The thousands of people who live in North Amherst plus the 25,000 more who commute through North Amherst every day need better opportunities to buy fresh local food. We want Atkins North!

We are starting this petition because there is a proposal by the School Board to outsource the New Castle School Food Service Department. The School Administration should not need a private company to manage their departments.

When ordering a package over the Internet, many times you are not offered a method of shipment. Often if you specify a PO Box the shipper will send you an email "we can't deliver to PO Boxes" so then you give them your street address. If the package is sent via UPS Sure Post, the UPS will drop it off at the Arizona City Post Office, it will promptly be marked as undeliverable and returned. Previously we had a workaround, add our PO box to the zip code (+4) and the Arizona City Post Office would deliver it anyway. Now the Arizona City Post Office informs us that the USPS has a (+4) zip code system that makes the use of PO boxes as +4 unreliable and cannot be used. We are, all required to have our street addresses on file at the Arizona City Post Office as a condition of having a PO Box. The volume of mail/packages arriving daily do not allow the Contractors to deal with these and so they are returned to sender UNDELIVERABLE. The good people who run the Arizona City post office are private contractors and must budget and bid for the business. This would be a funding issue that would have to be approved by the Post Master in Casa Grande. If you live in Arizona city and want to get a pre-paid debit card, you will have similar issues. Pre-paid debit card companies will tell you that they are required by Federal Law to use your physical address and they will only mail the card to a physical address. So if you order a pre-paid debit card and you live in Arizona City, and you follow the law, you will never see your prepaid debit card. What we are asking the US Post Master in Casa Grande to do is allow/require mail sent to street addresses in Arizona City to be delivered to PO Boxes. This petition is NOT a referendum on PO Box delivery vs Street/Neighborhood Delivery. This is a Petition to add Street Addressed mail to the daily PO Box deliver in Arizona city

”It should be our choice as parents to keep our children at the same elementary school in the district or move to the middle school. Not all 4th graders are ready for middle school. To force a child who is not ready for middle school could really influence and impact that child on many levels, including academic and socially...We understand the challenges of the number of students to consider but a lottery serves as a very unsettling direction for the children and families.. Many of the children at Castlemont started as kindergartner’s g and have stayed within the school making it their home while establishing long lasting relationships with teachers and peers that encourages their confidence on all levels. Please consider adding another 5th grade class to support the need to allow the 4th graders who wish to stay the chance to do so.”

Akk efforts to start a peace process in the Middle East have been scuttled by Israel. The US has squandered billions of aid money and we have been complicit in creating a great deal of hardship and injustice towards the Palestinians.

Most people support a wage increase. I believe they will vote in 2014 for the person that pushes for the increase.

House Democrats have broken Speaker John Boehner's deadlock and introduced an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million without papers. So far, over 180 House Democrats have signed on as cosponsors! But in order to get this bill past the finish line, we're going to need Republican support. The good news is that it's there. Your district's representative in the House, Congressman Doc Hastings, is part of a group of Republicans who are open to immigration reform. His support for this new bill could be the tipping point for our movement. If he becomes a part of the growing group of Republicans who have already cosponsored this bill, we know more of his colleagues in his party will build up the courage to follow. However, while Rep. Hastings has said he's open to voting on immigration reform, he remains unclear about supporting a path to citizenship for the 11 million aspiring Americans. This simply isn't good enough. Right now, we have a good bill waiting in the House -- we just need to get Rep. Hastings to come to our side. He needs to join the more than 180 House members and cosponsor this new immigration bill! We need you and other advocates in your district to pressure Rep. Hastings into supporting this bill. If we get Rep. Hastings on board, your district could make all the difference for the millions without papers across the nation. The momentum is on our side because enough votes exist in the House to pass reform today. But instead Speaker Boehner hides behind excuses, delays, and flat-out refuses to give us a vote. We've come too far to stop now. Tell Rep. Hastings to stand up for his district by cosponsoring this new immigration bill in the House and passing the path to citizenship for the 11 million!

House Democrats have broken Speaker John Boehner's deadlock and introduced an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million without papers. So far, over 180 House Democrats have signed on as cosponsors! But in order to get this bill past the finish line, we're going to need Republican support. The good news is that it's there. Your district's representative in the House, Congressman Buck McKeon, is part of a group of Republicans who are open to immigration reform. His support for this new bill could be the tipping point for our movement. If he becomes a part of the growing group of Republicans who have already cosponsored this bill, we know more of his colleagues in his party will build up the courage to follow. While Rep. McKeon has indicated he wants to "make [undocumented immigrants] legal, give them some kind of status to bring them into the system," he has not given any indication whether he wants to allow them to become citizens, or keep them in second-class status. But that's simply not good enough. We already have a good bill waiting in the House, and the time for vagueness is over. Rep. McKeon needs to instead stand for all aspiring Americans by joining the more than 180 House members and cosponsoring this new immigration bill! We need you and other advocates in your district to pressure Rep. McKeon into supporting this bill. If we get Rep. McKeon on board, your district could make all the difference for the millions without papers across the nation. The momentum is on our side because enough votes exist in the House to pass reform today. But instead Speaker Boehner hides behind excuses, delays, and flat-out refuses to give us a vote. We've come too far to stop now. Tell Rep. McKeon to stand up for his district by cosponsoring this new immigration bill in the House and passing the path to citizenship for the 11 million!

House Democrats have broken Speaker John Boehner's deadlock and introduced an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million without papers. So far, over 180 House Democrats have signed on as cosponsors! But in order to get this bill past the finish line, we're going to need Republican support. The good news is that it's there. Your district's representative in the House, Congressman Paul Cook, is part of a group of Republicans who are open to immigration reform. His support for this new bill could be the tipping point for our movement. If he becomes a part of the growing group of Republicans who have already cosponsored this bill, we know more of his colleagues in his party will build up the courage to follow. However, Rep. Cook supports legalization for the 11 million-- "as long as a bill includes strict border and visa enforcement”—but has not taken a stance on citizenship. But that's simply not enough. We already have a good bill waiting in the House, and the time for vagueness is over. Rep. Cook needs to instead stand for all aspiring Americans by joining the more than 180 House members and cosponsoring this new immigration bill! We need you and other advocates in your district to pressure Rep. Cook into supporting this bill. If we get Rep. Cook on board, your district could make all the difference for the millions without papers across the nation. The momentum is on our side because enough votes exist in the House to pass reform today. But instead Speaker Boehner hides behind excuses, delays, and flat-out refuses to give us a vote. We've come too far to stop now. Tell Rep. Cook to stand up for his district by cosponsoring this new immigration bill in the House and passing the path to citizenship for the 11 million!

House Democrats have broken Speaker John Boehner's deadlock and introduced an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million without papers. So far, over 180 House Democrats have signed on as cosponsors! But in order to get this bill past the finish line, we're going to need Republican support. The good news is that it's there. Your district's representative in the House, Congressman Trey Radel, is part of a group of Republicans who are open to immigration reform. His support for this new bill could be the tipping point for our movement. If he becomes a part of the growing group of Republicans who have already cosponsored this bill, we know more of his colleagues in his party will build up the courage to follow. However, while Rep. Radel has said that he wants to consider giving legal status to the 11 million, he thinks the solution “may not include full rights of citizenship.” This simply isn't good enough. Right now, we have a good bill waiting in the House -- we just need to get Rep. Radel to come to our side. He needs to join the more than 180 House members and cosponsor this new immigration bill! We need you and other advocates in your district to pressure Rep. Radel into supporting this bill. If we get Rep. Radel on board, your district could make all the difference for the millions without papers across the nation. The momentum is on our side because enough votes exist in the House to pass reform today. But instead Speaker Boehner hides behind excuses, delays, and flat-out refuses to give us a vote. We've come too far to stop now. Tell Rep. Radel to stand up for his district by cosponsoring this new immigration bill in the House and passing the path to citizenship for the 11 million!

House Democrats have broken Speaker John Boehner's deadlock and introduced an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million without papers. So far, over 180 House Democrats have signed on as cosponsors! But in order to get this bill past the finish line, we're going to need Republican support. The good news is that it's there. Your district's representative in the House, Congressman Gary Miller, is part of the group of House Republicans who are open to immigration reform. His support for this new bill could be the tipping point for our movement. If he becomes a part of the growing group of Republicans who have already cosponsored this bill, we know more of his colleagues in his party will build up the courage to follow. We know Rep. Miller is ready to listen to you and our movement. While he's expressed sympathy for DREAMers, we need him to extend that to the rest of the 11 million aspiring Americans—and to turn “sympathy” into concrete support for citizenship. We already have a good bill waiting in the House, and we just need to get Rep. Miller to stand by all immigrants -- not just some. He needs to join the more than 180 House members and cosponsor this new immigration bill! We need you and other advocates in your district to pressure Rep. Miller into supporting this bill. If we get Rep. Miller on board, your district could make all the difference for the millions without papers across the nation. The momentum is on our side because enough votes exist in the House to pass reform today. But instead Speaker Boehner hides behind excuses, delays, and flat-out refuses to give us a vote. We've come too far to stop now. Tell Rep. Miller to stand up for all immigrants by cosponsoring this new immigration bill in the House and passing the path to citizenship for the 11 million!

Vallas' accomplishments in Chicago, New Orleans, and Philadelphia was pretty much the privatizing of schools, the reduction of public accountability, and the undermining of strong unions. And now he's in Haiti working his magic "fixing" the lives of even poorer young people. I have absolutely no problem signing a petition for Quinn but I'd hesitate signing a petition with Vallas on it. One stroke or heart attack and we would have Governor Vallas and Mayor Emanuel? No no no. Governor Quinn should choose a running mate that will make Illinois a better state to live in for everyone, not just for a few wealthy individuals.