I found a lost dog at my door. Not one person looked for this dog. It was a little PUG. I brought the dog to the Vet. because I noticed something wrong with its eye and back legs. The vet. scanned the dog and it had a chip. I brought the dog back to the owner and explained that if they did not want the dog to call me. I found out that the owners had a total of 3 dogs. One of which the dog control officer picked up and was very malnurished. The dog I found was half its body weight. The owner let the PUG go again only to be killed by a neighbors horse 3days after the dog was returned to them. There is still a dog in that house not being properly cared for and the dog control officer said he can't ask to see the dog. We need laws with heavy penalties for animal abuse. We have repeat offenders because they don't get a good sentence.

Recently, a bridge in Pickens County, dropped twelve inches and a section of that highway (Hwy 18) had to be closed. It's been estimated that it will take until Spring for the bridge to be replaced. All our bridges in South Carolina need to be inspected, repaired and/or replaced. Most are an accident waiting to happen.

For 20 years, Grover Norquist and his Political Action Committee "Americans for Tax Reform" have been forcing our elected officials to sign a 'no new taxes pledge'. This man is almost single-handedly responsible for the tax deadlock in Congress, a deadlock that needs to be broken so that our economy doesn't implode. It's time to tell Mr. Norquist what the public thinks - that the country's economic well-being comes first, and that our elected officials are to answer to their constituents, NOT a self-appointed "Tax Czar" with no elected position and no writ charter of authority from the duly-franchised electorate of this country.

US citizens face by 12/31/20012 “The Fiscal Cliff.” As such, we must begin to look inward in saving monies, reduce cost and improve tax revenue waist. With that said, we can begin with a double independent bipartisan audit on tax revenues received & spent across (ALL) government agencies, Congress, Defense, Social Security, IRS, Medicare, National Defense, Education, and so on. A double audit would be preformed to identify government fiscal waist. This would establish a fiscal baseline to move forward & begin fiscal adjustments needed to reduce government debt and improve tax revenue expenditures for "WE THE PEOPLE" of the Unites States of America.

Restoring our election processes to the voting age citizens. We the People are tired of having big spenders swamp the airwaves with negative nonsense.

Increase taxes on $250,000 and above! Just like the POTUS campaigned on! Elections have consequences!

Ninety percent of my mail goes straight into the garbage can. We all get multiple ads for products we don't want and endless solicitations from charities. Also, a friend whose wife died 18 years ago still gets hundreds of solicitations for her, despite written requests to remove her name. We need a law to stop this. It would save many trees and decrease the landfills on our planet. We could also be more sure the money we donate to charities is not thrown away.

An increasing number of Evanston homeowners currently offer rooms of their homes, or their entire homes, for rent on the internet on a short term basis, nights and weekends. The City of Evanston regulations currently prohibit homeowners in residential neighborhoods (e.g., R1 zoned districts) from renting out rooms of one’s home to transient guests. The City does not enforce this law. For at least 5 months now, a group of concerned neighbors in Evanston have been asking the City to enforce its laws. The City has refused to do so. Instead, the City responded by announcing its intention to craft legislation that would allow residents to rent out rooms to people for as little as 24 hours. We are law-abiding, tax-paying, voting citizens of Evanston who are opposed to these illegal rooming houses that are spreading in our town through the use of advertisements on craigslist, airbnb.com, and many other websites that promote overnight room rentals to the world at large. The rooming houses are affecting our property values and they threaten our security and the safety of Evanston children. NO ONE WHO RENTS OUT ROOMS IN THEIR HOME BY THE NIGHT CAN ADEQUATELY SCREEN TENANTS FOUND ON THE INTERNET FOR CHILD PREDATORS OR CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDS. Please sign this petition to show our elected politicians that we are opposed to illegal rooming houses that will change the character of our neighborhoods forever.

Presented with Mayor Ford’s removal from office the most cost effective yet constitutionally sound decision would be for Council to appoint Deputy Mayor Holyday as interim Mayor of Toronto for remainder of the electoral term. He is very experienced and able to follow through on the mayors mandate.

Beltway insiders have the most successful social safety net programs in their cross-hairs. Despite the fact that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid keep millions out of poverty these same insiders want to destroy them for the sake of compromise and greed. They are trying to drum up public fear by inventing a "fiscal cliff" narrative and now demand drastic cuts. Seniors, the disabled, soon to retire baby-boomers and even the young would experience unnecessary financial hardship while millionaires and billionaires might pay a few more pennies on the dollar. We need strong progressives leaders like Senator Gillibrand to draw a line in the sand: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are off the table.

This is a petition to ask our legislators to seriously consider allowing Montessori style education to become the norm, rather than a "charter" phenomenon. I have personally seen the benefits of the Montessori system work - the "classroom" is centered around the needs and learning styles of the children, rather than children having to adapt their learning styles to the "test-driven" education system we currently have in place.

I have been personally affected since I moved to Manassas Park, Virginia. The bus that I need toi get home stops running at 7:39. That is the OmniLink bus MPK-B. I take the OmniRide commuter bust from West Falls Church Metro and I am often delayed by the Orange Line Metro an/or the traffic on 66 West. This gets me to Manassas too late to catch the last bus to go to Manassas Park. I do not always have money to catch a cab home. I have been stranded in Manasas more than once.