Our legislators continue to play a deadly game with our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. Irresponsible gun policies have cost the lives of too many in our state and this nation.

Plan Merida is the USA's gift to modern Mexican history, and a President G.W. Bush foreign policy continued by President Obama. Plan Merida was activated with the help of Mexican President Calderon. In Mexico, tens of thousands of people have been killed , displaced and are missing since Plan Merida began.

Protection for the whales and all marine life and their habitat.

Congressional representatives are paid by we the people and are not doing their job. In the real world of ordinary folks, anyone who doesn't show up to work 50% of the time and does not produce on the job is either fired, or is not paid. Why is this any different for our public servants? They work for us, and we pay their salaries, so I would like to petition the people to demand that their salaries be lowered, docked or discontinued until they produce and show up for work.

Heading off the Sequester by bridging the political divide.

Elderly Abuse at Nursing Homes by using surveillance cameras.

Our taxes, waste and fraud proliferate while our elected officials do nothing. This is adversely affecting every man, woman and child as well as future generations and our nation's world standing.

Congress passed the Sequester, they can repeal it. It's as easy as that. Then we wouldn't be facing these draconian cuts to our most still very fragile economy.

Keith Olbermann is the progressive movement's best spokesman. Now that current TV is gone, he should be free to be re-hired by MSNBC.

On Oct. 9, 2011, a crash on U.S. 12, east of Bell Road in Niles, MI. claimed the lives of 1-year-old Devin Stone; his father, Curtis Stone, 50, the driver of the family's car; the child's mother, Stacey Garza, 35; and the baby's grandmother, Kathleen Marks, 57. Cecilia Cheney, 44, received 90 days in jail and was ordered to pay $800 in fines and costs based on her earlier no-contest plea to four counts of moving violation causing death. This accident was the result of Mrs. Cheney taking her eyes off the road. She looked down at her purse on the passenger's seat, which indicated she also may have reached to grab the purse or retrieve something. She was also driving 67 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. This woman took four innocent lives all the result of her carelessness and all she received was an $800.00 fine and 90 days in jail.......what do these innocent families now get to suffer through without their loved ones? These laws need to be changed for Michigan, this isn't justice at all!!!!!!

Each winter season the Illinois Department of Transportation,( IDOT ) hires temporary workers, (highway maintainers) to help with winter operations, (i.e. snow removal, etc.). But when it comes time to hire for full time, permanent employees, IDOT will not hire any of the temporary workers unless they are veterns. There are hundreds, if not thousands of dedicated temporary employees, like myself of 9 years, who should be given a fair chance to be hired as a permanent employee. We are well qualified and already trained to do the work.

There is an obvious surfeit of guns in America.I propose the formation of an organization funded by donations to buy and recycle excess inventory found at pawn stores, gun shows, and from private parties.