The Administration of Governor Steve Beshear plans to dramatically cut child care assistance in the state of Kentucky beginning on April 1, 2013. This program helps working parents and caregivers pay for child care so they can work and go to school. Thousands of children will be impacted as parents turned to unlicensed care or have to quit their jobs. Hundreds of child care centers are also likely to close, laying off their staff at a time when jobs are still scarce.

bettering everybody to have a great life

This is for everyone and anyone having to struggle with their monthly bills while the politics and wall street class gets bailed out! Middle class needs a bail out!

Getting the Governor to do what's right for Texas///No this issue has not affected me, but, it's the moral thing to do.

KEEP FRANKENFISH OUT OF OUR FOOD CHAIN. During the holidays, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) took a controversial step toward approving the first-ever genetically-engineered fish made for human consumption. These fish are the spawn of a company called AquaBounty Technologies and are engineered in foreign laboratories to grow twice as fast as natural Atlantic salmon. And if that’s not scary enough, the FDA isn’t even planning on thoroughly studying all the environmental risks presented by these Frankenfish before giving the green light to AquaBounty. This means these Frankenfish will be produced on a commercial scale before anyone knows what damaging impacts they may have if they invade our most sensitive natural marine environments. The FDA wants to be able to save these crucial questions for a later time, but these questions need to be answered now, before it’s too late.

Since Congressional member wish to put Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid on the 'chopping block', they must first surrender the very generous benefits given to them by their constituents, the American people. The Congressional benefits are not 'entitlements' as the Congress people do not contribute to them - rather the public does. If they start there, then we can think about the rest.

Some countries have environmental protection as a main concept in their consitution. America has seen the extinction of several species of flora and fauna and the decimation of biodiversity and the pollution of air and waters. In America's past, poor environmental policy helped lead to the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century as more people were seen to cause just more pollution. Out of respect for indigenous America, to help stop Hate Crimes, it would be ethical to have an amendment to better protect America's environment. This would lead to better environmentally-friendly jobs, and help protect America's future. Panama has a strong environmental policy, and the USA broke it during the Vietnam War when they tested Agent Orange in Panama. The USA needs a better environmental outlook.

North Carolina has become the puppy mill state since there are no laws on the books to regulate private sellers in their homes. I am a responsible pet owner and believe that all animals have the right to live in a safe and sanitary and LOVING HOME. There are more than enough pets to rescue without breeding them!! The director of the NC chapter American Dog Owner's Association was on the news the other day saying that he doesn't support these laws because it might cost too much for a "responsible" breeder to comply with the laws. I believe until we get the homeless population of dogs, (and cats for that matter), under control we should have very strict regulations on breeding pets.

mental health concerns all people (not just those with mental health issues)these people with this challenge need to be able to access the help they so desperately need & to have a limit on the amount of days they can get this help as a inpatient is illresponsible,my grandson has been placed at a in care hospital & can only be there for 9 days cause thats all medicaid will cover,also they should provide medicines on a once only pre authorized status, as he has also ran out of meds waiting on them to be pre-authorized

Gov. Corbett's plan to rig the electoral college in future presidential elections.

Hate Crimes issue--there is a large statue on Central Park's Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street of "Dr. Marion Sims, Father of Gynecology" a 19th Century Alabama "doctor" who performed many documented gruesome gynecological experiments on several African slave women in the 19th Century in his backyard without anesthesia. This was during the time when many in the medical community were using gruesome experimentation of African black slaves to enforce the slave system (especially in the South). The experiments are well documented even in medical journals. There is no mention of any of the victims on the statue. He encouraged backyard experimentation of slaves whether he wanted to or not. The statue belongs in a museum on slavery not as a regular great statue. Yet, it is listed as a highlight in Central Park and it also happens to be across from the Academy of Medicine. What should be investigated is why the government's various civil rights departments have not had it removed.

Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc. is bidding to operate all concessions in Glacier National Park for 16 years. They are owned by one of the wealthiest billionaires in the nation, Philip Frederick Anschutz. His Anschutz Exploration Corp. is currently drilling exploratory wells to frack the Blackfeet Reservation immediately east of Glacier National Park. Fracking is one of the greatest threats facing Glacier National Park. It is unconscionable that the National Park Service would give such a coveted contract Phil Anschutz.