People who work hard and play by the rules should be paid enough to live with dignity and raise a family. But Senate Republicans are pushing to cut our state's minimum wage by 25% for new workers. Workers in restaurants and many other service industries would earn only $6.89 an hour for their first 6 month or more - not nearly enough to support themselves or their family.

Senator Carona's Bill essentially cuts the legs out from underneath our Texas Craft Brewers!

Instead of firing 30,000 teachers, cutting funding for thousands of first responders in local communities, eliminating more than 4 million meals for senior citizens, and cutting after school programs for over one million children, I propose that all members of Congress receive a pay reduction. The reduction will be evenly distributed among all members of Congress.

Other states have effectivly used gambling revenue to lower tax rates.

Newsday has continually attacked teachers and the education system in a biased manner. On a daily basis hardworking educators are demoralized by its rhetoric.

I AM A SENIOR CITIZEN AND I KNOW MANY OTHERS WHO CANT AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE . TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE ELDERS AND THE YOUNG AND INVALID IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF THIS OFFER FROM THE GOVERMENT

I awoke one morning with the sun shining through the window as I listened to the early morning dj give the morning news and I heard words that were tantamount to a declaration of war against the residents of the State of New York. "During the night while Registered Voters and Tax Payers slept, Albany took away the Peoples Right to Referendum."

It has long been illegal to send spam to fax machines because the recipient pays for the fax phone line and its minutes, and for the electricity to run the machine, and for the fax paper and ink or toner; and so sending fax spam steals those things from the recipient. Whenever one lands on a web page which contains streaming audio and/or video media that auto-starts playing (or that auto-buffers in anticipation of starting to play), the precious and limited bandwidth for which the site visitor pays his/her ISP is being similarly stolen. Only if the site visitor gives permission to use said bandwidth by clicking on a "Play" button to begin the playing of the streaming media content should any bandwidth be used for it; and so it should be illegal, just as it is with fax spam, for a website to steal bandwidth from site visitors by auto-starting/auto-buffering streaming media content. NOTE: Flash or Java/Javascript or Silverlight or other similar content which simply makes interactive the graphical elements of a website, while annoying, are nevertheless not the subjects of this petition. It is only music (background or otherwise), or either advertising or news videos, which auto-play/auto-buffer, and so use-up precious bandwidth for which the site visitor pays, that are the subjects of this petition.

Before he totally ruins Florida...

Women are lawfully entitled to equal wages.

We must STOP this ridiculous changing of our clocks twice every year. The costs in terms of serious errors in judgment that lead to myriad accidents involving motor vehicles, medical care, machine-operators, etc. as well as lost productivity (including groggy students) affect all of us and DO NOT justify whatever benefits Daylight Savings Time might offer. Please contact your State and/or federal legislators and encourage them to bring this issue to their respective legislative Congresses for a vote. If pursued at the federal level, ALL states would be affected by the change. However, individual states can also choose (and some have) to opt-out of this archaic, useless and dangerous practice of Daylight Savings Time and the havoc it wreaks.

We want the voter`s in the town of Chester to have the all the budget info in front of them when it comes time to vote on the school budget!