The practice of calculating all gasoline prices using the higher priced brent crude oil price, when most of the country's refinerys are using WTI crude oil and other lower cost crude oils, should be stopped.

We must work together and our state Legislators need to help US fix or rewrite the law to end/stop modern-day slavery. The issue drew the attention of President Obama at former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday (Sept. 25), where Obama said the estimated 20 million victims of human trafficking would become a major focus of his Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. "Like that Good Samaritan on the road to Jericho, we can't just pass by, indifferent," Obama said. "We've got to be moved by compassion. We've got to bind up the wounds."

Our State spends more on prisons than on the University system. The result: bloated costs for law enforcement, jails, prisons, and Courts -- accompanied by a reduction in our ability to provide college-level education and its benefits to individual students and our State's economy. Students are faced with foregoing education or incurring enormous personal debt -- and we all lose. California's economic engine depends on a highly educated workforce. It is time to re-examine our priorities when the cost of a year in prison to society is many times greater than the cost of a year in college.

Everyone's health will be affected.

In the past few years our nation and the great state of Wisconsin has been hurting with the lack of jobs and the national and state deficit. I propose, in order to create a multitude of jobs and a way to gain a national/ state surplus of money instead of a deficit we legalize the use of marijuana and control it in the same manner as alcohol and tobacco. Just recently over 300 economists stated that the legalization and taxation on marijuana could save the U.S. $13.7 billion a year. Imagine how that would help our nation and our state grow! I myself personally do not use or condone the use of marijuana, but with that said the use or consumption of marijuana whether someone wants to believe it or not, the acts are there and are presentable. Marihuana does indeed have beneficial uses. Just as alcohol or tobacco it to does have some negative draw backs, but statistically shown by many doctors and scientists that its use isn't anymore harmful to your body than that of consuming a can of soda or a drinking a glass scotch or even taking over the counter aspirin. The research and answers are out there to the benefits of marijuana. The question is, are you as a human being able to put aside your personal convictions or even religious beliefs on this subject matter, then look at those facts and make a well informed decision whether its use and legalization would benefit our state and our nation? Millions of people including myself think so. Please consider it. Thank you!

Companies everywhere are taking policies out on their employees and then cashing in (as if they need even MORE money) without so much as a donation to the funeral or family. Most companies (Winn Dixie, Walmart etc.) are doing it without consent! They must be exposed and stopped. This kind of policy should not be allowed.

We must work together and our state Legislators need to help US fix or rewrite the law to end/stop modern-day slavery. The issue drew the attention of President Obama at former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday (Sept. 25), where Obama said the estimated 20 million victims of human trafficking would become a major focus of his Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. "Like that Good Samaritan on the road to Jericho, we can't just pass by, indifferent," Obama said. "We've got to be moved by compassion. We've got to bind up the wounds."

We must work together and our state Legislators need to help US fix or rewrite the law to end/stop modern-day slavery. The issue drew the attention of President Obama at former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday (Sept. 25), where Obama said the estimated 20 million victims of human trafficking would become a major focus of his Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. "Like that Good Samaritan on the road to Jericho, we can't just pass by, indifferent," Obama said. "We've got to be moved by compassion. We've got to bind up the wounds."

I believe most Americans prefer to be informed about whether the products we buy are produced using child labor or labor practices that are significantly or severely harmful to the well-being of those who produce them. Foxconn (who manufactures for Apple and others) was recently in the news giving us one example of people suffering needlessly so that profits are up and prices are down. The deadly fire in Bangladesh is another example. Most of us would rather pay a bit more or choose a product that is made with respect to human dignity and well-being. But how do we know? Labeling Tuna as dolphin safe informed consumers and gave us a choice that changed the industry for the better by providing an incentive to use better practices. It became a balance to the incentives based solely on short term economic gain. Adopting a similar policy regarding labor practices for imported (and I think also domestic) products will give us an informed choice to consider and provide the imperative incentives for the sake of the well-being of that workforce (and hence humanity). It's time to make the world a better place. This is an important step that we need to take now to make that happen. Do it! You know it's the right thing.

People in California just passed proposition 30, and save the tution hike for all young children in school, I am so proud of our people, I wishour Congress learn from our State.

Our National Parks should serve as a respite where visitors can feel safe and secure while enjoying a natural experience. Increased levels of violence against park rangers and visitors, coupled with the destruction of National Park resources, dictates this short-sighted law be reviewed and overturned.

The top 5% in this country should pay their fair share of taxes a minimum of 40% in 1950 they paid approximately 90% . That's what Got the economy moving back then and that will get the economy moving now !