Due to recent crime, continuing criminal activity, current road infrastructure's inability to handle additional residential traffic, inability of all three already overcrowded McAdory schools to handle the extra influx of students, concern for our children and our property values in the McCalla area, we, the citizens of McCalla are opposed to any apartment complex being built in our immediate zoning area.

According to Social Media Today over 5 million Facebook users are under the age of ten. We are looking to protect minors using social media platforms who are easily influenced by advertisers and not cognitively developed yet. Social media publicity can be dangerous for children by sharing information and photos without the child realizing the implications. Many parents are unaware of their child's online activities that could put them in potential danger. We want to change the environment so that it is safer for our children.

Fukushima threatens the Earth's biosphere. Our survival may hinge on the global media being guaranteed unlimited site access so humankind can be immediately informed of, and respond to, all vital developments there.

Dear Members of US Congress, We the people of the United States, in order to make the courts more fair and to establish judicial accountability ask you to Pass H.R. 2902, the Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2013. The time has come to stop bias and partisanship in the US Supreme Court. It is a great privilege to be a Justice of the US Supreme Court. That role comes with tremendous responsibility to be fair, unbiased and not driven by a special interest -- either religious or political. Supreme Court justices must adhere to the highest ethical standards and conduct. Such a standard enforces public confidence in the highest court's fairness, and it demonstrates the absence of any bias or prejudice. If justices of the Supreme Court cannot hold themselves to such standards, how can they require other justices and judges of the lower courts to adhere to them? Recently, several justices of the Supreme Court exhibited flagrant disregard for conflict of interest, legal ethics and standards of conduct they should not tolerate from lower court judges. The time has come to profess that all judges are created equal and have to be subject to the same Code of Conduct and Rules of Ethics. The US Judiciary is as any other branch of the government, accountable to the Citizens of the United States of America and not to any personal, religious or political beliefs. It is time for US Congress to accept this self-evident truth and make it a law. We need to stop abuse of the Code of Conduct by the Justices of the Supreme Court and require them not to represent the interest of the richest 1 percent or 5 percent of the population or corporations, but of all citizens of this great country. We the People demand from the members of the US Congress to pass this Bill that currently has only 11% chance of getting past committee and 2% chance of being enacted - (see https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2902). We, who signed this petition, will not rest until the Congress will enact this important legislation into the law.

A single plastic bag will take thousands of years to degrade. Yet Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Markets use so many plastic bags a year it’s unbelievable. Many people don't even realize how harmful plastic bags are to our environment. The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile. If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion. Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.

A single plastic bag will take thousands of years to degrade. Yet Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Markets use so many plastic bags a year it’s unbelievable. Many people don't even realize how harmful plastic bags are to our environment. The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile. If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion. Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.

Where is Speaker Boehner? For three weeks, a group of activists have been praying and going without food in plain view of the Capitol building in order to call attention to the House's inaction on immigration reform. Surviving only on water, the fasters--led by SEIU, immigrant rights and labor leader Eliseo Medina--have already received personal visits from President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Jeff Denham and Rep. David Valadao. During these three weeks, as the fasters get weaker and weaker, the leader of the House -- Speaker John Boehner -- is nowhere to be seen. Every day that Speaker Boehner refuses to allow a vote on immigration reform means another 1,100 aspiring Americans will be ripped apart from their families and communities. Speaker Boehner should visit the fasters and commit to a vote on immigration reform. These longterm fasters and thousands of other solidarity fasters across the U.S. are taking desperate measures in order to stand up for the 11 million aspiring Americans the House has neglected. These fasters deserve a personal visit from Speaker Boehner and a pledge from him to act on reform.

The brooks, creeks and rivers in the George Washington National Forest comprise the watershed for a large portion of the east coast. In addition our agriculture and drinking water in the immediate area of the proposed fracking will be effected by this environmentally unsafe practice.

One Septmeber 29th 2013 Alexian Lien, while driving his vehicle, ran over Edwin "Jay" Mieses, who was riding his motorcycle, which caused Edwin to be permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Alexian Lien has yet to be charged for this crime. Charges need to be filed against Alexian Lien for his actions. We demand and seek justice!!

There are currently more wild horses in captivity than in the wild. Over 80% of Western rangeland is leased to cattle and sheep ranchers, leaving only a small portion designated for wild horses and burros, in clear violation of the Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act. Congress should reinstitute the Act and stop the BLM roundups.

The ever increasing number of local earthquakes is the direct results of local fracking activities and can be felt in the homes of North Texas residents living in the Azle and Reno areas near Eagle Mountain Lake. Now that the negative results of fracking can be felt by both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, it is time to unite at stop these activities before they cause serious damage to our homes or personal injury or even death.

A young 13 year old dancer, Landry Thompson, came to Houston from Oklahoma. She travelled with her two dance instructors over the weekend. The intent of their visit was to train all weekend with some of the best in dance industry. When they left the studio Saturday night they stopped at a gas station very exhausted as they searched for their lodging. They were trying to locate their hotel on the GPS. Out of nowhere they were surrounded by the Houston police. The Houston police dragged them out of the car and handcuffed them all. “I was kind of freaked out and surprised by it,” said Landry Thompson. “They just pulled us out of the car. Put our hands behind out backs like we were criminals,” said Landry’s dance instructor Emmanuel Hurd. “He asked me; who is the girl? She is my student. I said I have a notarized letter from her parents stating that I have full guardianship over her while we are here.” Landry Thompson and the instructors said they pleaded with the police and told the police their story repeatedly. It did not matter to the Houston police. Landry Thompson said, “They still put handcuffs on me. And it really scared me. And they put me in the back of the cop car. I was terrified.” Landry Thompson was taken to Protective Services. “I was horrified. She was with the people I wanted her to be with. She was with people who were safe who I knew would take care of her,” said Her mother, Destiny Thompson. “Yet they had taken her away from those people and now she was in a shelter, wherever she was with people I didn’t know.” Protective Services told Destiny Thompson that she would have to fly to Houston to get her daughter. After many phone calls with various officials, Landry Thompson was released back into the custody of her dance instructors. “I would love an apology,” said Landry Thompson’s mother. “They owe her an apology.” Soon after, the trio was back at the dance studio. They intend to leave Houston on Monday afternoon. The Houston police (HPD) has not been responding to inquiries as to what happened. ** Complaints against the HPD can be filed by the instructions here: http://www.houstontx.gov/police/contact/iad.htm (sources: http://www.khou.com/news/local/oklahoma-dancer-houston-police-cps-234062201.html and http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/02/1259558/-Young-white-dancer-with-her-two-black-instructors-handcuffed-by-Houston-Police-Racism)