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.

Canada has a law ...The "Truth in Broadcasting Law"..that would not allow FOX NETWORK to have a chanel there because of the LIES that they are KNOWN to tell...Please google or bing it to see the law for yourself.....I think this network has done nothing but lie on this President and any other person the REBUBLICIAN party deems they need to..they say "Fair and Balanced"...yet we know they are not....They have done more harm to this country in racial politics than we have seen since reconstruction..I feel it is time to do as Canada and PROTECT ourselves..from this divide by allowing ONLY TRUTHS to be told by the media....and this LAW will do that.

in lieu of all the violence that these dogs have spread, owners should be required to place muzzles on their dogs when walking out on the street or any public place with their dogs. These dogs have harmed, maimed and killed people without provacation.

Yes, I am disabled and an advocate in MI. It has been stated to me that it is against the law to have a Handicapped for Resident Reserved sign with a permit/name on it. We have just a "reserved" sign with permit number but does not protect you. All disabled persons should be protected by the police. Apt. building states "handicapped" signs are ugly and does not ad value to their rental properties.

Unlike Medicaid and private insurance, Medicare does not cover Continuous Glucose Monitors. These would prevent awful , sometimes deadly incidents for those diabetics who do not know their sugar is low.

The elderly, college students and other young adults, and the poor (those for whom addresses change suddenly or frequently) would be adversely affected by this law. I conduct a singalong at a local retirement center and discovered that one of my faithful participants had not voted because she THOUGHT she needed a voter ID card since her address had recently changed.

I believe there is STRONG evidence that deliberate ATTEMPETED and ACTUAL voter 'suppression' occurs in several States, Counties and cities across America. There are also reports that Karl Rove attempted to 'hack' Ohio voting machines. A FEDERAL review/investigation ("Special Prosecutor") should be assigned to look into these ''issues'' and recommend FEDERAL VOTING STNDARDS or LAWS to correct/protect our FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE, and to bring to justice those who DID - or ATTEMPTED to - manipulate voting in 2012.

GOP House and Senate members who signed Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge must show all Americans that they care more about this country than they do about a 20-year-old pledge, by revoking their oath to Grover Norquist.