Legalize Marijuana

To start a dialogue on the causes of poverty in our country.

The Los Angeles County zoning code has loopholes in it that allow multinational big box retailers to enter without the permits smaller businesses must have, Save Altadena is asking the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to adopt a moritorium on new permits and to adopt model regulations so Multinational big boxes will have to compete on a level playing field with small local business,

Implementation of the Medicaid expansion program for Iowa.

During the 1980s, many state courts recognized the existence of public-policy exceptions to at-will employment. These courts were influenced by a large number of law review articles published since the mid-1960s that condemned the doctrine of at-will employment. And, as an increasing number of state supreme courts recognized public-policy exceptions to at-will employment, other states were willing to join the rapidly growing minority, which soon became a majority.

In his Sunday, March 10 column, Thomas Friedman asked Bill McKibben and his organization to “go crazy” if President Obama approves the Keystone XL pipeline. Specifically, Mr. Friedman wrote: "I HOPE the president turns down the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada’s far north?) But I don’t think he will. So I hope that Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy. I’m talking chain-themselves-to-the-White-House-fence-stop-traffic-at-the-Capitol kind of crazy, because I think if we all make enough noise about this, we might be able to trade a lousy Keystone pipeline for some really good systemic responses to climate change. We don’t get such an opportunity often — namely, a second-term Democratic president who is under heavy pressure to approve a pipeline to create some jobs but who also has a green base that he can’t ignore. So cue up the protests, and pay no attention to people counseling rational and mature behavior." We ask the Mr. Friedman join in any such “crazy” pipeline protests, to help bring attention to climate policy.

The fact the governor --Honorabke John Kitzerber has devoted his energy to make sure our students succeed in school--graduate in large number. He has allocated resources nt just talking--is commendable., Applauded him.

In 2011, the Aging and Disability Services Division's budget that was presented to the Nevada's legislature proposed the elimination of the Senior Tax Assistance/Rent Rebate (STARR) program. The legislature approved the elimination of the program that benefited low income seniors to fund other services, and GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL signed regardless the damage done to low income seniors.

How can we stop or slow global warming if we keep building infrastructure that contributes to global warming. No coal in Oregon.

Require the Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation to truly implement vocationaland other rehabilitational programs so that inmates who will be released have the possibility of finding employment rather than having to depend upon crime for shelter & sustenance.

Gov. Bentley says Alabama won't set up exchange, won't expand Medicaid. As a physician myself working in Alabama I see firsthand what poverty and lack of insurance can lead to. We need this. This expanded insurance coverage will save lives and eventually save the state money.  The Affordable Care Act requires that almost all individuals have health insurance by 2014 or face a fine – this was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.  However, the Supreme Court ruling allows states to choose whether or not to expand their Medicaid programs to cover individuals at 138% of the FPL by 2014.  States or the federal government will develop and implement health insurance exchanges in the states so that consumers can more easily compare health plans.  Medicaid Cost-Sharing models will change under the new eligibility programs.  If all 50 states implemented the Medicaid expansion, it would cover an additional 21.6 million of the 41.2 million currently uninsured adults (or 52%).  The additional cost of implementing the Medicaid expansion is estimated to be only a 2.8 percent increase from what states would have spent between 2014 and 2022 without the health reform law. However, this number is significantly overstated, as CBO’s calculations do not factor in the savings that state and local governments will realize in their health care spending for the uninsured

Making The Florida Public Employees Pension fund stronger