People with severe disabilities like Ed Roberts founded the Independent Living Movement. Ed was assisted by personal care attendants for most of his life and neither he nor his attendants were subjected to technical surveillance and prohibitive policies that monitored their every move. Ed designed IHSS to be an utterly simple and deeply humane program that fostered living and letting live. In fact, it was precisely because he enjoyed the unhindered freedom to move and function that he accomplished all that he aimed for himself and us, his brethren, in the Independent Living Movement. His revolutionary Independent Living way of life was based on the notion that we may not be able to do many physical things for ourselves due to our disabilities but that we are still able to accomplish them with the use of assistive technology and the unhindered help of personal care assistants who respect our wishes and preferences in how to do things our way, when and how in the secure privacy of our home. The original IHSS was a very delicate and symbiotic relationship of respect and trust between us as personal care recipients and our personal care providers. The secure and private set up of that relationship is another form of the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness enshrined in the US Constitution, very much like a wheelchair is to one who cannot walk. IHSS is not like a business arrangement between animal handlers and a herd of cattle who have to be taken care of, an arrangement that businesses can manipulate with as much technology and control as they want. Yes, providing essential personal care services to human beings calls for funding the way we answer with food the problem of human hunger. But It does not give the government the right to violate our humanity and control and herd us like captive cattle. The outrageous insistence of government to force EVV on us or else is just truly sinister. Will this be another cottage industry to the home care and IT industries? The In-Home Supportive Services Program is only funded with IHSS dollars to make sure that disabled people don’t die, starve or suffer neglect because there is no one to feed, bathe and take care of them. The use of government funds to provide the personal assistance services should not force the loss of our civil liberties the way this intrusive EVV system exacts from the severely disabled who have no choice but to rely on personal care services. I’m sure that Taxpayers who fund the IHSS program would strongly oppose the use of invasive technologies that stifle the very basic freedoms that threaten their future when perhaps they themselves have to use the program. -Lillibeth Navarro

This petition is about eliminating gratuitous plastic waste. We have to use disposable plastic in hospital settings, but outside of that, we need to reduce our disposable plastic use as much as possible. Life worked out well when people just bought cartridges and then had to attach them to a reusable handle. Why did this wasteful disposable thing ever need to exist in the first place? We need a law against it!!!

adults 21 and older can possess up to one ounce at any time, normally a misdemeanor charge. The states also appear likely to adopt the same DUI policy, restricting driving with blood THC concentrations higher than 5 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL). The Colorado laws are more liberal in that they allow unlicensed production for personal use (up to three maturing plants at a time) and non-commercial transactions up to one ounce.

1. What have we learned regarding church accountability to the congregation and race in the handling of Rev. Susan? 2. What must be done to respond to the needs of Rev. Susan and her separation from ASC? 3. What must be done to transition ASC to a church that has a policy/governance structure that is completely democratic and accountable to its congregation and embodies multi-culturalism among its staff and congregants?

I think we should have more homeless shelters for veterans!!!

It's an insult to human intelligence to see some of us break up families over possession of an herb. Some law makers and politicians light up too. Let's Stop the hypocrisy and sign the bill to make marijuana recreational for Pennsylvania.

I am extremely concerned about the prospect of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid being cut.

It is imperative to protect our democracy and the rule of law! The executive and legislative branch of government have totally abnegated their duty to protect the constitution from abuse. It is time that " We The People" stand up and take back our country. It is within our power to stop the insanity and state that we have had enough of this chaos!

Wasting food is something I can't understand. I've been financially distraught & thankfully my love mate was able to get a job at a pizza place. I just have to say that if there weren't any pizzas leftovers at the restaurant, we didn't eat. We were able to make rent & feed the service dog but food for us was dependent on the managers generosity. We've overcome our financial situation - but in one of the poorest states in the country, a lot of people who could have food are giving up their chance to eat so that they can put gas in the car or make payments to their college. Please stop the waste. People are hungry & we can help.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41866046/the-giant-mass-of-plastic-waste-taking-over-the-caribbean

This is straight out of Trump's playbook and is dangerous to our democracy.

This is an important issue for me and I’m sick of just white women trying to be the only ones who obtain these rights. ALL women should have rights not just the ones who are white. I want to make this clear to everyone. Start at the state level and work up.