For the past three years Governor Chris Christie organized a bear hunt. During a year garbage bears are caught by the NJ Fish&Wildlife tagged and transported all around the state. In response to the siting of confused bears the state statistics show increased presence of bears. While the bear population is actually dropping. Black bears should not be moved to other areas of NJ. It introduces bear hunt around the state.

Vermont has one of the lowest gun crime rates in the country for a reason, criminals do not cross the border. Disarming citizens will only allow criminals to have a new hunting ground.

We are all affected by meanness of spirit.

Texas has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. We need to raise the minimum wage to $14 an hour and for small businesses the highest paid employee must not make more than 10 times the least paid employee.

My granchildren attend Dearington Elementary School, which is about to lose a great leader/principal, Mrs. Teri Haley. Our children's education and well being should be our top priority, as it is for Mrs. Haley. And this unfounded termanation has to be stopped!

i believe that people with mental illness should be able to work and obtain they're benefits .lets be realistic it's just a matter of time before that person relapse.

Help the mentally Ill lead more productive lives and reduce chances of gun violence, suicide or being a menace to society.

Several years ago, after having purchased a small business after engaging in all due diligence recommended by my attorney and accountant, I nonetheless lost approximately half a million dollars – my home and all my savings – due to what five attorneys who reviewed my case confirmed was clearly a case of fraud that I would almost certainly have won in a court of law. I could not prosecute, however, because I no longer had the money to pay an attorney, and no one would take the case on contingency because the numerous asset protection laws currently in place for those convicted usually allow very little if any part of a monetary judgment to actually be collectible. I am now a mid-50s single parent living paycheck to paycheck in a poor economy – no more home, retirement fund or college fund for my child - and I am far from the only individual who has experienced this type of loss with no practical recourse.

Why are we afraid to tax the rich equally and why are we afraid to our war funding? I am a Grand Rapids Dominican Sister from Michigan, am retired and see families struggling. I live on fixed income and am grateful for my help from social services. Why should some people be shut out from this help. There are so many why's that people are floating around. We have lost hope in our government. Taking recesses from your jobs, is not a noble thing to do. What are your reasons. When I was working, I did not take recesses, nor should you. Sister Joan Alflen

Bettas are intelligent and sensitive fish that are cruelly confined in tiny cups by most stores who sell them. The leading pet store chain PetSmart receives many complaints about its cruel treatment of these fish, but continues to brush them off with misleading statements that these tiny cups are 'comfortable' and 'safe' habitats. Besides trapping the fish in an undersized space, the presentation of Bettas in this manner misleads customers into thinking that tiny spaces are acceptable for Bettas. They are not. The wholesale mistreatment of these innocent creatures by PetSmart must stop.

The state recency passed senate bill 1310. just type in pasb1310. This bill now is law and most of us workers under this new formula will never be able to collect that which we payed into. unemployemnt if we are laid off. This bill passed in a sudden middle of the night fashion is wrong, ethnically, legally. and economically wrong and will hurt our economy for us as individuals and will hurt all those who work. please sing this petetion its your future that you are being asked to save. .

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and PhD student in Health Psychology. My two siblings killed themselves in 1989 and 1993. I want mandatory mental health education and medication side effect training for parents and teachers.I am tired of seeing adults suffer because since they were kids they have been victims of misdiagnosis and over-medication- especially those diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. I am tired of seeing kids not graduate from high school because they are getting high everyday before school and parents are not being held responsible. I want funding for my "Just Don't Do It" (justdontdoit.us) campagne so that I can teach people what to ask their doctors and DEMAND that suicide prevention be a TOP priority when going to school.