Many buffets and restaurants dump mountains of uneaten food into dumpsters at the end of business. That food should be delivered to the homeless. The food delivery service would create new jobs. The food that would be distributed at homeless shelters would eliminate the need for the government to supply food to them. The restaurants would receive a government stipend for their participation.

Manoomin (natural wild rice) is a vital cultural, spiritual, environmental, and economic resource for the Anishinaabe people in northeastern and north-central Minnesota. As an environmental resource, healthy stands of manoomin are the barometer of a healthy ecosystem. Macroinvertebrates, vegetation, flora, fish, waterfowl, wetlands and wildlife are all interconnected in the ecosystem of manoomin. Legislation seeks to weaken the Wild Rice/Sulfate Water Quality Standard for the benefit of foreign extractive copper resource colonies to open nonferrous mines in northern Minnesota. Additional legislation weakens the permitting process and diminishes the authority of regulatory agencies at the cost of the manoomin and the environment. Lawmakers need to consider that their actions place Minnesota's State Grain (Wild Rice) at great risk - not only for the current generation, but for the generations that follow.

Early start times jeopardize academic achievement, mental health and the safety of teens. The impact falls hardest on struggling students. We urge SPS to maintain the benefits to health and learning that have been gained by middle and high school students having later starts as of 2017, and not make changes to bell times that would have any secondary student start school prior to 8:30 am.

Everytime a crazy with a gun goes out and kills we hear the same backgrond, "He was a loner and didn't have any friends". I'm proposing an addition to the firearms application that requires the signatures of two adults that belive you can be trusted with a gun. Responsible hunters shouldn't have a problem. Lone gunmen might find it more difficult to get a legal gun.

Due to this recession, so many laid off workers are using their retirement savings to buy or start their own businessess. But there is no exception in the tax code for this. You can roll the funds over to the Stock Market (big business), but not your own business. Not only will the funds taken out be subject to income tax, but an additional 10% penalty as well. This needs to be changed NOW!

The government allows truckers to work 70 hours a week with very little down time in between. Companies expand on this by stretching them as far as the law will allow! Somtimes to the detriment of everyone. If a driver has been on the road 14 hours and then back on again in 8 hours, where is family time? Where is wind down time? Where is dinner time? Most companies see their drivers as part of that truck, not a human. Well my husband is human. Going down the road I have witnessed many small cars whip in front of a tractor trailer only to not give that driver a thought of what could happen if he had a bad night or didn't sleep well because his wife is disabled and needed his help. We need this 70 hour law lowered for the safety of all!! Please, I have seen this and too many accidents, and marriages break up over this 70 hour work week to not bring this to someones attention.

We cannot continue to subsidize Oil Companies. We provide billions in direct funds and tax breaks to companis like Exxon, whose past quarter had net income of 9.45 billion, and the quarter before 9.40 billion. Daily I see their advertisements that flood the media, of how they are good, or do good to our economy and our citizens, yet nothing could be further from the truth!

To make it equal or of greater cost than the same item made in the U.S.A. Use the tariff money to subsidize the business that made that make the same items here in the U.S. This will help level the trade deficit and keep more things Made In America

John Boehner, House of Speaker have Voilated under the consitution and Blocking President's Proposal which was not allowed to do that, all Proposal must go through in Congress. House of Speaker job is to run the congress, not Blocking or Voilating the Consitution Progress. John Boehner is about to destory our America... We Need to Impreach John Boehner, House of SPeaker for Good. WE need your signature to get Senate attention...

By signing this petition, you will help protect thousands of men and women from discrimination in the workplace.

The Dunkin' Donuts Company seems to have very little environmental awareness. They solely use disposable plastic and styrofoam utensils and containers, and some facilities do not even house a recycling bin! We urge them to stop creating thousands of pounds of waste each day, and instead, resort to reusable, recyclable and biodegradable methods and manufacturing.

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