President Obama signed a defense spending bill that provides for indefinite military detention of anyone suspected of terrorism, including American citizens.

End corporate personhood

HB 5000 proposes to establish a commission to study the governance structure of state universities in Michigan. The bill will not change any law or the constitution but will simply gather information on various governance models from other states and what problems the current governance system may be fostering. Current governing boards for UM, MSU and WSU are elected but nominations occur at party conventions without primaries. Thus, boards are often filled by political favors and special interests. When combined with the autonomy granted by the State constitution this is a recipe for state universities to become unresponsive to the needs of the citizens of Michigan. A study of the problems and alternatives of the current governing model is called for.

We, the residents of Garrison Avenue, would appreciate an installation of a stop sign at the intersection of Garrison Avenue and Bond Street and a speed bump. We feel as though this action is crucial as we are concerned with the safety if our children and the motorists who consistently speed through the neighborhood.

Beecher Hills Elementary School is listed to be closed based on a demographic study initiated by APS school board. Beecher Hills is a historically high performing school, meeting AYP consecutively, and is due to meet AYP this year. BH is an authorized International Baccalaureate school, one of two in the South side of Atlanta. As an IB school, Beecher Hills follows a rigorous set of standards and practices that ensures that all including Administrative, Teachers, and Parents must meet.

There are more than150,000 Chinese students enrolled in American Universities. More than 80% are graduate students and most of them have their tuition and living expenses paid for by federal taxpayer funded grants. These students are learning economic and military technologies that they take back to China and set up businesses to compete with American businesses and to modernize their military. American professors have gone to China to lecture on anti-satellite weapons, cruise missile guidance systems, ballistic missile nose cone technology and many other military and dual use technologies. If we stop subsidizing these students through taxpayer funded grants we will create more of an incentive to recruit American graduate students in engineering and science.

This petition is in support of the City of Central Council's resolution to say "NO" to the proposed Baton Rouge Loop.

Last year alone, police made over 16,000 arrests of students in Florida Public Schools. The vast majority of these arrests were for minor misbehavior that could have been dealt with (at a much lower cost) by school officials. Students as young as 5 years old are being carted away in handcuffs, instead of being led to the principal or guidance counselor's office. Local school districts have failed to make significant changes to stop this trend, and it is time for the state legislature to act!

Terminator technology could be potentially used to modify seeds to not germinate a second time

Lenders/Servicers/Investors should be required to set upright the mortgages of homeowners who live in their home as their principal residence and whose mortgage is upside down (owe more than the value of the home). The homeowner would then not be allowed to remove any equity (as it accumulates) for a period of about 10 to 15 years.

2012 IS OUR YEAR TO DEFEAT THE RIGHT WING EVIL AND THIER WICKED INTOLERANCE THEY HAVE NO INTENTIONS OR A CLUE HOW TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY WHILE THEY SPIT OUT MEANINGLESS RHETORIC PRESIDENT OBAMA TALKS TO WORLD LEADERS AND CONTINUES TO IMPROVE OUR SITUATIONS THEY BLOCKED HIM BY DESIGN SO LETS THROW THEM OUT THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE 2012!

We all need to do are part in getting HR 1322 passed before we all lose our healthcare. This is not just a union problem, it affects all of us. We'll never get it back once they take it away!