In Boston, residents can put all their recycling outside together, without separating it. Machines do the sorting for them. This makes people much more likely to recycle, and it saves time. New York should do the same!

In 1998 The State of Maryland awarded the limits in civil damages because court ordered criminal records were determined to not have been complied with, then used in a subsequent criminal prosecution. In year 2004, again the same Court Ordered Expunged Criminal Records was used to detain Leslie Vass without bail for one year, resulting in the lost of employment, custody of his 3 minor children and additional confinement.

H.R. 1113 would make it illegal for employers to discriminate against the chronically unemployed by making the unemployed a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The war on drugs is causing more harm than the drug itself. The US is building ore prisons than schools. The prisons are mostly privatized so they need the prisoners to make money. More people are killed by drunk drivers than people on drugs

Current state and local funding creates vast inequality and underfunding of K-12 education. Funding will be leveled and the same per capita, regardless of local property values, and significantly increased to reverse the precipitous decline in American public education. Equality in education and therefore opportunity will be greatly enhanced towards an educational system second to none in the world.

Canadian oil giant Enbridge has applied for fast-track approval of the first stage of a proposed project to bring tar sands oil from eastern Canada to Portland, using a 1950s oil pipeline that passes next to Sebago Lake. Sign our petition to the Canadian National Energy Board to protect Sebago Lake from dirty tar sands oil.

Most on-line purchases, and almost all TV commercial product orders, add on a charge in addition to shipping charges. These can be called "handling charges" or something similar, but they have nothing to do with the cost of getting the product shipped, and are arbitrarily applied based on how much the seller believes consumers will pay. We want a law that will restrict all shipped purchases to charging consumers only the true cost the seller pays to a shipping company for getting the product shipped.

There was never a public discussion nor a VOTE on the events that initiated the ALTERATION of our FARMLANDS to GMO crops. This ISLAND of KAUAI has been DUPED! OUR health, and the health of our CHILDREN have been DISCARDED as if we were just experimental TRASH! Of all places on EARTH! this is, and has been such a ....(can't find a strong enough word)....as if (and I'm not discounting the idea) that an ALIEN RACE has decided to change us by OUR FOOD! Or, to eliminate us altogether. Sounds pretty nutty doesn't it! KAUAI , at present , is still one of the most beautiful places on our planet....and because a group of obscenely rich industrialists want to "play GOD" with the UNPROVEN chemical genetics of our FOOD....they BOUGHT our local GOVERNMENT, and perhaps more. THIS IS NOT A HUMANE THING, and needs to be STOPPED and REVERSED! ( Why didn't they do this in THEIR BACKYARD) I bet their wives and children would think them CRAZY, and end up in divorce!

Recently, Democrats have accused Republicans of a conducting a war on women. Reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment via this petition would either make it clear that Republicans are supportive of women or are not. Action on this petition would be a win-win for women and would help women to decide which candidates they might wish to support in 2012 and future elections. If Republican candidates for office support the amendment, more women would realize that Republicans will act in their interests; if these same Republican candidates do not support the amendment, then women would understand that their interests would be protected more effectively by Democrats.

We are starting a store to help develop better values and social behavior in our Black and Latin youth, as well as poor White youth as well... Other ethnic groups welcomed as well...

THE USE OF LEAF BLOWERS BRINGS IN NOXIOUS FUMES AND A BARRAGE OF OTHER TOXINS INTO OUR HOMES, APTS, LAWNS, CHILDREN AND PETS, BIRDS, BABY BIRD NESTS, TREES AND THE GARDENS THEY ARE "CLEANING -UP" ALL END UP IN DANGEROUS TERRITORY - WE CAN USE SOMETHING INSTEAD TO CLEAN UP LEAVES - RAKES AND BROOMS - BRING BACK THE BROOM

Canadian television has a law against lying over the air. It's illegal to knowingly lie on news broadcasts in Canada. Canada’s Radio Act requires that “a licenser may not broadcast … any false or misleading news. Ask Congress to pass a law in the United States with simiiar provisions.