Californians from getting the care they need, and leaving others under a growing mountain of healthcare debt. Meanwhile, the hospital industry in California made more than $4 billion in profits in 2012. We can’t afford it. California’s healthcare providers must bring costs down to reasonable, affordable rates. Ask California’s health care regulators to keep hospitals to a reasonable rate of no more than 25% above the true cost of medical care (including material, facility, and labor costs), with allowances made to offset costs of charity care. We will deliver your signature directly to California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, and California Health & Human Services Secretary Diana S. Dooley. *Prime Centinela Medical Center, Inglewood; Sutter Memorial Hospital, Sacramento; Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles **Lloyd Dean made $4,882,756 million from July, 2011 to June, 2012 as CEO of Dignity Health.

In 1987, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and started to work for IBM. In that time I have seen the divide between the digital haves and have nots grow wider and wider. Much of this division is a result of government policies for the benefit of large corporations. Over the last twenty years, the Fortune 500 has been responsible for a net loss in jobs. And according to Peter Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School, the overall success rate of innovation initiatives in American business is around 4%. Up to now, instead of ensuring that everyone in America can compete in a global economy, instead of narrowing the divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting competitive free markets for American inventions that use information—instead, that is, of ensuring that America will lead the world in the information age—U.S. politicians have chosen to keep AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and its fellow giants happy. Let's begin to change the status quo, free up the unlicensed spectrum and get Americans working again.

The April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer Company storage facility in West, Texas, which killed 15 people and leveled dozens of homes, was a tragic reminder of the real dangers toxic chemicals pose to Texas communities.

This is started because it is a cause I believe in and this is a school assignment!

OUR TROOPS DESERVE BETTER, THEY WORK TIRELESSLY TO DEFEND OUR NATION. IF ANYONE'S PENSIONS SHOULD BE SLASHED IT SHOULD BE THE ELECTED OFFICIALS.

My husband is incarcerated at a Mississippi Correctional Facility, which will lose conjugal visits after February 1, 2014. This is one of the few things couples have to look forward to while their spouse is incarcerated. This is a privilege that should not be taken away from people who are married or people who plan to get married while incarcerated. Conjugal visits should be kept in the prison systems for the sake of marriages and families. Update!!!! Please pass this information on to family and friends. Hi everyone, I have been contacted by some of you through email with concerns about the petition and the possible outcome in our fight against the end of conjugal visits here in the Mississippi prison system. Well I was contacted by Mrs. Muscolino, who stated in an email that we need to grow in number, this is very true. Mrs. Muscolino is the Director of Mississippi Advocates for Prisoners. Today she sent out an email which stated that if petition signers can sign up with us we will be a force to reckon with and we can make a greater impact at each of the scheduled events. To sign up text: @missadv to the number 662-736-1826. I have also included information on how to contact the directors of MAP (Mississippi Advocates for Prisoners). If you have not already joined M.A.P, we encourage you to please do so. There is a text alert system that has been put in place so that everyone can be easily contacted, all members will be contacted at one time to be updated with what is going on, I have also included the email addresses to people who have developed groups to help us. Mrs. Muscolino (601)633-9346 [email protected] [email protected]

I have started this petition in order to help fight back against the gun lobby in the US. Gun sellers and manufactures are profiting from the mass slaughter of innocent US citizens on a daily basis. The state of Illinois has no business supporting this industry with taxpayer money.