UPDATE: A vote on Medicaid expansion could come as early as next week on Tuesday, March 4. We can override Gov. LePage's expected veto if we get enough legislators on board–and we're close! Please sign this petition and call your state legislators to tell them you want 70,000 Mainers to be able to have access to health care! ----- Governor Paul LePage has indicated that he may not accept new federal dollars to expand the state's Medicaid program. By rejecting these funds, nearly 70,000 Mainers will be uninsured. Tell Governor LePage to reverse course and accept federal Medicaid dollars and protect the 50,000 Mainers that would benefit.

Jerry is a Nice yet Thoughtful Man, He Helps Children in the Neighborhood With Their Bikes and things. He Bothers No-one Yet Stay to Himself. Please Let Jerry Go.

HB 206, introduced at the NM Legislature by NM Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R) would seek to force women to carry to term a fetus as a result of rape or incest. Now, Cathrynn Brown is trying to back-track and say the bill was a mistake. I DON'T BUY THAT. Her bill was an addition to current statutes of just 41 words, and Rep. Brown is a lawyer trained to read complex documents. Plus she had 9 proofreaders in her co-sponsors! I worked at a Rape Crisis Center all through law school and it is so clear to me that she has no experience in assisting rape victims, but she is again failing to stand up for NM women. Cathrynn Brown must withdraw the bill & RESIGN NOW! We are also asking the following co-sponsors to withdraw the legislation and explain their actions: Reps. Anna M. Crook, Candy Spence Ezzell, Diane Miller Hamilton, Jane E. Powdrell-Culbert, Sharon Clahchischilliage, Nora Espinoza, Kelly Fajardo, Yvette Herrell and Monica Youngblood.

Last year, Governor Chris Christie announced that he would not accept new federal dollars to expand the state's Medicaid program. By rejecting these funds, nearly 300,000 New Jerseyans will be uninsured. Tell Governor Christie to reverse course and accept federal Medicaid dollars and protect the 300,000 New Jerseyans that would benefit.

This past Wednesday night, the Portland City Council was scheduled to vote on a common sense and overwhelmingly popular measure to make sure our city doesn't spend taxpayer dollars on dirty tar sands oil for city buses, heating, and other energy needs. Tar sands oil is a new, much dirtier form of oil that ExxonMobil wants to bring into Maine from Canada through an old pipeline that goes right by Sebago Lake, where Portland gets our drinking water. But what happened was like what you'd expect from Washington, D.C., not local Portland politics. A swarm of highly paid oil industry lobbyists filled the room and the vote on the bill was delayed, giving the industry time to launch a public misinformation campaign that we're already seeing in local papers. We'll get another chance to pass this bill, but now that Big Oil is lobbying the council, we really need regular folks to make your voices heard. That's why I started a petition calling on Jill Duson, Nick Mavadones, Ed Suslovic, and the rest of the Portland City Council to stop the delays and make Portland tar sands free. Pipelines carrying this new thicker, heavier kind of oil are more prone to spills, in part because enormous pressure is needed to move it through a pipeline. Tar sands oil spills are also way more difficult to clean up because the oil is heavier and sinks. The measure to make Portland tar sands free is supported by Mayor Mike Brennan, and 18 major corporations and two other cities have already adopted the policy. Given how pro-environment Portland is, and how dirty tar sands are, this seemed like pretty much a no-brainer—until the oil industry lobbyists showed up. Ask any Portlander and they'll tell you we need to move to cleaner sources of energy. We certainly shouldn't be spending tax dollars on even dirtier sources of energy. We count on our local officials to represent us here in Portland, not corporate lobbyists from Exxon. Council members David Marshall, John Anton, and Kevin Donoghue are standing up for Portland against the oil lobbyists, but the rest of the council needs to follow their lead, stop the delays, and commit to not spending our taxpayer dollars on dirty tar sands oil.

One bill being proposed by a N.C. Senate leader is to replace the state income tax with a sales tax. This would proportionately hurt poor and middle-class people, who spend practically every dime they make every month, and it would give a huge break to rich people, who are the only ones who can afford to sock away a substantial portion of their income every month. And seniors living off their savings and social security, who have already paid all their taxes over their lifetimes, would be taxed, yet again, on those monies. Vote no on this proposal.

Education in very importantna and eventhought my children attended private schools, I support the petition to advocate for stopping the Budget cuts to the education. You need to improve the security systems in public schools in the entire nation.

My family, friends and co-workers quality of life has been effected.

Harry Reid: “I’m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold”

Too many people in our state do not get access to healthcare except in the most expensive way, the emergency room. If they are unable to pay this hurts our hospitals and increases our insurance.

Get Microsoft to greatly reduce the cost of changing your xbox live gamertag. Its understandable that MS dont want people changing their gamer tag contstantly but the prohibitive cost is blocking the xbox live community from growing. Lets get the cost down to 400 microsoft points, cheap enough to be fair but high enough to stop constant name changes.

Our current education system is too expensive and many young students must now use private loans to cover their tuition gap. According to the pew report in 2010, 70% of total debt was owed by households headed by those under 45. The average national debt per student was $26,000 dollars in 2010. All trends point towards increased borrowing to keep pace with the rocketing cost of education. Personally I owe over 50,000 dollars in private loans from my masters degree. Four of my loans have high variable interest rates and none of these loans can be consolidated for better rates or terms of repayment. Students are graduating into a dismal job market with overwhelming debt, and high variable interest rates. It's time to give graduates a break and offer the same benefits provided by the federal government.