MY DAUGHTER LIVES ON STATEN ISLAND AND SHE SHE JUST HAD A BABY. I LIVE IN BROOKLYN AND I HAVE TO PAY A TOLL TO VISIT MY GRANDSON. WHY SHOULD A TAX PAYING NYC RESIDENT HAVE TO PAY A TOLL TO GO FROM ONE BOROUGH TO ANOTHER BOROUGH?

Cobell payments (Indian Trust Settlement) being sent to wrong addresses. See article in Indian County - http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/cobell-payments-being-sent-wrong-addresses-special-master-appointed-146498 I am one of thousands of American Indians affected by the BIA's handling of the Cobell distribution of checks. This lawsuit is the largest in US history and the mishandling of hundreds of millions in oil, gas and mineral payments to American Indians.

Additional tax relief for seniors over 70 with less than $50,000 net income, never had a child attend the local school district. For those that qualify, school tax would be completely abated forever.

To help gun stores in preventing sales to unstable or questionable individuals.

The most recent spate of horrific and deadly shootings and people opening fire in public places has spurned a nationwide discussion on how to address this issue which has largely been focused on gun control and has ignored a huge root cause: the devastating mental illness of the shooters. I have worked in the mental health field for more than a decade and personally have watched those I love struggle with serious chronic mental illness and all the social shrapnel involved including social stigma and underfunded programs to help treat and support the afflicted and those who love them. These programs are historically underfunded since Kennedy's well intentioned and poorly enacted de-institutionalization Community Mental Health policies to help close the barbaric state school and hospitals in favor of more community oriented treatment facilities in the 1960s and 1970s. Instead, the funding that was poured into the hospitals was re-routed away from mental healthcare before the community supports could be created and when they finally were, the funding was and continues to be scarce and is cut every year. The results have been devastating: high levels of mental illness in the court systems, jails, homeless on the street and at its most extreme opening fire in public places with little or no resources or recourse for the families and professionals working with these folks. Everyone knows someone with chronic mental illness. It is a common affliction that is historically demonized and misunderstood. Mental illness does not make BAD PEOPLE, it creates BAD BEHAVIORS which with good programs, interventions and supports can be managed. And until we as a society are ready to acknowledge and deal with this common affliction, we will continue to witness the horrors perpetuated by the bad behaviors caused by mental illness.

The American public has suffered enough under this "Hatfield & McCoy" Congress. Our Congressmen have their own agenda, which seems to ignore what the people want and need. The American people should be the ones to vote on our nation's spending cuts. It's our money. List the budgeted items and let us determine which ones to cut spending.

We are all shocked about the amount of money and time spent by politicians campaigning. This last November, we were sick of the constant TV ads, Robo-Calls and shocked at the total amount of money spent of campaigning. If a law is passed to reduce the amount of time that can be spent on a campaign to 90 days, it will reduce the amount of time we have to view ads, receive unsolicited calls and hopefully reduce the amount of money spent on campaigns.

Have many friends who have suffered significant financial hardships from Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways, Breezy Point and the Jersey Shore.

Iowa based Fareway grocery chain has decided to cut employee hours so they will not have to provide health insurance in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. Fareway has chosen to not make the moral choice and provide health insurance for it's employees.

The petition aims for improved regulation of this so-called "low-income" insurance program administered by NY State under provisions of a 2001 piece of legislation, and to assure that modifications to that law provide the same benefits available to employer-based insurance policies. As a subscriber to "Healthy New York," I am alarmed at the increases on premiums and the denial of standard benefits like physical therapy and mental health services.

The nomination of Chuch Hagel for Secretary of Defence

Yes, this man is a homophobe and has been involved in campaigns, getting donations from anti gay lobyists, including Chick-fil-A, trying to "change" homosexuals into heterosexuals by indoctrination and brain washing. There are records of sermons, especially "In Search of a Standard-Christian Response to Homosexuality" that were delivered by this pastor and can be easily found on the internet. These spread very quickly via social media, especially TOWERLOAD. I will NOT sit back and watch another Obama inauguration with a benediction given by a known homophobe, as we did in 2008 with Rick Warren. I did not work work my behind off and did not donate thousands of dollars to have Obama re-elected to have this hater deliver the inaugural benediction....IT IS UNNACEPTABLE!!!