The people in Memphis voted to consolidate the school system. Several municipalities now want to separate with aid from their republican legislators in Nashville.

The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument has been proposed by a group of business, environmental, non-profit, and government organizations to preserve and protect the natural beauty of Southern New Mexico as well as historic sites including Mogollon Jornado, ancestral Puebloan, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo - indigenous camps, petroglyphs, historic ranches and homesites, Butterfield Overland Mail route, World War II test and training bomb targets, and even places where Apollo astronauts trained. These areas in the Organ Mountains, Robledo Mountains, Sierra de las Uvas, and the Potrillo Volcanic Complex are threatened by development, mining, and potential abuses of the land. Previous attempts to protect these lands required an Act of Congress. Designating them a National Monument, under the Antiquities Act of 1904, requires only an Executive Order by the President. Protecting these special lands should be high on our list of things to do.

I want to create a ballot initiative that guarantees eligible California residents a free UC or CSU education. I read the total cost of educating all CA children would cost only 3 billion a year.

Credit unions are exempt from paying into the state unemployment insurance fund. This may have made sense in the past when credit unions were small financial cooperatives. However, Credit Unions have expanded their business model and now operate as quasi banks offering a full range of financial services from credit cards to retirement planning. Employees of Credit Unions should therefore enjoy the same social safety net as those persons employed by for profit financial institutions.

Since people are given the right to opt of of a union through the right to work legislation they should also have the right to be represented by an organization if it be their desire! The rights of an individual should not be dependent upon a cooperation favoring their decision.

This a life and death issue for US citizens. Both the west and east coasts are at risk for a major earthquake. Major solar storms that can shut entire electrical grids are predicted for the next year and a half. Evacuation plans have not been updated to include population growth and on-site storage of radioactive waste.

How can you pay your College Loans if there is no good Jobs

Health care in the United States is sorely lacking. Politicians have claimed medical cannabis has no medical value despite growing evidence and scientific studies documenting otherwise. Medical cannabis DOES have medical value—hundreds of physicians are converging upon Tucson, AZ, in April of 2012 to get continuing education credits sanctioned by the American Medical Association. Science is progressing. It is time for politicians and our government to be accountable to their voters' health and health care decisions. Accountability 4:2012

Health insurance companies reached a settlement in 2009 with NYS requiring them to set up a data base to determine how much to reimburse for those policies that provided for out-of-network service. The insurance industry spent $90 million to create this data base. But since they were not obligated to use it, they are now basing their reimbursement amounts on Medicare rates, which are much lower.

I am a union electrician who is still facing heavy unemployment rates. I live in NYC and 405 which is 350 after taking out federal tax is not an exceptable amount to even pay for the roof over your head. I am pushing for a higher unemployment rate of cash for the most expensive city too live in.

A third option or choice on all ballots, for those that can't bring themselves to vote for either of the two major parties and still have a vote and be counted. Make election day a National Holliday so people can get to the booths to vote and not miss work or get to the polls late because of work.

6 CA Democratic state senators killed the CA Universal Healthcare Act - SB 810 (Leno). SB 810 provides Single Payer healthcare for 7 million uninsured Californians, while saving CA families $34 billion annually. Sen. Rod Wright is the only 1 of the SELLOUT 6 running for re-election against SB 810 supporter Paul Butterfield (Dem). Teach ConservaDems a lesson by visiting http://butterfield4senate.com/