HB 953 or Senate Bill 2738 - MIssissippi Food Freedom Act

Open letter To President Obama: Dear President Obama, It was with great relief and gratitude that we welcomed, at long last, a clarion call in your inaugural address to "respond to the threat of climate change" -- the greatest threat, challenge, and opportunity of our time. We thank you for these words, because your words are powerful, and necessary for change. But words are not enough. We need action. Mr. President, you are the first leader in our history who will be judged by what you do -- or do not do -- to protect your people from the already-begun ravages and disruptions brought about by fossil fuels. So far, Mr. President, you are failing in the face of our earth heating up, and the damage accelerating. Just a few months ago, we witnessed New York and New Jersey swallowed up by our still-rising oceans. Our worsening nationwide drought, after the hottest year on record, is clear evidence that our planet is not healing, but is hurtling toward greater climate disruption. The simple truth is that you will continue failing in the fight against climate change, as long as you continue an energy policy which treats equally the fuels that are hurting us and those that will save us. To meet your call on climate change, your "all of the above" energy policy must end. Your support for fracking and drilling, coal mines and pipelines, continues to obliterate the progress you could be making with your administration's gas mileage rule, or your investments in renewable energy. Even if you finally issue a carbon pollution rule that addresses existing sources of pollution, it will mean nothing if you are simultaneously lighting the fuses on carbon bombs by approving the Keystone XL pipeline, Arctic drilling, or fossil fuel export projects. You must use the power of your office and our federal lands to stop promoting fossil fuel development, and reject these projects outright. While we recognize that a majority in the House of Representatives are clearly not on the side of science or sanity, you can and must find a way - within Congress or the power of your office - to end fossil fuel subsidies and giveaways, and put a price on all greenhouse gas pollution, so that fossil fuel executives can no longer get rich from the destabilization of our climate, and so fossil-free energy can thrive. If Congress remains in the way, you must fight to change Congress. You must invest significantly in sustainable sources of energy as part of a plan to rapidly transition our nation from fossil fuels. And these efforts should be coupled with resources to help our cities, states and industries prepare for the damage that climate change is already bringing. (The $50 billion Sandy relief package and the drought's impacts on food prices are just two painful reminders that the cost of inaction is enormous, and untenable.) Confronting climate change also happens to be our best opportunity to create the broad-based economic revitalization that your policies have largely failed to achieve. This is not simply an empty trope of idealistic environmentalists, it is the truth. Mr. President, we are urging you to do as our other Illinois president did when confronted with the great moral issue of his time: to take bold, decisive action to end one great societal ill, changing the economy in the process, and usher in a new era of American freedom, security and prosperity. This is the moment. We will support you. But you must lead and take action, starting first and foremost with your rejection of the presidential permit required by the Keystone XL pipeline, which is your decision and yours alone. Sincerely, Becky Bond, Political Director, CREDO Michael Kieschnick, President and CEO, CREDO Elijah Zarlin, Senior Campaign Manager, CREDO [YOUR NAME HERE]

Do not replace the revenue obtained from the state income tax by higher sales taxes! This only hurts low income families and those below the poverty line. If you don't believe this ask any low income family in Tennessee about their grocery bills.

Leave the current procedure for the electoral votes as is for teh State of Ohio. There isn't any need to change our system that has worked in th epast and will continue to work in the future

EITHER WE SHOULD LEAVE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AS IS OR WE SHOULD ABOLISH IT ALTOGETHER AND GO TO A SYSTEM OF ONE VOTER ONE VOTE.....

The price of parking and traffic tickets has skyrocketed over the past five years. While our state needs funding, the price of both parking and moving violations has reached a level that inconsistent with the income levels of many California residents, causing undue financial hardship. People do lose their cars in some instances because they cannot afford to pay the high price of car-related fines. Los Angeles, as one example, is a city that often requires driving and from the workplace; it does not yet have a fast, reliable public transport system and has long traveling distances. Parking fees throughout California have risen along with the cost of meter violations. The cost traffic and parking violations does not significantly reduce violations of traffic or parking laws. The costs are overly punitive and cause more problems for tax-payer's than the money generated for the state solves. If you would like to have the cost parking and traffic violations significantly reduced, please sign this petition.

We need a carbon tax to cover the costs of fossil fuel pollution (carbon dioxide) and level energy market.

Some states have 3 day rules to report a rape. While this makes some sense think of how it affects the smallest victims - children. It may take more than three days to report a rape - the victim should be able to report the rape when they are ready - this limitation should be illegal. Also some states have limitations on the time period to convict a rapist - as this crime is one of the worst next to murder there should be no statutue of limitations on rape. A rapist should be convicted and a victim should have ample time to report the violation as it is a sensitive conviction. And if the rapist manages to hide from the law for 7 years this is not a reason to drop the conviction - there should be no statute of limitations for a rape conviction. Laws applying to rape cases - eliminating these restrictions to victims should be federal law so that the states cannot interfere with victims constitutional rights.

My petition is designed to prompt the governor and state legislature to consider establishing a State chartered bank.

I have spent a year trying to find a house that fits a wheel chair because of substandard door ways. There is actually no standard in California. Interior and exterior doors, including bedrooms and bathrooms, private and public, need to be at least 32 inches wide with room to maneuver a wheel chair on both sides of the door.

I have spent a year trying to find a house that fits a wheel chair because of substandard door ways. There is actually no standard in California. Interior and exterior doors, including bedrooms and bathrooms, private and public, need to be at least 32 inches wide with room to maneuver a wheel chair on both sides of the door.

Raise it now. It's necessary for the working poor and it's goodfor the state economy.