My daughter is a Special Needs Child within the Mesquite Public Schools. We were asked if we wanted her to Participate in Special Olympics (Young Athletes). Can you believe our surprise when we were told that the school district has nothing for Younger Children with Special needs.

Due to not enough housing available for the older adult population, I have been on wait lists for the past 2 years for affordable housing. I have been recently been declared disabled and live in a mentally abusive, possibly physically abusive situation. I have tried contacting every agency available in Linn/Benton county to advocate for me to get into housing sooner on wait lists due to my living situation. There are no agencies or laws to intervene in this matter. Even after letters from health care professionals and personal mental therapists relaying how unhealthy my living situation is - these have been cast aside and have no weight in this matter. I'm am STILL living in fear of not knowing what will happen next? I am sure there are others, like myself, in this type of situation. There should be exceptions on housing wait lists for those of us who are living with the same adversities.

Are you like me? Filled with anxiety over the future for you and your kids and their kids? For your retirement? For your continued capacity to even pay your bills? All the while our nation slogs through the reckless sabotage of our president's economic recovery proposals, -- even as our deficit shrinks, as our corporations profit and the stock market booms, --- our workers continue to suffer. Something is basically upside-down and it is time to set it right!

Charges for medical services bear little relation to cost to the provider, and vary widely, often hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Without notice the patient receives an outrageous bill. Current state law has somehow not protected victims of the abuses. That law should be clarified. Medical providers not complying with law should forfeit.

Prosecutors failures to to adhere to their protocol to protect tax payers in WV from being unfairly taxed and other pay little or nothing. No Prosecution for these illegal acts of jury of their peers.

We are NRAGED (Nassau Residents Against Gambling Enterprise Development) and we are standing up to big interest and saying NO to casinos in Nassau County. Join us in protecting our children, homes, and the suburban fiber of Nassau County!

Getting an east-west highway.

The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy, and they should be stopped. But if Congress insists on cutting anyone's salary, they should cut their own paychecks first. In fact, they have proposed a 20% across-the-board pay cut for 800,000 federal employees - all while leaving their salaries safely intact. If hard working employees will see an unexpected pay cut because Congress can’t get its own job done, shouldn’t our Congress members also see a pay cut? After all, we pay their salaries. As a state politician in Maine, I am seeing first-hand the devastating impact these cuts will have on our local communities. Why should our Congressional representatives not feel some of the pain, if they're so convinced that cuts are the answer? The least they can do is cut their own salaries first. Because of the 27th amendment, Congress can't change their salaries until 2014, but if the sequester happens, it'll cut public services for the next 10 years. So Congress needs to make sure that the next Congress, and every one after that, also feels the cut. Instead, they specifically exempted their own salaries.

Many of Our Elderly are Existing in Poverty and our Government don't care. They want our Elderly to just die. _________________________________________________ Take care of our Elderly. They took care of you when you could not take care of yourself. Now it is your time to take care of them. They are "The Least Among Us". Increase their Social Security checks, so they can live out the rest of their life's with dignity. No one can live of $900 - $1200 per month. 60 - 70 percent of our elderly exist in poverty. The cost of a room in an assisted living facility starts at about $3500 + ++ per month. Our Elderly can't afford that and thousands of them don't have Medicaid to pay for it, so they exist in poverty and die alone. ALL of our elderly should qualify for Medicaid or Medicare should cover the cost for our Elderly.

In recent years, HIV/AIDS programs both in Massachusettes and nationwide has been severly underfunded by the State and Federal Governments. Last year in Massachusettes alone, the State Legislature voted to have no increases in spending even though many programs throughout the state were suffering from the cut-backs made to their budgets. This alone made many programs face the decision of whether to cut-back on services to clients or shut their doors to them completely. This is unacceptable as their was actually an increase in the HIV infection rate in Massachusettes and nationwide. My service agency in Boston (The largest Service Agency in the State) had too cut back on transportation to doctors appointments, Court Apperances, Housing Assistance, Case Management, Needle Exchange, Educational Programs and other services to their clients. I am suffering from the devestating effects of this disease, which is complicated by a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Last year, many people had to go without the services that they have come to rely upon in previous years (ie Mobile Health Clinics, Transportation, Case Management etc.) due to the decisions of the people that we have put into office. Please join me in fighting back on these choices and say to our elected officials that this disease is still a major issue. Let your voice be heard that HIV/AIDS programs and services need to be fully funded rather than sending our dollars to other countries to bail them out of THEIR PROBLEMS.

Legalization of domestic skunks in Washington state. They are so misunderstood in fact they are wonderful pets. It is legal in Oregon state but, the skunk must be imported from a different state along with a health permit and a importation permit. It should be the same in Washington state with the same requirement.

Oahu needs a new artificial reef. Having a new shipwreck would increase tourism, benefit the local economy, help the local environment, and be free press for Oahu.