In response to the recent letter that bus service will be removed for the 2018-2019 school year due to the newly constructed walk zone to LPA: The members of the community feel this walk zone to be hazardous due to its proximity to a major highway 9B, the unsecured pond/wooded area that lines the walk zone, as well as the neglectful nature of allowing young children to walk unsupervised twice daily. The 2 mile analysis that was done is in fact invalid as the only pedestrian entry is at the front of the neighborhood (SJF Blvd/CR 210). The back gate on St Johns pkwy is in fact a restricted access gate which cannot be considered a pedestrian entry (children younger than 15 cannot have access to enter this gate). School bus service needs to be reinstated for the upcoming school year to ensure safety of our children.

THE ISSUE Our children are at risk. Our government does nothing. There are 99 operating nuclear power reactors in the United States today. Should an accident occur, anyone under age 40, especially children, would be threatened with cancer caused by radiation. But the risk to the general public can be almost completely eliminated by a simple pharmaceutical known as KI (potassium iodide). It’s a pill that gives virtually complete protection from the threat. In volume, the pills cost pennies. Chernobyl proved that KI works. The Soviets had some, and children who got it were protected. But children who couldn’t get the pills developed thyroid cancer at epidemic rates. In Poland, every child received KI at the time of Chernobyl, and all were protected. But in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, where no KI was on hand, at least 6000 children developed cancer due to the accident. Almost all were located more than 30 miles downwind. Nothing else had a similar effect. In fact, 10 years after the accident, medical researchers concluded that “except for thyroid cancer” no statistical increase in others cancers or radiation effects could be identified. In light of the need for childhood thyroid cancer protection, our government agreed to stockpile KI. But nuclear authorities decided to restrict stockpiling efforts to just 10 miles around our power plants, even though they knew that the danger extended well-beyond this distance. This restriction means that in an emergency most children would be unable to get the pills and thousands could develop cancer. All preventable. Radiation emergencies (from weapons or power plants) have happened in the past and are likely to happen again. Let's demand that enough KI be available to protect every child within 50-miles of our nuclear power plants. Let’s protect all of our children—not just some. HISTORY Following September 11, US authorities agreed to stockpile KI for individuals living near US nuclear facilities. Although the risk from low radiation levels (which lead to cancer) extended for at least 50 miles, the nuclear industry chose to focus their emergency response efforts only on high radiation levels—which kill before cancer has time to develop—and which are seldom found beyond ten-miles. The threat of cancer, and KI, is ignored. Instead, evacuation, sheltering, and food control are suggested protective measures. EVACUATION/SHELTERING Although any individual would be safer if they evacuate, the ability to empty cities and quickly move millions of people out of danger is far from certain. Further, millions of people all trying to leave at once would undoubtedly complicate other emergency response programs and introduce serious traffic risks. Worse, where evacuation is not feasible, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) suggests “sheltering.” In other words, staying indoors until the danger has passed. But having millions of people remain in contaminated areas, breathing radioactive air and drinking radioactive water (from irradiated reservoirs), would be a radiological disaster. For anyone remaining in an irradiated area without KI, the cancer risk would be very high. FOOD CONTROL To reduce the risk, the NRC recommends the destruction of all milk and food grown on lands that are within 50 miles of a radiation release. This is necessary to prevent highly radioactive products from reaching the public where they would be eaten and cause thyroid cancer. This has never been tried, and no one knows how many farmers will comply. But what is known is that if farms will be contaminated at 50 miles, so will the farmers—and everyone else at this distance. Only the wide availability of KI can effectively protect the millions of threatened people who live within the 50-mile range. CONCLUSION It is difficult to justify the government’s decision to protect some children and not others. It is difficult to understand how officials could consider food control and mass evacuations sufficient, and to deliberately choose to limit KI availability despite the known danger. It is hard to see how these actions serve America or what benefit they provide. There is no coherent reason why KI should not be added to the country’s emergency response plans. Our officials know this. In fact, following the Chernobyl accident, a former NRC Chairman stated that “Evacuation and potassium iodide would have significantly reduced the incidence of thyroid cancer.” He called the Soviet’s callous disregard for the health of their children a “failure of a society to take care of its people.” Surely America can do better than that. Sign the Petition to demand that our government stockpile an adequate supply of KI to protect ALL of our children. For additional information and documentation, go to www.KIFacts.com. This petition is sponsored by Anbex.com.

For all the millions of people who Richard Gerth greeted over the years at WDW Grand Floridian and made their stay that much nicer.

As someone who knows what it's like to see someone you care about get hurt by their partner, I would like to propose new laws for domestic violence in the state of Michigan. In the state of Nevada, they have a law that states, if you are CHARGED with domestic violence you must turn your weapon over to the state. This will give the victim a chance of hope that they can be safe and their predator won't come shoot them while awaiting trial or a conviction. This law will keep the victims of domestic violence safe and give them hope that they have a chance to become survivors.

Those with little or no parking who live here have a very hard time for almost half of the year. Having friends or family over for more than a couple hours is all but impossible for five whole months. It's not necessary and it's a great burden to your citizens who pay taxes for having cars in our fine town. If theres no snow on the ground, why are we punished by being unable to park? There was at least 2, closer to 3, out of the 5 months this year that the ban was ineffective and unecessary. Please help out your citizens and modify this procedure. Thank you very much for hearing us out.

Speed bumps have been removed from the streets of Plantation Acres for repaving. A significant increase in speeding vehicles has occurred which endangers the residents and pets or our neighborhood. With this petition we, the residents, urge the City of Plantation to ensure the speed bumps are reinstalled as quickly as possible.

I am so tired of seeing our pool time dwindling down, from 10:00 PM to 7:50 PM. The Mills Branch pool used to be open till 10 PM allowing all those people that worked late hours to come enjoy the pool, lets get our pool time back. Thanks Garth Faries

This petition is one that asks for educational improvement. To achieve this in our town we need more financial support than we are currently receiving. The money for this funding, however, should not have to come at the cost of jobs, or an increase in taxes. Rather, this petition asks for a re-evaluation of how money is spent, and a re-distribution of misused money to benefit our education.

Muslims face discrimination and unfair negative media coverage constantly. The image of the terroristic Muslim is almost force-fed, often overshadowing the contributions American-Muslims have brought forth, whether it be Olympic medals, war heroes, or even contributions towards the Apollo program. In a time where hate crimes and assaults against Muslims are sharply increasing and surpassing 9/11 era levels, the Muslim community needs positivity and strength more than ever. Sign the petition below to urge Congress to pass H. Res 869, which aims to acknowledge the contributions and achievements of Muslim Americans in this country

I started this petition because I have seen the corruption that exists at MSU first-hand. In the 1990s, I was part of a student government that attempted to raise the alarm regarding safety issues in the graduate dorm (these included a director who was trolling students for sex, insufficient night security that may have contributed to several sexual assaults within the building, and a Residence Life staff that failed to intervene in a student suicide attempt of which it had been warned). MSU responded viciously to our attempt to raise awareness--and a Vice President went so far as to threaten to out several of us as gay. Lou Anna Simon was Provost at the time, and she did nothing to stop this unethical conduct. I encourage signers of this petition to also sign and share the following, where one may read more on the topic: https://www.change.org/p/msu-still-ignores-its-past-abuse-of-gay-students-has-made-no-real-change-endtheabusemsu

As of May 1st, without informing customers, Aaron's stopped reporting to the credit bureaus when they receive payments. Without this resource, many people won't be able to build their credit scores, and what's worse is that they're allowing people to live under the illusion that their hard-earned money is going to building their scores. Please sign to ask Aaron's to begin reporting again!

There will soon be more plastic in our oceans than marine-life. Reusable grocery sacks are very inexpensive and are more likely to be used if grocers do not offer a free, unlimited supply of plastic bags for their customers.