In January 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) that declared corporations to be equivalent to people and money equivalent to speech, opening the door to unlimited corporate spending in elections on an unprecedented scale. This decision was a disaster for American democracy. The purpose of this petition is to urge the Huntsville City Council to pass Bill Kling’s proposed resolution expressing Huntsville’s support of a constitutional amendment or other legal or judicial action that would effectively reverse the Supreme Court’s decision, thereby limiting corporate influence and restoring democracy in our elections. This has become a unifying issue among Americans. The Washington Post has reported that 80% of voters aware of the Citizens United ruling feel that unlimited corporate spending is having a powerful coercive impact on the outcome of elections. A 2012 poll by Pew Research Center (PRC) revealed that more than two out of three (67%) of those polled, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, felt that the ruling has had a significantly negative effect on the political process. The Supreme Court’s decision allows the free speech rights of a corporation to dilute and outweigh the free speech rights of ordinary citizens. Given the gridlock in Washington, it falls to we the people to push our local government to join the fight in overturning this decision.

Reforming the USPS to limit it's burden of junk mail delivery. Ninety percent of the mail I receive in my post box is fourth class junk.

At present, N.C. cemetery laws do not address the establishment of 'conservation (or natural) burial grounds', which combine much-needed land conservation with a 'green' cemetery. Polls show that many 'baby boomers', such as myself, would choose this method of burial if it were available to them. We would be grateful to the cemetery commission if current regulations were amended to make this possible for citizens of our state.

On Saturday, July 28, my good friend and hero Dustin Steele, along with 19 others, walked on the Hobet strip mine and shut it down in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. For standing up to defend his community, Dustin (of Matewan) was beaten by the state police and thrown in jail, with bail set at $25,000. Dustin has been released, but the 19 others, including more victims of police violence, remain in jail. Police brutality cannot be accepted as a response to nonviolent protests, and allowing unconstitutional bail for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience is not serving justice. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin is responsible for making sure justice is served in West Virginia. Let's make sure he knows that we expect him to intervene to stop this unacceptable injustice. "While the state police, in conjunction with the coal companies, tried to break our spirit and our resistance by using violence to quell the fire of our movement, this attempt has failed." —Dustin Steele

Are you tired of power outages? When a storm hits PEPCO immediately announces that it's "assessing" the situation and developing a "strategic" plan. This is nonsense. What it's not doing is putting adequate repair crews on the street. When PEPCO says it's getting crews from Texas or Ohio what it's really saying is that the food in your refrigerator will rot, the elderly and the young will suffer, community businesses will be closed, the police will be on traffic duty and the state and the county will lose tax money. PEPCO is also saying that it's not hiring people in Maryland, something which harms our economy. PEPCO says it has a five-year plan but the results in every storm are always the same. Meanwhile, bondholders and executives never miss a check -- and PEPCO wants higher rates! As recently outlined in The Washington Post by Eric Hansel, we can replace PEPCO with a public utility. This is not an easy or a short process, but it's very important to start now by amending the country charter. As a place to begin we want to have a public referendum on the subject. The Post article can be found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-take-over-for-pepco/2012/07/27/gJQApg0hEX_story.html

The current system waists money on adds that most sane people do not watch. I propose a new system which limits political adds to talk about its person and nothing about any others. They would be forced to talk about themselves and what they would do.

Rachel Maddow is one of the smartest, articulate and perceptive political pundits in the U.S. media today. We all know she is a progressive, but she also has a pristine reputation for honesty and seeking both sides of every issue. Rachel Maddow should be selected to moderate or help moderate at least one of the presidential debates in 2012.

We, as Americans, need to see the Certain Changes in the Law in Regards to Each Individual to Be Protected from the Unpredictable Actions of some Owners of the Guns. The Polices in the Gun Stores Supposed to be Much More Strict in Order to Do Not Give Possibility to Sell Guns to Every Person, but to the Employees of the Enforcing Agencies and the Police. Any Legal Resident Can Have the other specially designed unit (if his / her Attending Physician Do Give Permission to Have One) in order to protect himself / herself, but this unit should be designed such a way to do not allow the person to kill or wound the other person.

When prompted to update an app on my cell phone I am also prompted with the list of permissions that the app update mandates. Permissions that open my phone up to viruses, malicious intents, and possible manipulation of my contacts, etc.

I have been effected by this issue. I dont think its right to kill thousand of whales and dolphins.

Four poor people got together to form a business to serve the poor and planet. We want Google Ventures and IdeaLab to fund it.

One of New York State's major electric/gas utility companies, Central Hudson Gas & Electric, has been noted for its promotion of solar energy and allowing its utility customers to interconnect their solar energy systems to the utility grid and sell solar electricity back to the grid using net metering. However, a few weeks back Central Hudson suddenly reached its net metering limit cap of 12 MW and is no longer allowing any customers to interconnect their solar energy equipment to the grid via net metering. This shortsighted and unrealistically low cap of only 12 MW imposed by the PSC goes totally against Governer Cuomo's goals of doubling and quadrupling solar installations in the next 2 years in NY. Solar companies in the region have already been badly affected and will soon have to lay off staff and maybe even close down unless the limit is raised and net metering applications are again allowed to be processed. Neighboring states have far surpassed New York's solar installation figures which are comparatively very low due to these types of bureaucratic hurdles. We hope this petition will bring the problem to the attention of the NY state government so they can rectify the net metering cap and allow the proliferation of the solar sector in New York.