Living in Sigma/West has its benefits, an own bathroom, a bigger room and space. But when it comes to dorm meetings and birthdays of friends we face the drawbacks. No lounge to meet in, no kitchen to bake the cake in. We too have the right for a "place to hang out" in!

I have a batting cage in my backyard where my three boys (ages 6, 7 and 10) play baseball. Now the City of Irvine is considering a proposal to outlaw backyard batting cages. Please help us tell the Irvine City Council that our kids should be allowed to play baseball in a batting cage in their backyard and sign our petition. I put the batting cage in our backyard after contacting my city planning department at City Hall in Irvine, California. I was told that there were no regulations regarding batting cages and no permit was necessary. I intentionally moved my family into this area because it is one of only three areas in Irvine that does not have a Home Owner's Association. The Municipal and Zoning code for our area also allows Accessory Building Structures that are larger than our batting cage's dimensions. Although the City of Irvine has several batting cages, none of them are open to the public. Irvine Citizens must pay money to join an organization like Little League in order to use them. Please tell the Irvine City Council that our kids should be allowed to play baseball in a batting cage in their backyard and sign our petition.

As concerned citizens of and visitors to San Juan Island and Friday Harbor, we believe that placing the new Customs and Border Patrol offices with additional space and facilities required under the Dept. of Homeland Security in the downtown core would be a serious mistake. While we recognize the role of CBP in the continued safety of our island and country , we believe the corner of First and Spring St., the heart of Friday Harbor's downtown, is an inappropriate location for a government security facility. We are disappointed by the lack of transparency and public input into a decision which will affect the way our tax dollars are spent and alter the face of this small community through the coming decade. We want this move halted until a satisfactory impact study is provided and the public is engaged in the decision making process. This petition is intended to create additional support for this cause when presenting the issue at the upcoming community forum Mon. Nov. 25 , 2013 in Friday Harbor Wa. It is meant to encourage the online support of those who cannot attend and all who are in favor of taking these concerns to a higher level and being heard.

As a citizen and resident of Florida, I am appalled that this state's record of sending innocent people to death row is the highest in the nation.

I, Rikki Renee', am starting this petition because I do not believe that our deployed soldiers should have to pay for their internet, phone calls, etc. All cell phone services should work overseas that way our soldiers can use their personal phones while they're not working. They should get free wi-fi to be able to communicate with families back home and keep in touch with everyone. If our soldiers can put their lives on the line and leave their families for extended periods of time to protect our freedoms, such as wi-fi and cell phones (etc), they should get it for free. They were brave enough to step up, so all these internet and cell phone companies need to work with them. As for our congress and such, they need to make it possible for our soldiers to get the best possible treatment available while overseas. Such as 3 good meals a day, a set work schedule, the best benefits, the best care providers, first class plane tickets home, etc. They should not be hurting for anything!! And anyone with a loved one in the service knows how I feel. My husband just left me and 2 kids both under the age of 3, to serve our country and he is having to pay $90.00 a month for wi-fi, we have to get his phone suspended because it will not work over there, and their plans and missions for overseas are STILL not set in stone. Please sign this petition and lets get something done!

How is a company that does not pay its employees a living wage permitted to say it is profitable? Simple; they pass their costs of doing business on to us as taxpayers (food, healthcare and shelter for their employees) and take the bare subsistence money that should be going to their workers and give it to the shareholders instead. Enough. A company isn't "profitable" if it's workers need to rely on welfare for survival.

The outdoor channel promotes animal cruelty, and promote the criminal Melissa Bachman show, whom goes on hunting endangered species and beautiful wild animals for the sole purpose of showing off. This petition is open to all governments world wide to ban Melissa Bachmann and any hunter to obtain visas. Also we urge the readers to boycott the Outdoor channel as it promotes animal cruelty, the humans from next generations deserve to have beautiful wild animals, and these bastards are obsessed with hunting them even when wild animals numbers are dwindling fast , it is a crime against all of us, and it must be stopped

As U.S. Catholic bishops are struggling to adapt to Pope Francis's vision for a more inclusive and welcoming Catholic Church, one Illinois bishop thinks he knows exactly what the pope would want him to do: Blame marriage equality on the devil and schedule an "exorcism" at the same time the governor signs it into law. According to Bishop Thomas Paprocki, the Illinois legislature is "morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin … We must pray for deliverance from this evil which has penetrated our state and our church." While other Catholics are working to put service to the poor and broken at the center of the church's ministry, Bishop Paprocki is embarrassing the church with a pointless political stunt, staging what he's calling "prayers of supplication and exorcism in reparation for the sin of same-sex marriage."

FOR HEALTHIER FOOD!

I have worked two three jobs for long time I am tired for anyone who has done that knows what I am talking about. Washington DC put on the ballot for $15 an hour and it was voted in New Jersey did the same $8.25 hour.

As students at Indiana State University we see our tuition rise every year. Looking at the average salaries of professors and coaches, there is a big discrepancy in where the money goes. ISU values athletics over education when you look at the data.

If Congress Along With The White House have to Live Off of Minimum Wage, Social Security, & Medicare/Medicaid like the Rest of Us Already do then Maybe they Will Raise the Living Wage & Leave the Rest Alone from Now On !!! They should not be Allowed to Work Less Then Three(3) Months Out Of The Year Either !!! The House takes the Entire Month of August Off As Well !!!