Maine people across our state are struggling to make ends meet. The last thing we need is a toll hike that makes it harder to get to work or school. But now, if you live or work west of I-295, you will be asked to pay more just to drive to work each day. That’s right, the Maine Turnpike Authority is proposing to increase some tolls up to $7.00 round trip. It’s unfair to ask western Maine travelers to pay even more to go the same distance as those in southern Maine. We must stop this unfair toll hike. Sign on now to say no to the Western Maine Toll Hike!

Block all racist political tactics cited and implemented by Republican Party.

I live ina city that is the Capital of the United States where I have lived sor the last forty years, paid taxes, voted and taught at a local University (George washington U.). My one highly qualified representative in Gongress does not have a right to vote on major legislation (her vote was taken away recently, adding insult to injury!) Thjis is a scandal in our democracy. yet Congress has stedfastly refused to put the issue on the agenda. Thiuss must stop

Mackinac Island has endangered its own ferry services, first by threatening some with extinction, then charging them an exorbitant fee to transport Mackinac Island's residents and visitors to and from the island, in effect, charging admission to itself.

The employment at will law which covers most people in this country allows a company to fire an employee without cause. This is a corruption of the implied contract implicit in all jobs. Anybody care?

Short Sales / Foreclosures

American's have enough debt already. So why are the same debts being reported to an individual's credit report multiple times for a single amount owed to a single party? Because when you don't pay the collection agency sells your "debt" to another collection agency... and another, and another... But none of them ever deletes their reporting from a credit file when the account is closed. I am asking the credit rating bureau's and the federal trade commission to allow only one negative entry to an individual's credit report/rating per debt. If a collection agency sells the debt to another agency, without collecting any money from the "debtor", that the original "creditor", or collection agency, be required to remove their reporting from your credit to "make room" for the next collection agency to appear. There is too much disorganization on credit files and one incident should be ONE incident, not a hundred.

Alter federal taxes in two ways. First tax all income above $1 million at a flat rate, say 25% with graduated lower rates til then. Second, tax non-retirement protected wealth--financial holdings, real estate, etc. at say 1% a year, or perhaps less. Use the money to reduce the debt and to help local and State governments pay for the services they provide that are national in their benefits--e.g. education, crime reduction.

Cities use sewage treatment plants to deal with it, secondary effluent, solids removed is great algae food that's why at the North Lake Tahoe plant they've fully recycled wastewater to prevent algae blooms. But that's expensive, flocking chemicals are used to pull the fertilizer out of the water, so if you use algae instead they take longer but do a better job making a final treatment relatively cheap to fully recycle the water. Then, if you harvest that algae it's worth about 2-gallons of biodiesel per person on the system per day, so each of us on a treatment plant system is worth about 2-gallons of a biofuel per day. The USA burns through about 474-million gallons a day of all types of transportation fuels with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons per person per day to show the potential volume of purifying wastewater with algae. For cities they have to watch for toxins and such but if not there the pressed cakes of algae are proving to be good fertilizer for certain crops, early tests in Egypt show a huge 25% jump in wheat yields an example. So, this establishes from existing local infrastructure a high-volume source of a biofuel, recycles the water and produces a high-volume fertilizer. An example is Phoenix, AZ, and nearby superbowl Glendale each produce 10-million gallons a day, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume and doing that they consume CO2 and give off O2 to grow, then worth some 3-million gallons a day of biodiesel each city. However, the key issue is recycling the water, not making the fuel which is simple, recycling the water means keeping up with millions of gallons a day in volume, a more difficult task.

In Greece, by law there can be no voter polling within two weeks prior to an election. I think that is a good idea, and should be the law here also for all elections for office at all levels of government.

This petition addresses students`concerns re rental costs over the summer months. The petition also addresses students`concerns about not being allowed to terminate rental contracts with the ISS. The petition also addresses ISS policy as stated by the facilities desk that students are not allowed to move back into ISS residence if they have moved out of residence at an earlier date.

Mr. Romney and the republican party, if voted into office will once and for all put an end to the middle class of our country! They will advance the failed Bush economic sinkhole that wiped out most of the average person. We must support Pres. Obama, its our only hope!