Idaho cannot afford to wait another year to reverse the severe deterioration of its educational and human services infrastructure. This initiative may provide our legislators with the incentive to address this crisis in the 2012 session! The petition needs 47,432 signatures before April 30, 2012. Once we permit the mass termination of personnel and other degradation of our institutions, we impose a loss of educational opportunity upon a generation of our children and we plunge our institutions into an abyss from which they will not emerge for many years. Stop Unequal Taxation in Idaho, LLC, now announces the launching of a drive to form an Idaho Citizens Coalition to promote a Ballot Initiative for the November 2012 election. This Ballot Initiative will: -Eliminate inappropriate and unjustifiable exemptions from the Sales Tax -Reduce the Sales Tax rate from 6% to 5% -Produce a net revenue increase of approximately $371 Million Get Informed and Take Action! 47,432 signatures are needed by April 30, 2012 Go to http://www.sutinidaho.org/ for more information!

People are dying because our laws allow someone to abuse drugs/ alcohol without an mandatory rehab intervention. I want to see a law passed that will require a person who has 3 documented hospital/ jail visits related to alcohol and or drug abuse to complete a 28 day rehab program. My Mother just passed away after being in ICU 5 times, where alcohol abuse was brought to their attention, since Oct 2011, I was told by a case manager that my Mom had the right to drink her self to death! Well she did just that, and I pleaded and pleaded with these hospitals to help her but each time she was able to walk out. Doctors said that she was of sound mind and was able to make her own decisions. I agree, but you cant be of sound mind drinking your self to death. She died 3/13/2012.

The living wage in the Twin cities metro was set at 10/hr in the mid 1990's. today almost 20 years later with a housing boom of over 400% and gas prices increase of 0ver 400% and the food costs and fun costs increase of over 400% we need to increase the living wage for asmall companies to 15/hr and large such as General mills, best buy, 3M, wells fargo, Mcdonalds, Burgerking, etc. to 20/hr. These low wage employees dont get health benefits or retirment incomes as of today so we eithetr need to be those benefits back in or pay hire wages. The chinese companies are buying america due to lack of income coming in, due to lack of pay out to middle america and low america. We need to increase wages for middle and low america to save the country.

We want WTAM Radio in Cleveland, Ohio to remove the Rush Limbaugh show from their programming for his outrageous attack on a woman who wanted to testify before Congress about the importance of insurance coverage for contraceptives.

Mr. Thom Duncan, of Huntington North High School, was fired by the Huntington County School Board on March 12, 2012. He was accused of "bullying" a student. This act of "bullying" involved throwing a cut tennis ball at a student because they were sleeping in class. This was Mr. Duncan's first offense and instead of an incident report being filed he was suspended in the month of December 2011 and then had his contract terminated in March. This petition is for those who are in favor of restoring Mr. Thom Duncan's reputation so that he may either continue his employment at HNHS or seek it elsewhere without false allegations of "bullying".

THIS PITION IS TO WAKE UP OUR GOVERMENT THAT KEEPS IGNORING THE FAMILIES DESPERETLY TRYING TO STAYING IN THEY'RE HOMES DUE TO THE FACT THAT OUR GOVERNMENT LET THESE MORTGAGE COMPANIES AND BANKS GET AWAY WITH MURDER DUE TO NOT HAVING US EDUCATED....THEY NEED TO IGNORE THE BANKS AND HELP THE HOMEOWNER OR OUR ECONOMY WHICH IS ALREADY FALLING APRT BECOME WORSE! BANKS HAVE TO MODIFY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WRONG!!!!!

If AB2299 passes, then our government officials, elected and non-elected, including law enforcement officers, DMV employees, etc., will be able to hide their property ownership which is now a matter of public record. Why you ask? To quote a Press Democrat editorial, "Ostensibly, it's to protect them from the threat of personal harm from someone who could otherwise discover where they live. But when asked by the California Newspaper Publishers Association about the prevalence of this kind of hostility, the legislator's staff could not come up with a single example of a public safety officer having been harmed or threatened by way of information obtained in this fashion. We could find no record of any public official being threatened in this way, either." If this passes, then these government officials will be able to hide any ill gotten gains. Current public record allows an individual or a reporter to investigate possible corruption of "bought" elected officials, law enforcement officers, etc. We need to stop this from happening. With the current state of affairs in this country and state, we need more transparency not less. Please tell your representatives to stop this bill cold!

The Koch Brothers and others are trying to block home care and child care workers in Connecticut from democratically voting to form a union and to collectively bargain.

As of last year (2011) the government has taken away the adoption credit. Adoption whether through an agency or private attorneys is very expensive. It is such a shame that people like my husband and I who already have one adoptive child and have so much love to give to another child may not be able to ever adopt another baby because of the costs. Without bringing back the adoption credit many couples like us may never be able to adopt another child.

Fairness finally for middle America. Women's rights, Headstart, Jobs. Think of other than the wealthy for a change.

Making certain Latinos have the right to become citizns in the US through the Dream Act Legislation...

Hawaii can use its farm lands to grow our fuel. Processing the biomass into fuel will also create a lot of jobs for people. The best and quickest plant for creating and growing our biomass is hemp. Other states have started growing hemp for textiles and paper; however, Hawaii is vulnerable to high fuel prices because of the distance fuel must be transported. Growing our fuel is the answer. Biologically processed fuel is ecological as well.