There are too many out of state students admitted to VA colleges forcing the taxpayers here to subsidize other states red ink. VA colleges should be for Virginians with no more than 5% admitted from other states. Once that happens the taxpayers in VA will be more willing to better fund state institutions

as a former high school student, i have issues with the food distribution system where i frequently didn't eat because i didn't have a place to sit.

Support manditory recycling for businesses with more than 4 cubic yards of waste per week, and families with 5 units or more.

Instead of regulating soda sizes we should attack this obesity epidemic at the source. The truth is people do not become obese by just drinking a lot of soda but rather by making multiple poor choices in their health. Now what I'm proposing would only affect obese people. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 and above. So I propose a healthcare tax on anyone who is obese. An obese individual would pay an additional fee on their health care costs until they reduced their BMI. Furthermore any parent with children who are obese would have additional costs added as well. Obesity is not a right as an American. It should be treated as a privilege. Now no one should be obese but if an individual chooses to be obese they should accept the consequences of it. A tobacco smoker pays more for their healthcare costs because they choose to make poor health choices. Someone who chooses to eat super large sodas and fatty foods regularly should have the same conditions enacted on them.

I feel that our government has become absorbed by their own import in all things; education, taxes, health care, retirement ... . It is time for the people to remember that this government was formed "... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it ..."

I would like to challenge the media to investigate the businesses owned by the big PAC donators, ie Koch Brothers. If information is provided, we as consumers can boycott their businesses and hurt them in their pockets as they seem to have no problem messing with our policitics.

I Have been ovewhelmed by Republican Ads stating that the Obama administration has accomplished so little. Let's don't let them forget that immediately after Obama was elected MANY of them publicly said they would NOT WORK WITH Obama on ANY issue. How dare they complain!!

Hydro fracking is causing huge problems everywhere it is done. There are many groups trying to put a stop to it. sierra club is doing a good job of raising awareness. we need to do everything we can to make people aware of the dangers.

Impeach Rick Scott Governor of Florida. He has cut our university fund. He support deregulation of our water ways. He axed the Biggest money gaining project that Florida would have with the Express rail system between Orlando and Tampa, then to Miami. Florida should be number one states with solar Energy to be placed on office building in Florida etc. He has show little knwledge of what Florida needed!

As a former Target worker I was a victim of Target Corp.'s ethics every day. My coworkers and I are shocked and disgusted to find them on Ethisphere's annual "World's Most Ethical Companies" list. In 2011 United States federal government charged Target Corp. for violating our rights and an Administrative Law Judge found that the company used intimidation, scare tactics and threats in order to keep us (the workers) from joining a union in Valley Stream N.Y. After the vote, Target closed the store for a convenient "remodeling", displacing us, over 250 employees. Target is far from one of the world's most ethical companies, they're not even the most ethical company in Valley Stream N.Y.. While I was working there I was harassed every day by managers because I stood up for my rights and my coworkers rights. With the United States Government finding Target violated its workers civil rights, how does Ethisphere still include Target on their annual list of World's Top Ethical Companies? Sign the petition and tell Ethisphere to remove Target from their annual list!

I live in Kansas. 'Nuff said? Kochback, I mean Gov. Sam Brownback has implemented some of the most repressive laws related to women and the LGBT community in the nation. Doctors can withhold information if it might lead to the termination of a pregnancy. Pharmacists can refuse to fill prescriptions if it goes against their conscience. And last but not least, employers and landlords can now discriminate, openly, against members of the LGBT community. They can fire, and they can refuse to rent properties, and those discriminated against have no legal recourse.

Our family has suffered immeasurably because a greedy stepmother, who'd promised that she would always love us and consider us part of her family, coerced my unwell father into leaving his entire estate to her and her daughter. Stepmom will not file Dad's will, nor will she probate his estate. We have no money to contest the will or to force Stepmom to open the estate. Therefore: WHEN CHILDREN ARE LEFT OUT OF A BLOOD PARENT'S WILL, OUR GOVERNMENT MUST REQUIRE AN INVESTIGATION OF THAT WILL AND ITS BENEFICIARIES. Sadly, our story is all too common. And no state-by-state measure will work. This must be a federal law, as Stepmom, in our case, may have committed felonies. One law for all states is needed to stop turning families, who are already suffering the loss of a blood parent, into real-life CINDERELLAS.