Beaufort is a great community that could be enhanced by the presence of a weekly farmers' market that would offer locals and tourists a chance to buy local food products and art and support the local economy.

Please end the VA Regional Office backlog for veterans who are suffering severe financial hardship. Ensuring our nation's Veteran's receive the benefits they were promised and deserve.

Our children deserve a qualified and licensed speech therapist. HB 2531 supports all school SLP to be licensed. A Speech Therapist who has a license has to follow ethics set by the Speech Board.

In the midst of the biggest reforms ever seen in Ireland's secondary education system are the Leaving Certs of 2015, current TYs and 3rd years. This petition calls on Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn, TD to provide clarity to us on what changes in the points system, the CAO, 3rd level admissions and other examinations like the HPAT will be implemented over the next two years. We are left with speculative reports and deserve certainty as we enter our last two years in secondary education. Please sign this petition and share it with your friends so that the Minister and his department are upfront with what reforms will be introduced.

Leave the harmless arcades out of the bill to ban the internet cafes run by "Allied Veterans." Doesn't seem fair to punish everyone for the acts of Allied Veterans. They should be shut down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Students at UW-Madison union have been calling on UW-Madison administration to cut the university’s contracts with the company. When students asked UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward if he'd stand up for workers' rights and for my co-workers and I, he told them that he would not support “these workers, not today.” Ward’s comments are terrible and they also ignore recommendations from the the UW-Madison Labor Licensing Policy Committee and a recent report from the Workers’ Rights Consortium—an organization UW-Madison is affiliated with—that found Palermo’s Pizza violated labor law, retaliated against us for trying to form a union and illegally fired workers. Tell UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward you won’t tolerate his comments.

it is time to put an end to gun viloence and i refuse to let the deaths of those children in newtown and all over this country be in vain

Do you live in the Boise, Idaho area? Have you struggled with telling visitors how Boise is pronunced? It's 'Boy-see' not 'Boy-zee'!

Everyone has been affected by the stalemate and inability of our Congress to work for the American people. They are so much more concerned for their positions with lobbies in the aftermath of their stints in Congress that they could care less for the benefit of us. So what if they aren't reelected? The next move if they hold their ground is to get the big bucks as a lobbyist. So what is their incentive? If I didn't work for my boss I would be fired....why can't we fire Congress when they won't do their jobs for us? Honestly, they should sacrifice their salaries themselves to contribute to managing the deficit if they want to maintain their DO NOTHING attitudes.

Bunker fuel is an extremely dirty fuel used by large ships such as oil tankers and container ships - one container ship emits as much pollution as 50 million cars. Bunker-fuel-using ships cause the hazy atmosphere and air pollution around our nation's ports and health problems in those communities. But we don't have to use this type of fuel: There is a current surplus of ships, so a phase-out of bunker fuel would encourage the newest ships to visit America's ports and lead to other environmental and safety advantages. Economically, this phase-out would raise the marginal cost of shipping goods into our ports, which would have the very beneficial effect of favoring locally manufactured goods over cheap imported goods.

The disturbing reality is that the political establishment of Washington is not interested in representing the needs of ordinary Americans. They are much more interested in representing those of the wealthy and the powerful. Super PACs are able to spend as much as they want on political advertising, giving them significant amounts of power over the political process. They elect candidates of their choice while defeating those who would oppose their agenda. America’s corrupt campaign finance system is making the voices of average Americans harder and harder to hear. The majority of money going to these super PACs does not come from large corporations, but from individuals. The top 46 of these wealthy donors have given a total of $67 million, or two-thirds of the $112 million donated to super PACs this cycle. Titans of the financial services industry, energy executives and hoteliers are now pulling the strings in our government. The democracy that America prides itself in has been undermined. “Our goal must be a government that represents all of the people, and not just those wealthy individuals and corporations who can put millions into political campaigns. Ultimately, we must amend the Constitution to clarify to the Court that our democratic elections were never intended as a tool for special interests to drown out the voices of others.” –Bernie Sanders We are the American people, and we will not allow our voices to be drowned out by Big Money. We will be heard.

Some politicians want to hurt the city economy and cut police and other jobs by repealing the food tax. Support our city and join our movement against the repealers.