Plastic straws are ruining our waterways and killing wildlife. We want this to change!

We, the signers of this petition, request a public hearing, to be held in an agreed-upon and appropriate accessible local location, to fully discuss the above concerns. This hearing shall include the Chesterfield County Administrator, County Planning Director, Transportation Department Director, EMS Director, County Supervisor for the Matoaca District, Commonwealth-elected officials and any other appropriate Officials. The County shall provide copies of development plans for pending and recently approved developments for review prior to this meeting. Also, copies of any road improvement plans proposed be provided for review, including those approved and in progress prior to this meeting. The above plans should be available for review at least 2 hours prior to the start of the meeting.

Seventy-five percent of my calls are recordings to sell something. I don't know of one person who has not been affected. Everyone is complaining, but is anything being done?

People in prison also have basic human rights. No one should be forced to go without heat in this freezing weather! It's up to us to make sure Metropolitan Detention Center turns on the electricity and heat immediately. We can't be silent. Take action now.

Enslaved Africans during the European Slave Trade in Ghana, West Africa were brutally housed in the bowels of the castles; Castles was NOT their collective experience; for they languished in the dark, dirty and rodent infested "Dungeons" of the Castles, being raped, tortured and inhumanly treated, before being brutally shipped to the Americas and the Caribbean to be sold into slavery.

Five family members survived the Camp Fire having lost everything but the clothes they wore. My son Keith now lives in his own trailer on our property in Paradise CA. FEMA is bullying the town and county by threatening to withhold 1.7 billion dollars in disaster relief if they do not force all residents living in their own trailers on their own land to leave immediately. FEMA must stop this cruel action and ask residents to leave only for the time debris clean up is occurring on or near their property.

Lake Casitas is going dry due to the Casitas municipal water district being hamstrung by restrictions from diverting water from the Ventura river due to steelhead protections. There hasn't been a sighting of one since 2007. 12 years is long enough! Remove the restrictions and allow the lake to fill. The future of the Ojai valley depends on it.

There is no place in public life for a bigot, let alone a governor of a historically important commonwealth. We should all be deeply offended. UPDATE: Northam, taking the route that most cowards take, and after apologizing for the horrible yearbook image, now says the offensive photo on HIS yearbook page was NOT HIM??? Of course! All of the pictures on the two pages EXCEPT THAT ONE in the content of HIS Yearbook pages that were about him, Ralph Northam, AKA “COONMAN” !!! Sure.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) yearbook page featured racist imagery: blackface and KKK garb. He has already admitted to being one of the men featured. I am outraged that he didn't disclose this during the election and made it this far without us knowing. This clearly shows how the system is set up to protect racism and uphold white supremacy. The only possible action left at this moment is for him to resign immediately. That's the first step toward making amends.

Note, this is a revised petition with a necessarily expanded list of recipients. If you signed the first petition with only Clyde Roberson as a recipient, please sign this one again. The first petition is no longer valid because of the necessary changes to the recipient list. Sorry for the inconvenience. On January 4, 2019, Dave Potter was appointed to the Water Board by a 3-2 margin under very suspect circumstances. We demand a revote with all six mayors present and 4 votes majority required. If 4 votes cannot be obtained, then weighted voting shall determine the appointment. With the successful passage of Measure J in November 2018, the Water Management District has been tasked with conducting a feasibility study to consider acquiring Cal Am's assets, so that Monterey Peninsula residents can have a public agency deliver water and eliminate corporate profit and CPUC oversight that has led us to the highest water bills in the nation. Dave Potter has a decades-long political history on the Peninsula, which has tainted his reputation and caused a large block of voters to view him with abject distrust. Add that background to the suspect circumstances by which he was appointed to the seat: Del Rey Oaks City Manager met with its new mayor, Alison Kerr and whether intentional or not, delayed her arrival to the Monterey County Mayors Association by a mere 15 minutes. The other 5 mayors of the MPWRA had already voted by a 3-2 margin to seat Mr. Potter. The appearance of a "set-up", whether actual or not, is undeniable and will destroy the public trust in the Water Board's feasibility process. If Mr. Potter can win the appointment with all 6 mayor's present in a legitimate vote, the residents will accept their decision. If the decision stands as currently conducted, we will relentlessly protest his appointment. We request a do-over, to legitimize the process and restore the public faith.

Sex traffickers use Instagram accounts to advertise and pedal vulnerable children for sexual purposes. As a high school administrator, I have struggled to help a young person get an exploitative Instagram account deactivated. Upon receiving a report regarding a minor, Instagram should immediately suspend the account and conduct an investigation, even when the child is unable to provide Instagram with the required government-issued ID.

There has been a sharp increase in coverage and photos of trophy hunters in Africa and their slaughter of baby elephants, giraffes, water buffalo, and even several species of primates, like baboons. Most of the meat is thrown away and left to rot. Safari companies charge outrageous sums to their sadistic clients, and very little of the money goes back into the communities in these African nations. This must be more recognized by activists and animal rights sympathizers before the coming CITES conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the end of May 2019. Only by letting these two heads of state (to start with!) of our displeasure and our outrage at the increasing slaughter of wildlife in their nations can we hope to make a different kind of real progress, based on kindness to animals.