This issue concerns the Sex Offender Rehab Center in Norfolk, Nebraska. The city officials decided that it was OKAY to remove the well tampered mentally ill patients to Lincoln or Kearney, where they are already overcrowded. The Rehab center is in sickly close proximity to the day care center. I am very irritated and disgusted by this, those people should be NOWHERE near a day care center, regardless of the feet of distance. I want these sick people out of here, especially the child molesters. They have a apartment complex right next door to the rehab center, which I (Alicia Steffen) personally stayed at, and the private manager does not allow children. Gee I can't imagine why?! Please sign this petition and get these jokers OUT of here! Or somewhere far far away!

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of school closings or charter school expansion, you should be very concerned by the recent trend of massive school closings and rapid expansion of charter schools. Many charter schools are expanding at a faster rate than can be sustained financially or academically. As a result, some charters have not been able to sustain the academic progress or operating stability they experienced in the past. Likewise, the wholesale closure of public schools has caused a shock in the system that extends beyond the classrooms. The social and economic costs outweigh any savings to be gained. These costs include disruption to students' learning; increased violence; displacement of teachers; reduction in salaries and costs of starting up new schools and disposing of public assets (which could be better spent in the classroom). It should be noted that rapid expansion of any type of school--whether charter, selective enrollment, magnet or neighborhood--without the financial capacity or sufficient population will result in failure. Chicago Public Schools, if left to its own devices, will continue to start new charter schools in communities with declining populations. As a result, Chicago Public Schools will continue to have more available seats than students. CPS has at one point claimed that there are 600,000 seats in the system, and only 400,000 students. CPS closed 50 schools in 2013 in an effort to correct the problem. Unfortunately, the data they used to make decisions were incomplete and inaccurate. CPS engaged a firm in 2013 to help them complete a master facilities planning process. The study--which only included half of CPS's school buildings-- wasn't scheduled to have been completed until June, 2014--more than a year after the schools were closed. In the interim, CPS proceeded to close schools without a master facilities plan in place. CPS opened 7 more charter schools in 2015, and is now poised to open or expand 20 more charter schools and open 12 new alternative high schools in 2016. This, in spite of the fact that there is excess capacity among traditional and charter schools. The consequences of closing schools are significant, and should not be taken lightly. Studies have shown that students typically lose 6 months' academic achievement as a result of transferring to different schools. Unfortunately, the receiving schools often perform at the same levels or worse than the schools that close. New schools take at least 5 years to fully develop. On top of that, a Catalyst Chicago study of Chicago charter school finances revealed that nearly 50% have had significant cash flow problems in recent years, including challenges funding state mandated contributions to teacher pension plans. This does not bode very well for long term sustainability for some charter schools. Unfortunately, the children who are most likely to be impacted are the ones who can least afford the disruptions.

Mental Illness How to provide medical institutions that are humane and locked housing for people who have been diagnosed as a threat to society.

Please spend more money and more effort to find a cure for autism, help those with it and educate "normals"not to bully those with it. My only child (grown) was born with Aspberger's Syndrome. It's an extremely lonely existence that babies are born with and for which there is no cure yet very little research is being done.

I was shocked to see all the Fiesta Bowl swag shoveled out to our legislators with no declarations made on either side,and the lack of any action by any ethics committee because no rules were broken by the same scoundrels who fail to make any rules. I was shocked Arizona(Kirk Adams,etc.)has become the hub for anonymous political money to be washed and disbursed to other states. There is no good reason to cloak political advocacy in secrecy or the level of monetary and "in kind" support. Democracy has no room for closed doors.

Ks Dept of Children & Families trying to force sperm donor for lesbien couple to pay child support.

Alec has broken laws such as filing non-profit certification yet backing candidates, introducing voter suppresson stunts. I ask our attorney General to investigate and all participants such as gov. kasich and all who are involved.

Sen. Marco Rubio has blocked disaster relief money for victims of Hurricane Sandy and I think it's a disgrace!

Constantly raising the age in the hope people will die prior to their eligibility to receive Social Security is wrong.

The past few years have seen a series of natural disasters that have devastated people's lives, with Hurricane Sandy's effects being the worst. Senator Kelly Ayotte voted to block federal relief for those who have suffered from the hurricane, a moral disaster that matches Sandy's natural destructiveness.

Volitility, or frequent up or down changes in stock prices, adversely affects, almost every individual who has money invested on Wall Street. This small tax on each transaction would both raise as much as three hundred and fifty billion dollars in new revenue AND make hedge fund managers and others think twice before they manipulate security deals.

End Corporate Entitlements