IF and when voters pass a no on spending, such as Portland Oregon light rail extension to the airport, and city government builds it anyway, and it looses revenue monthly; the officials involved should be held accountable financially,'personally' liable.

On every issue at hand President Obama has done so much to make things better for everyone. President Obama has signed bills and laws to enrich our lives. He believes that things should be fair, no one can say that his hard work and efforts are not for the betterment of fairness which leads to the betterment for the people of this country and other countries.

In this historic "down" economy, we have lost our business's, jobs, our homes, filed bankruptcy, etc., but most of all, our valued credit scores for 7-10 yrs. This keeps us from ever raising above the current issues. You can help us by changing the time period to 1-3 years. We need your help ASAP.

People should sign my legalizing marajuana petition because being bad for you is so old school. My husband had cancer and this was the only thing that helped his pain.. He choose it over the prescription pain medication which in my eyes was a good thing, thank you.

Teachers are required to continue education through out their working years. Teachers who retire after thirty years are however left to pay high student loan payments after retirement, although their retirement benefits are very low. Any teacher who serves children in the public school sector for thirty continouious years, student loans should be canceled.

Since we are stuck with "Citizens United" and unlimited corporate money in politics, we should at least get TRUTH in advertising. This will hold politicians accountable with what they say in ads. Right now, lies are allowed to be perpetrated with no penalty. This must stop!

If we wish to increase academic achievement, and reduce violence and addictions and make our communities and schools a positive place, we should implement a k-12 Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum in our schools. Learning and practicing the skills that allow us to control our emotions, form long-lasting relationships and have a positive attitude will build a different future for our country. See www.SEL4Mass.org.

about legalizing medical marijuana for those who have cancer crohns and other diseases also for people who suffer from chronic pain medinal marijuana would greatly help with their quality to live a higher quality of life and not in pain constantly I know i suffer chronic pain from 2 bike wrecks and an getting tired of not enjoying life and having to take medications that are way worse such as morphine, oxycontin and dursgesic and belive medical marijuans may help me get off these very additive drug. I have keep switching between these 3 mdicines because lose their pain contol. there are also alot of others suffering from these these diseases and chronic pain. I think we deseve a higher quality of life

limiting all campaign financing and advertisements to those individual people who are constituents of that district, at all levels of government. Money has corrupted the system. It's time to remove that corruptive influence from our election process. The Local Voter Only Act may be the first step to holding our officials accountable to their constituents. It may also be the very test case used to reverse the Citizen's United ruling. We've tried everything else, time to try something different. Fight the power of money in politics, vote for the Local Voter Only Act, and take back our government!

As citizens we should have some small measure of control over where our tax money goes. The more we direct these funds ourselves the less the politicians can squander.

In recent news, the violence in the Basque Country has gone long enough. ETA gave up armed violence, but no demands from Basque citizens have been met. The government in Madrid keeps on oppressing the Basque people. Please start helping out the Basque Country for peace; it's all been one-sided.

Changing name of Treme Community Center to Jerome Smith Treme Community Center