A new bill in Arizona would require women who wish to have their contraception covered by their health insurance plans to prove to their employers that they are taking it to treat medical conditions. It will also make it legal for an employer to fire a woman for using birth control for non medical reasons. This insult to women has already passed in the House. If passed, it is a giant step back. What is this, the Middle Ages? And are men going to have to prove that they have a medical need for Viagra? Why is this the focus of our elected officials? Isn't the unemployment rate still at more than 8 percent?

The Mamaroneck Board of Education is proposing to cut school bus services to children 6-12th at the French American School, German School, Holy Child, Iona Prep, Rye Country Day and Ursuline School.

Rush Limbaugh's reprehensible attack on Sandra Fluke, the college student who spoke to Congress about women's reproductive rights, calling her a slut and a prostitute and asking her to make a sex video, should be the end of his on-air career. Let's convince KTSM 690 to kick him off the air in El Paso.

Govenor Malloy's budget revisions call for lowering the level of home health care from visiting nurses to home health aids. Many home-bound psychiatric patients fragile elderly and disabled require daily visits by nurses. Tell Govenor Malloy to stop threatening the welfare of our most fragile citizens by replacing Nurses with poorly trained Home Health Aids.

THE NJ Division Fish & game makes money from selling license to kill wildlife. Almost all species of wildlife that try to live in NJ are subject to horrible deaths by gun wacko hunters. You cannot peacefully live in your home in NJ because these gun wackos are shooting into homes, almost killing our children. It is time to change the composion of the NJ Div fish & game which consists only of hunters and a few farmes. They all want to murder our wildlife

People that move into Delaware and have children are having a hard time collecting their child support if the non-custodial parent resides out of state. This should not be happening and this needs to change. For many custodial parents, they never receive their child support unless the other parent goes to retire and in many cases the children are grown and the support came much too late while the custodial parent struggled to raise their children alone.

Rush Limbaugh's verbal assault on Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke, calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute," was intended to do one thing: intimidate women who would dare to speak out for their reproductive freedom. But this time Limbaugh has gone too far, and it has sparked a nationwide backlash. At least 140 major advertisers have pulled their ads from the Limbaugh show, and some stations have canceled the show altogether. Rush is still on the air in Reading—but if enough local folks speak out together, that could change. We can't let up now. Let's sign the petition calling on WEEU 830 in Reading to take Limbaugh off the air for good.

Rush Limbaugh's reprehensible attack on Sandra Fluke, the college student who spoke to Congress about women's reproductive rights, calling her a slut and a prostitute and asking her to make a sex video, should be the end of his on-air career. Let's convince WFER to kick him off the air in Iron River, Michigan.

Then stand with "We Feed The Homeless Philly" and Craig Stroman and fight the proposed ban on feeding the homeless people of Philly who live on the streets!!

We believe Senate Bill 24 in its current form will harm more than help education in Connecticut. Because we all share the same goals for the children of Connecticut, we sign this petition to propose some changes to SB 24 in order to provide Connecticut's students with opportunities for success. What does Senate Bill 24 (S.B. 24) mean for parents and teachers of students in our district? This bill affects every Connecticut public school teacher: • Certification: The bill requires that teachers be ‘rated’ using standards that are not yet defined, and that these ratings be used to determine certification and a teacher’s ability to teach in any district in the state. • Evaluation procedures: The bill establishes four designators for the purposes of teacher evaluation. Because 22.5% of these teacher evaluations must be based on standardized test scores, “effective practice” will be determined by teachers’ ability to get students to improve on standardized tests (some of which have yet to be created). The Mathematics Policy Research study found that even after three years of data, the error rate is 26% (meaning that 1 in 4 teachers would be misidentified). • Salary: Requires new salary schedules aligned with new certification standards to be negotiated effective July 2014. School districts may be able to reduce costs by affecting evaluations to reduce teachers’ salaries. It threatens local control: • Section 11 of S.B. 24 threatens the existence of at least 41 small town school districts (including Bethany and Woodbridge. Starting in July 2015, the State Department of Education would begin reducing a small town’s Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula if the school district has fewer than 1,000 students and their per-student cost is at least 10% above the statewide average. Because the cost of maintaining the small comprehensive district means a slightly higher per-student cost, the state MUST reduce the amount of education aid going to that town. • The bill also removes the requirement of Superintendents to hold certification, which would allow people from outside education (such as the business community) to become school superintendents without any educational background or experience. (Section 13 allows the commissioner of education to waive the certification requirement for superintendent ANY PERSON whom he or she deems to be “exceptionally qualified,” without regard for educational experience).

Rush Limbaugh's reprehensible attack on Sandra Fluke, the college student who spoke to Congress about women's reproductive rights, calling her a slut and a prostitute and asking her to make a sex video, should be the end of his on-air career. Let's convince KNZZ to kick him off the air in Grand Junction. We have more community respect of our airways and citizens than to have to listen to his vulgar remarks.

The Tennessean, Mar. 19, 2012: "Doctors who perform abortions in Tennessee could see their names listed online, and women who undergo the procedures could be unintentionally identified under a bill pending in the state legislature." The Life Defense Act of 2012, or House Bill 3808, flies in the face of every health privacy law that exists. It has no purpose other than to intimidate and threaten. Doctors and patients could be exposed to serious threats or danger. This bill must be stopped. For more information, read the Tennessean article here: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120319/NEWS0201/303190022/TN-bill-mandates-publication-of-abortion-data