Richard (Smiley) Shute is a special needs adult and has bad separation anxiety when he is away from his mother, who is also handicapped and in a wheelchair. He does not deserve this and his mother doesn't either.

I want to permanently stop Daylight Saving Time in California. And I want it to stop this year (have 2012 have been the last year of having it).

Gun control is very important, I feel insecure for kids in schools, we need prayer back in schools. We need work to improve the economy.

I Hired a Contractor that ultimatly destroyed my home leaving it in danger of collasping on top of me. I am fighting to get my money back but Im in a loosing battle with his high paid Attorneys and staff. Help me Stop Deceptive Trades and make all contractors in Texas Accountable for their actions, require them to carry insurance..

I am doing an essay about this topic and feel strongly that it should be placed into more serious consequences if you commit this crime.

A month ago I traveled with my family to visit my parents over the holidays. As we had done in the past, we traveled with American Airlines. We had a horrible experience with some of AA's employees, but during the experience found out that even though we work hard trying to find reservations where we can sit together with our young children (we have 3 year old twins), American Airlines does not guarantee seating reservation and will most likely separate parties (regardless of the age of the children). If that is the case, I do not understand why they continue with the farse of making you chose flights where you can find seats together. I wrote a letter to a number of officials in American and am still waiting for an explanation of what is driving this. In the meantime, I do believe that as a mother, I should have the right to get what I pay for and be allowed to sit with my children during a flight (regardless of the class I am traveling in)

Dr. Alexander Apostle has recently been offered and accepted a 13% pay raise, causing his salary to be increased to $200,000. As students who have been attending schools within the MCPS boundaries, we believe that Dr. Alexander Apostle does not deserve and should reject the raise. We need to see immediate change within the Missoula School Board and Toni Rehbein's actions concerning the Education Budget. If this does not happen, we ask the Missoula community to see it through that Toni Rehbein does not become reelected to the school board, in May. This includes all members of the School Board not serving in the best interest of the students of Missoula.

Dear MoveOn.org Supporter: End the Prohibition of medically prescribed marijuana and also the using of marijuana recreationally. The only effect the "War On Drugs' has, as far as pot is concerned, is to keep an increasingly vicious group of drug criminals and their international banking cohorts, also criminals, in ridiculous wealth and power to corrupt the political systems of the world even more every day. People will get pot if they want it, just as they did alcoholic beverages 90 or 100 years ago, and all that money could be accruing to the US Treasury, from taxes and direct sales, where it is obviously direly needed (instead of wasting more money on a futile and humanly destructive additional war). This is the one federal policy area where I can not agree with the rationale of the President, whatever that is, because I have asked President Obama and his staff to let me know what the rationale could possibly be for so regressive a policy) in three letters, over the last six months, and I have had no response from anyone. I am a strong supporter of the President in most other areas, and he did answer me personally when, in previous months, I advocated his landslide reelection publicly. I still hope he will do so on this important issue as well. My personal involvement in this issue involves my father's glaucoma some years ago, I have also suggested, if he is generally against smoking for health reasons, that he allow marijuana consumption in the liquid form known as "cannabinol." Public attitudes are obviously changing, witness the surprising reversals in Colorado and Washington states, where marijuana was decriminalized even for recreational uses, as well as prescribed medical ones. Ask him to explain what he hopes to gain. Terry Alden Cupertino, California January 22, 2013

It has recently come to our attention that the administration has rescinded the ability for January admits and transfers to pledge in their first semester at Hamilton College. January admits and transfers not only make up a large percentage of Hamilton's Greek Life, but are valued members of our societies. Please sign this petition if you are in favor of reversing the administration's policy change and believe January admits and transfers should have the right to pledge a fraternity or sorority with their classmates. The policy: "IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT JANUARY ADMITS: Keeping in line with our policy for other new students, pledging for new students entering in January (including transfers) cannot take place during their first semester. Yes, this is a change that now makes our policy consistent for all first-year students. Yes, because we have spring pledging it means that new Jans and Transfers will need to wait until their sophomore year (or third semester) to pledge. I hope you'll all agree that getting these students acclimated to their new curriculum and community is most important, and we should give them the appropriate amount of time to do that."

Currently ALL Texans pay a price to clean up litter from our parks and waterways, but only some Texans litter. NOT fair! If Texas placed a 5 cent DEPOSIT on the purchase of each beverage container (plastic bottle, aluminum can, or glass bottle) then we would dramatically reduce the number of empty containers littering Texas’ rivers and land. Then if a purchaser pitched their beverage container on the ground (instead of taking it in to redeem the 5 cent deposit) someone else can pick it up and claim that money! Learn more at www.TexasBottleBill.com.

The quality of education at Bowling Green State University is at risk because the university administration has abruptly and arbitrarily decided to terminate the contracts of 100 full-time faculty. On January 18, 2013 the president of Bowling Green State University, Mary Ellen Mazey, announced that the administration would be eliminating 100 hard-working and dedicated non-tenure track faculty at the end of spring semester 2013. The decision was not based on the quality of the instructors’ teaching, and no plan was offered to redress the inevitable imbalance of faculty-to-student ratio. In his remarks to the Faculty Senate January 15th, BGSU Provost Rodney Rogers spoke approvingly of allowing class sizes to balloon from a normal enrollment of 30 students to 50 or more students. In September 2012, President Mary Ellen Mazey announced her intent to increase BGSU’s enrollment by 6,000 students by the year 2020. In spite of these plans for growth in enrollment, BGSU’s top administrators aim to significantly reduce the number of faculty. Clearly, the administration’s short-sighted and mismanaged plan portends a troubling future for BGSU students: bigger classes, fewer faculty, and lower educational quality. The BGSU administration has cited the need to save money in the face of impending cuts to state funding. In Ohio’s new formula for public universities, BGSU’s share of state money will fall, and the administration claims that it must take steps to keep costs low. Yet its plan to save money in the short term hurts BGSU in the long term—course completion and graduation will not improve with fewer faculty and increasing the number of students in classes. The value of a BGSU degree should not be compromised by careless plans that put short-term monetary savings ahead of long-term quality education. Plain and simple: Decreasing students’ interactions with faculty diminishes students’ educational experience. By signing this petition you are sending a clear and direct message to Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey, Dr. Rodney Rogers, and Mr. William J. Primrose III that you REJECT their plan. Supporters of BGSU call on the administration to disavow its intent to cut the number of faculty and increase class sizes. Please sign the petition to protect the future of quality education at Bowling Green State University.

Fracking is dangerous for the environment and people living near where it is done.