SUPPORT ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TANF (CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE) HB2

Ex-felons can be great employees and contributing members of American society, if they are given a chance at gainful employment. However, employers are finding back door ways to blatantly discriminate, and worse, these employers are not being monitored by any one agency. Stop this type of discrimination now.

Ex-felons can be great employees and contributing members of American society, if they are given a chance at gainful employment.

Please ban the use of plastic foam packaging. It cannot be recycled and never degrades, making it an environmental hazard. Other cities have already banned this material, saving taxpayers money and helping the environment. Plastic foam is unnecessary, potentially harmful to our health, and wasteful, so please ban it now.

Dear New York City Councilmembers; We the undersigned are residents of the proposed NID. We ask you to stop the Hudson River Park authorities from imposing an extra tax on blocks near the river, from the Battery to 59th Street. There are six reasons this tax is unreasonable and unfair:
 1. Hudson River Park is used heavily by out-of-town tourists and other residents of the city. This is not a neighborhood park - it is a city-wide open space, like Central Park. Do blocks near Central Park pay an extra tax? No. 2. The Hudson River Park administration overspent on deluxe, high-maintenance landscaping and decoration, but failed to budget for maintenance, and failed to plan for rising sea levels. The have too many staff and are always over budget. Now they want nearby residents to pay extra, forever, for their mismanagement. 
 3. They are calling it a Neighborhood Improvement District (NID), but that is not true. The Battery to 59th Street is not a neighborhood - it touches on nine or ten different neighborhoods. And with a real NID, neighborhood residents decide what to spend the money on - but this Hudson River Park tax would simply go to the Hudson River Park Trust authorities without any direct oversight by residents. 4. They claim that the Park increases the property values of nearby blocks – (which we dispute on factual grounds), and so an extra tax is fair. But even if it were hypothetically true that property values are higher, then normal property taxes are higher too. An extra tax beyond that higher normal tax would be completely unfair. 5. Our property taxes already rise year after year. 6. The governance system is not a one person one vote system. Co-ops do not have the same voting rights at condos.

"The New Hampshire Legislature is considering a bill (HB 660-FN) that would require a label on foods and agricultural commodities containing genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs). More than 9 out of 10 consumers support labeling GMOs." Will you sign my petition? Click here to add your name:

HB135 will make our communities safer by rolling back dangerous and unnecessary changes to a New Hampshire law that justifies the use of deadly force in self-defense. I support this bill, and urge the New Hampshire legislature to pass HB135 without delay.

Show the Governor that he is making bad choices and we believe that he is trying to destroy to many lives of both Mentally Challenged and the People who have helped to support them. Keep Broome Developmental Center open.

Time to quit being the 'wait and see' State and enact a GMO labeling law --THIS FALL!!

Atlantic City is many years into its casino and gambling era along with neighboring states competing for a piece of the action. As a citizen of the state of New Jersey I believe it is a waste of my tax dollars to subsidize the Revel Casino or any other gambling enterprise. As this industry continues to fail New Jerseyans should be entitled to a tax refund for backing Governor Christie's bet.