Getting a ground swell of supporters to write to their Representatives and Senators to support an increase of monies for Neuropathy Research at the NIH.

The City of Toledo has failed to "notify" its citizens, and historic district residents, as to their “rights” and responsibilities under Federal law. Additionally city officials have failed to involve any interested citizens as required, from the very early stages of planning for the reconstruction of Collingwood Avenue until the required Section 106 review is finally completed. Reference : http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/04/09/City-holds-to-plan-to-fell-72-trees-in-Old-West-End.html Reference : www.achp.gov/regs-rev04.pdf § 800.2 Participants in the Section 106 process. (d) The public. (1) Nature of involvement. The views of the public are essential to informed Federal decision making in the section 106 process. The agency official shall seek and consider the views of the public in a manner that reflects the nature and complexity of the undertaking and its effects on historic properties, the likely interest of the public in the effects on historic properties, confidentiality concerns of private individuals and businesses, and the relationship of the Federal involvement to the undertaking. (2) Providing notice and information. The agency official must, except where appropriate to protect confidentiality concerns of affected parties, provide the public with information about an undertaking and its effects on historic properties and seek public comment and input. Members of the public may also provide views on their own initiative for the agency official to consider in decision making.

Despite changes under the current administration, high-stakes testing remains a cornerstone of "accountability measures" for schools. This testing harms schools and has caused states to lower their standards so that their students perform better on the tests. Teachers are now so stressed from this unreasonable emphasis on testing, which takes away from college readiness and higher-order thinking, that they routinely dissuade others from entering this important field. We call on President Obama to end high-stakes testing in schools and develop alternative means of school improvement using those same resources. Please also sign the Whitehouse.gov petition: www.wh.gov/PtG

Disabled veterans who are non-custodial parents and provide little or no support for their children are entitled by law to receive disability benefit stipends for these children, just because their name is on the birth certificate, though they do not support the children. Also the custodial parent is not entitled to any of these funds if the veteran says there is a hardship. How can they be entitled to federal funds for children they are not supporting?

Banks have taken control of the appraisal business to the detriment of the homeowner and the appraiser. The proud independent profession of appraisal has been undermined by the banks- they are making money off of the independent appraiser. No more meritocracy. The homeowner is totally ignorant of this fact at closing.

The picture ID's now required by some states is social, racial and economically discriminating. If a State passes a Photo ID Voters Law they must IMMEDIATELY notify their citizens of this and provide an easy, effective, FREE way to obtains such a credential before this November election.

I think our Senators and Representatives are so dysfunctional that they don't deserve to have most of the benefits we pay for them to enjoy: pensions, budgets, health care. Let's take away their health care so they can begin to understand how things are outside the bubble they live in.

Teachers work tirelessly on behalf of students every day. Yet, in an attempt to promote his brand, Kenneth Cole posted a billboard in New York City that pits teachers against students, falsely claiming that teachers' rights conflict with those of the students they cherish and serve. We need to tell this company that teachers and students stand together-- that we ALL stand together in support of our schools and our future.

You are what you eat and people deserve to know where the food they are considering comes from, how it is made, and what it is made of, accurately and honestly in complete detail.

This petition is about repealing the GPO/WEP this law was pass in the 80s, in some states if you are a public worker, this law take away most of your Social Security, it also take away your spouses Social Security, some of us paid into Social Socurity for many years and into SERS pension, i feel this law is unfair and needs change.

Our Supreme Court has over the line of partisan idealology from defending our Constitution. We have only begun to see the buying power of Super PACs and billionaire sugar-daddies. We the People can overturn the Court by a constitutional amendment to clarify the founders' intentions that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

The President has wrongly said "We are looking forward and not backward." If that had always been the rule, no criminal could ever be punished because a crime is immediately in the past. We could not have punished the criminals at Nuremburg. The people who authorized and advised torture must be arrested and put through the court process. We executed Japanese officers for waterboarding in WWII, and our waterboarders should at least see the inside of a prison cell.