A gate once existed in the Dam West fence adjacent to The Shores to allow for safe walking access for members of the Shores neighborhood to Polton Elementary School. Children and families walking to the school must now walk along Parker Road or Yale Ave. We are calling on The Dam West to re-open the gate for safe walking access to the school. The Shores is willing to help with the financial costs.

Howie Carr's ethnic slurs again Elizabeth Warren, and his insinuation that Pres. Obama and Ms. Warren are the beneficiaries of unfair treatment from Harvard Law School based on their ethnicities.

House Speaker Chris Donovan's proposal to raise Connecticut's minimum wage is currently being held up by a few conservative Democrats in the Senate. The 50-cent hourly increase in pay would provide an extra $80 a month in the pockets of over 100,000 people. That's good for families and workers, and it's good for business. Chris Donovan gets it, but Joan Hartley does not. We're calling on Sen. Joan Hartley to support Speaker Donovan's proposal that would make life a little less stressful for thousands of families.

Harbor Heights in Sag Harbor Village plans to dramatically expand its gas station while side-stepping over a dozen zoning rules meant to protect the neighborhood from overdevelopment. Village boards can insist that all zoning rules are strictly followed, and therefore limit the threat of noise, traffic, and light on the residential neighborhood and historic village. We are urging all village boards to protect the rural character of our village, and apply all building size, setback, landscape, and other requirements as written in the code. Sign the petition!

The Equal Pay Act was passed by President Obama in 2009 and yet, data has shown that women only receive 60 to 80 cents compared to every dollar males earn. This issue not only affects gender, but race, color, religion, sex (gender) or national origin.We need to mobilize people - not only women, to step up and start making a difference to stop pay inequality. We are requesting signatures to send to the entire government (U.S House, Senate and President Obama) to mobilize the enforcement of this Act which will affect many Americans in the future.

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is strongly considering killing Metro Rail's planned phase II expansion into Loudoun County. As one of the fastest-growing counties in the country, Loudoun deserves, Loudoun needs, a transportation infrastructure that serves its residents and the businesses it hopes to attract. We're asking you to write the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and let them know: we want Metro Rail in Loudoun County!

If we spent a fraction of the money that people pony up to polititians to the causes they say they're going to take up, we would make a far greater difference in the our own lives than any polititian on either side of the spectrum. And if the polititians were truly interested in their constituencies instead of with power, they would take the monies they receive and invest back in the communities instead of costly, divisive and outright false and hateful ads. So this year, instead of supporting a candidate with cash, put the money towards the real solutions by investing in your local community efforts.

Due to economy there has been no jobs. there should be no increases in interest rates or loans period.

Often people receive information about a political candidate only through the candidate's or an opponent's advertising. And, often the facts of the message are either skewed or blatantly false. For Americans to be able to select their candidates based on credible information, this needs to change.

State of Florida has been imposing Mandatory Minimum Sentencing which result in young offenders getting 10, 20, 30 year prison sentences. Police officers "over charge"petty offenses to further facilatate "longer sentencing". If someone attemps to go to trial the state makes them pay!! by giving them the max when they lose...so most people just cop to unfair sentences tht are still 3 times what they hould be.

When the hard-working families who have had to come here the only way they could have a path to residency and citizenship as they did in 1986, it will benefit us all. When my friends and the others have 9 good Social Security numbers, they'll pay trillions into the Social Security fund. They are young and hard-working and would gladly pay into it if they were paid above the table with checks. Also, when they have residency, they'll be able to get drivers' licenses so car insurance which helps everyone on the road. They won't have to risk jail to go to work or to go to an English class or drive children to school. They cannot get legal residency on their own. They're depending on us to ask Congress as we did in 1986. I've spent 54 years teaching, translating for those whose languages I speak, being friends with immigrants, and they contribute so much. They deserve a chance to live without fear. Having a sub-culture of fear just keeps people from reporting crime they see and helps no one. I know children with A's in high school who can't go to college for lack of papers, so they are cutting grass. We'd receive taxes if they went to college and had better jobs and legal residency. The present system helps no one. It's really just prejudice. There are undocumented workers with blond hair and blue eyes, and they are never stopped and asked for papers. Only those with darker skin are stopped. We're a better country than this. They are only here because they'd go hungry if they didn't come, and they work hard and well and intelligently. They've earned the right to come out of shadows. We all sing in church that everyone is a child of God, but we treat them like they are less than human. Now is the time that everyone living in the US should be able to work and drive and go to college. Obama promised this in 2008. Now's the time to make it come true. I've worked with immigrants 54 years and seen what they've given to this country. Now we can help them and ourselves.

Public Officials claim to care about public education yet funding for public schools is the first to get cut when states face a budget crisis. It's easy to cut funding for Music and Art and PE when your child attends private school. It's easy to increase class size and fire librarians when your child attends private school. It's easy to "care" about public school when your child attends private school. Make public officials walk the walk, make public education mandatory for the children of Elected Public Officials.