In 2012 we lost Maryland Native and resident Chuck Brown, who was raised in Fairmount Heights MD. The Grammy Music Award Nominee Chuck Brown was active in lobbying Congress to fund Music and Arts in ur Schools. Your support will be forward to The Maryland National Park and Planning Commission, which owns the playground.

Since prohibition days, Montgomery County Maryland has operated retail liquor stores and wholesale supplier of both beer and wine to county stores. Today Consumers and Entrepreneurs can not own Liquor Stores in the County. Now is he time to privatize the county Retail Liquor Industry creating new jobs and business taxes for state and county.

We are petitioning to have the city exterior light code changed for security purposes.

Making housing affordable for California families isn’t just about lowering rent or mortgage payments. As a percentage of their income, low-income families spend four times as much on utilities as the average American family, and yet have the least access to technologies that can lower their bills and help keep them in their homes. California has made tremendous progress in the last five years toward making clean, affordable solar power accessible to all who want it. Since 2009, California’s groundbreaking low-income solar programs have helped thousands of families reap the benefits of rooftop solar, while promoting energy efficiency and supporting clean energy job training. But these programs are about to expire. If we don't act today, low-income families will be left behind. A bill to extend these important efforts is facing two critical votes in the senate in the next couple of weeks. Help ensure that all California families continue to have access to this money-saving, renewable energy source by asking your legislator to support the Equitable Access to Solar Energy bill (AB217).

We are resident's living inside The Wayne County Family Center, this shelter is not giving us the resources and equal housing that we are entitled to, do to our circumstances.Our families are being pushed into high crimed poverty area's and also have not been reffered to any housing programs.We feel this is not right and something need's to change for the right's of our families.

My mother and father are in their nineties and pay $12,000 a year for health care in addition to Medicare and co-payments. They are not alone. I am 61 and nearing retirement, but like many seniors cannot consider retirement until I can be assured that healthcare costs will be contained so I will be able to afford it. If Obamacare will be providing and subsidizing healthcare to those not yet 65 who do not have health insurance why not put them on Medicare at 60 and contain costs by negotiating drug prices.

No Austerity Cuts. None! Put Jobs first by investing in job creating projects to rebuild our roads, bridges, schools and energy grid!

I suffer from severe osteo arthritis and bulging discs in my lower spine.I have been prescribed Percocet for my pain. I worry about using a narcotic so do not take them as often as I need them. One of the side affects besides addiction is constipation, an ongoing problem for me. I had the opportunity to try a small amount of medical marijuana last year from someone with my same issues who was visiting from another state where it is legal. For the first time in 3 years the pain was tolerable but more importantly I was able to sleep through the night and wake up not feeling a drug hangover. If medical marijuana is legalized in Maryland I will no longer have to suffer with dibilitating pain and sleepless nights. Imagine what it could do for someone with worse issues than mine. Please Gov. O'Malley, rethink your concerns about this issue.

Congressman Scott Peters campaigned on fighting cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Now that he has been elected, he is refusing to sign the Grayson-Takano letter to the White House opposing cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He has consistently refused to take a stand on these issues that are so important to his constituents. In view of the greatest inequity in wealth and income since before the great depression, we do not want to see continued tax breaks to the 1% and corporations on the backs of seniors and the shrinking middle class. Congressman Peters must also stop referring to Social Security and Medicare as “entitlements.” They are “earned benefits” paid into throughout our working years. When we voted for Scott Peters, rather than Bilbray, we expected him to support the democratic principles he campaigned on. Congressman Peters does not deserve to be re-elected if he supports cuts to Social Security and Medicare

He is upto his eyeballs in letting the banksters and corporations steal the country. We prosecute small level crime not the real gangsters.

Currently corporations are seen as legal entities on their own.Most of our laws are about subsidizing & protecting THEIR laws & rights not peoples.We have no real retirement plans that help us nor any reasonable right to be treated with dignity nor respect.We can be fired as soon as we get to retirement age for trumped up reasons with little to no recourse.We will age out without any real socialized medical option & the fruits of our labors will be underpaid & subsidized by our tax dollars due to no real laws to mandatorily have a living wage.We pay the corporations to underpay us.We need to not fund corporations who in turn stick us with all of their associated costs that are picked up in social entitlement programs from lack of a living wage.

Raising awareness and obtaining support for CPS to abandon its current plans and dedicate the entire old Jones building as a public neighborhood high school to serve the Near South/Downtown community.