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It is the civic duty of every citizen to hold their government accountable when it betrays the public trust and when it demonstrably fails to exercise its prescribed powers. When those elected behave as though they are above the law and abandon their Oath of Office to uphold and defend the Constitution, it remains for the people to demand justice for the wrongs committed against them.

The Indian Trail Town Council, and staff, have continued to engage in unethical, unlawful, immoral, and illegal actions. The following list of offenses provides sufficient probable cause to investigate the culture of corruption that pervades local government, which endangers the people's unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The intent of this petition is to begin the process of restoring an open and transparent government to the Town of Indian Trail, North Carolina.

Citation of Offenses

Inspection and Examination of Records: Repeated secreting, tampering, editing, manipulation, and mishandling of official documents pertaining to alleged embezzlement of up to $400,000.00 by a former staff member.

Defrauding the Public: Deliberate misrepresentation of facts regarding said embezzlement, characterizing it as a payroll discrepancy where no such evidence exists.

Racketeering: Undocumented payments to a former mayor.

Coercion: Former staff member intimated or directly threatened civil action against anyone on the council who divulged criminal activities.

Bribery: Former staff member was paid, and gag ordered, to remain silent.

Usurpation of Authority: Council members unlawfully attempted to evict the mayor from a meeting by ordering a Sheriff's deputy to forcefully remove him.

Acts of Intimidation, Defamation of Character, and Reckless Endangerment: Council members engaged in malicious slander and libel via social media, like Facebook, and on a regional radio program. Council members condoned acts of violence against resident(s) by poisoning drinks and use of guns.

Manipulation of official meeting recordings: Town Clerk deleted a section of publicly posted recording of a meeting at the instruction of a councilman.

Contempt toward residents: Council members used condescending and derogatory comments via official town email.

Boycotted Meetings: Council members boycotted duly announced meetings.

Secret meetings: Council members attended unannounced, private meetings where they accounted as a quorum or where the public had a right to be present.

Conflict of Interest: Council members have an appearance of impropriety whereby business before the Council may be unduly influenced to benefit select constituents.

Undue Influence: Council members campaigns and business ties funded by developers.

Closed Sessions: Voting on actions and closed-door discussions regarding personnel for questions of character that must be publicly exercised in Open Sessions.

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A recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote (plebiscite), initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition.

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An academic definition of Spoken Word:
“Spoken Word is a category of performance art to encompass any new seriously developed genre or traditional form that is primarily word-based & is not exclusively Music, Theatre or Dance but may include collaborations with other non-word-based art genres or works created in collaboration with artists from non-word-based disciplines.”

An explanation of Spoken Word:
“Throughout human history, poetry and spoken word arts have been essential to the preservation and celebration of all aspect of the human condition. Every culture has had its poets and oral historians who have witnessed and recounted the intrigues, wanderings, beliefs, desires, tragedies and joys of the human condition” – “Stage A Poetry Slam” by Marc Kelly Smith (Creator of the Poetry Slam c. 1986 – “So What!”)

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We want to make National Spoken Word Day a holiday. We celebrated the first one on 10-10-10, but will make the official date April 10 to coincide with National Poetry Month.

An academic definition of Spoken Word:
“Spoken Word is a category of performance art to encompass any new seriously developed genre or traditional form that is primarily word-based & is not exclusively Music, Theatre or Dance but may include collaborations with other non-word-based art genres or works created in collaboration with artists from non-word-based disciplines.”

An explanation of Spoken Word:
“Throughout human history, poetry and spoken word arts have been essential to the preservation and celebration of all aspect of the human condition. Every culture has had its poets and oral historians who have witnessed and recounted the intrigues, wanderings, beliefs, desires, tragedies and joys of the human condition” – “Stage A Poetry Slam” by Marc Kelly Smith (Creator of the Poetry Slam c. 1986 – “So What!”)

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Officer Gilmore was shot and killed after he and his partner responded to a call of a large disorderly group playing loud music. After clearing the group, Officer Gilmore was sitting in his patrol car completing a report when a man approached the vehicle and shot Officer Gilmore in the face, killing him. The suspect was captured the next day and sentenced to life in prison.

On October 16, 2007, the suspect was given a parole hearing. His parole was denied.

Officer Gilmore had been with the agency for 17 months and was survived by his wife, son, daughter and parents.

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Lowe's home improvement has proposed to erect a 159,054 square foot mega store at 1500 N. Croatan Hwy adjacent to Landing Drive and First Street in Kill Devil Hills, NC. This site is approximately 1500 ft from property of the historic Wright Brothers National Memorial.

The plan includes an addition of at least 3.5 feet of fill to achieve a 10.5 foot elevation above sea level on the 12.8 acre lot which may potentially flood the surrounding neighborhood and the park despite any swales, retention areas, and piping meant to divert storm water. A stop light would also be added at US 158 and Landing Drive.

Zoning variances are being requested for the following issues: to allow only 409 parking spaces instead of the required 795 for a business this size, 38 foot light poles, planting fewer trees than required along US 158.

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Many people may believe that drug addicts should be given jail time because they commit many crimes, but 3 months in jail and they will be back on the street committing the same crimes. If rehab was offered, they could get better and benefit society.

Addicts sentenced to jail are not being helped physically or mentally and according to the American Corrections Association, the average daily cost per state prison inmate per day in the US is $67.55. State prisons held 253,300 inmates for drug offenses in 2007. That means states spent approximately $17,110,415 per day to imprison drug offenders, or $6,245,301,475 per year.

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This petition is for grandparents in the state of NC "only" who may be interested in grandparent visitation in the state of NC.

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Fires Creek Rim & Basin is a 16,000 acre wilderness area that has one small privately owned, 50 acre parcel of land. It is located near a trail, off a gravel Forest Service road and up near the headwaters of a creek that flows into Fires Creek. The land is high enough that should buildings be erected on it, they could be seen from both the Appalachian & Bartram Trails.

The Forest Service claims to be responsible to provide access to the parcel based on federal legislation that was passed by Congress when Alaska became a state. To apply that same law here is stretching the parameters of the intent of the law.

In 1983, N. C. passed a Ridge Line Protection law that limits what can be built near ridge lines with height specifications of structures relative to ridge tops.

In 2002, N. C. Attorney General Roy Cooper wrote his opinion on a proposal put forth by the TVA concerning building windmills near the TN-NC border. In it, he used the term "viewshed" in a negative light. He reasoned that people who were in high elevations in some N. C. locations could see TVA windmills and that the TVA had no right to spoil the natural view.

If homes were built in the private in-holding, that would be far worse than windmills so far as spoiling an otherwise wildness mountaintop. There are many other issues that would compromise the wilderness--worsened water quality in Fires Creek, erosion from development, etc.

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Alcohol may help Newland's economy, but it also will endanger the lives of those in the area. Not only does it endanger the lives of people who drink, but the ones who dont drink.

Alcohol lowers the ability to make responsible decisions. No matter what the law says people will drive drunk, especially since its closer.

They'll think they wont get caught because its closer than if they had to drive to Spruce Pine or Banner Elk. Alcohol effects the brain and makes people act irrationally.

Alcohol causes domestic violence (along with other violence), liver failure, brain damage, cancer, and other severe health problems.

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As of July 1st 2007 NC Universities were given the right to regulate smoking at properties owned or leased by the university.

Appalachian State took full advantage of this and, as of January 2008, had banned smoking within 50 feet of all campus buildings. The high annual rainfall and atrocious winter weather of Boone make for an unpleasant outdoor smoking environment. Ashtrays and cigarette receptacles were removed from building entrances and put "wherever possible".

Simply put, reinstallation of the ashtrays was neglected and now our campus is severely lacking in this area. Cigarette butts are piling up, while the lack of ashtrays tempts smokers to use trash cans instead causing a fire hazard.

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Voters approved a school bond in 2008 that included a new elementary school and autism wing in the Southeast area.

Guilford County schools has selected a 55 acre location in McLeansville as the site of the new Southeast elementary school (located in the Eastern school district).

GCS indicates they cannot find a suitable site within the Southeast school district.

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This is in support of the fair treatment of Gene Alexander, his farm, his cows, and his property rights. Mr. Alexander is one of the last farmers of his kind remaining in the U.S. At the age of 92, Mr. Alexander has farmed his land for close to 70 years. He has been an active part of the farming community of Iredell County for decades.

Mr. Alexander’s property is not within the Mooresville City limits. However, the town of Mooresville (in Iredell County, North Carolina) is condemning the farmland to construct an obtrusive sewer line through the most prime area of Mr. Alexander’s farm. The construction of the sewer will come through with 20 raised manholes as high as 3-4 feet tall, which the town has refused to provide flush and vented to the creek bank (aka ground level manholes). Nor will they compensate for the interruption of farming during construction. The line will very much obstruct both the cows’ feeding and water supply.

The town promised 4 taps (to the sewer line) in negotiation, but then went straight into condemnation without any consideration of previous negotiation agreements. Further, the sewer line was already engineered before Mr. Alexander was even notified, thus ignoring the actual property owner’s requests. Requests were made that the sewer line be moved from the middle of the field. The town said this was possible all at Mr. Alexander’s sole expense which would be in excess of $73,000.

The costs to Mr. Alexander, his property, his cows and business prove astronomical and will permanently harm the aesthetics and beauty of his property and the environment of this land. Any requests for help in keeping this business intact during the two years of construction have been refused. This unfair treatment of Mr. Alexander and taking of his farmland provides no benefit for Mr. Alexander, but is only detrimental to his business, land and beloved animals.

We should not allow this unfair treatment and lack of consideration to be shown by our elected officials.

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In October 2007, Representative Mike McIntyre pledged to address climate change. Nearly two years later, he has done absolutely nothing to address the issue.

Enough Talk, Let's See Some Action! North Carolina residents and UNCW ECO are holding Representative Mike McIntyre accountable and calling for immediate climate action.

* WATCH the video and forward it to every North Carolina resident you know! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZL9TU4M6l0

* CALL Rep. McIntyre at (202) 225-2731. Demand that he take global warming seriously. There is a sample script for calling, below.

* WRITE President Obama, and ask him to rejoin the international community by signing a global climate change treaty. The opportunity to pass a global treaty will arise at the December 2009 UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, and President Obama must be a leader on climate change issues. https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=472

Our elected officials work for us! Make your voice heard. Demand science-based reductions on global warming pollution.

For the sake of the health and livelihood of future generations, demand science-based climate action now!

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Clemmons State Forest has trails, pond, cabins, barn, pasture and 1,500 square foot building currently not used. People currently do not have public access to these. Our taxes pay for these and we can't use them for recreational activities.

The park is closed on holidays and not open year-round.

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The Federal Government of the United States of America is diminishing the sovereignty of individual states by ignoring the 10th Amendment.

The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.

The 10th Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

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Beverly Perdue & Linda Garrou are cutting the funding for the NC Neurologic Epilepsy Program. The cuts include the Epilepsy Information Service, The Epilepsy Medication Fund, and some funding to 4 Health Departments. Without these services at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center a great number of people with Epilepsy in North Carolina will have nowhere to go for support or information.

I know that a lot of people signing this may not know me personally, but I need your help. I am a 27 year old stay at home mom of a two year old and one year old. I am just one of the cases that will be affected greatly by the budget cut. I was diagnosed in 2007 with Epilepsy. I can't tell you the worry I feel every day that today might be the day that I have a seizure. Without the help of the NC Neurologic Epilepsy Program, I don't know where I would be. They saved my life and many others. To them, my family and I are extremely grateful.

Please help me and stand up for the 200,000 mothers, fathers, children, sisters and brothers that are diagnosed each year. It takes just a moment to sign this and pass it on, but it is worth it to save a life!

Beverly Perdue & Linda Garrou are obviously uninformed of the severity of Epilepsy and our need for The NC Neurologic Epilepsy Program. Help us inform them!

Thank you for your help and support!

A wife and mother living with epilepsy,
Megan Burchett

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Classes of 2010 and 2011 for the Fair Treatment of Graduating Students With Reference to the Graduation Project

It has been mentioned, though vaguely, before this time, that a Graduation Project might be required of all students. Just this year, the project, which is supposed to be a four year endeavor for every student, was imposed upon the classes of 2010 and 2011.

This project was unfairly imposed upon the classes of 2010 and 2011. These classes will not have the amount of time which was supposed to be allocated by the State for completion of this task. This project was poorly planned, and the teachers and administrators who are supposed to guide these young people are uninformed as to what the project is, and what requirements must be met in order to properly complete this work.

Many students, coming from less-privileged households will find it extremely difficult, if not nearly impossible to properly finish this project, as they may not have access to the materials necessary for completion of this task. It is a tragedy that all students do not have access to these materials, but if the Great State of North Carolina is truly determined and adamant to push this unscrupulous proposition upon the classes of 2010 and 2011, then the Great State must accept this proposal from those who are suffering this serious injustice: North Carolina must be willing to provide the materials appropriate and necessary for the completion of this project to every student who needs them. It would be only proper that every student who wanted to partake in this project to secure their graduation would be offered an equal opportunity.

Accuracy is also of significance. As of this time, the classes of 2010 and 2011 will be required to complete this project in order to obtain a high school diploma, even if these students have excelled during all of their years in school. Not having a decent amount of time in which to successfully complete this project could present a problem. This project should not be a means with which to gamble with the graduation of these students! The schools, counties, and State have at least twelve years of work and grades completed by these students with which to determine whether or not the student is deserving of graduation. To put twelve years of strenuous work in jeopardy because of one piece of work is absolutely unacceptable, and a disgrace to the students who were working hard for their entire schooling career only to have yet another restriction to bar them from reaching success.

Daily, and exponentially, the opposition and resentment for this inequity grows. Every time this project is mentioned, the students become irate and frustrated. They desperately seek for answers by interrogating their teachers and administrators, only to find that ignorance and occasionally the same contempt is held by the educators and administrators. Because of this uncertainty and lack of direction and management that appears to be mutual amongst students and those above them, students are stressed to the point that they are almost incapable of completing the work assigned to them by teachers. This project has become an unexpected distraction to schools across the State who did not already have this system in place.

Because of lack of time and preparation, this project is unfair to the classes of 2010 and 2011, except to those schools who already had this program in place and thus had a proper plan. For the remaining schools who did not have this plan in place before this year, they will have to deal with apathy, confusion, frustration and anger. However, throughout the State, graduation rates will decrease, and possibly dropout rates, because of contempt for this project.

The Great State should know that too many irreplaceable, outstandingly brilliant minds will be wasted if this project is required of these classes. The resentment is so strong, that there has been talk of virtually no class of 2010 or 2011 for North Carolina, because of the perplexity of a project that is unnecessary and improperly planned in haste.

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In 2006, North Carolina's General Assembly approved a pilot program that allowed communities to test the use of the so-called Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). IRV is a form of ranked-choice voting where voters casting a ballot to rank from one to three choices for each office in races with more than two candidates

The pilot program was supposed to be managed by the NC State Board of Elections, but our legislature didn’t appropriate any extra funding. Several non-profit advocacy groups took advantage of that funding vacuum to “assume” a great deal of responsibility for the IRV pilot program. Two non-profits even paid for an SBOE staffer to travel overseas to observe Scottish ranked choice elections. No one kept track of the value of all that in-kind “volunteer” support.

The political parties were not allowed to participate in the planning of the IRV pilot. Before the elections, political party leaders asked for but were not provided with information before the election about how the program would be conducted and evaluated.

Many communities were asked to participate, but most refused outright. 4 voted NO, but only 2 - Cary and Hendersonville – participated in the IRV pilot in 2007. Only one single contest in Cary involving a little more than 3000 votes in 8 precincts went to the instant runoff. That is statistically insignificant compared to 5.8 million voters in 2800 precincts in 548 municipalities in North Carolina’s 100 counties! Supporters claim the pilot was a success, but no counties volunteered to participate in the 2008 pilot.

NC passed some of the nation’s toughest election laws in 2005 after paperless DRE touchscreen voting machines lost thousands of Carteret County votes in the 2004 General Election. Our highly praised and hard-won election laws created tough standards that are key to protecting 5.8 million North Carolina voters from harm caused by uncertified software, counting errors, and unscrupulous vendors.

But now those standards are under attack from IRV that is being misrepresented as election reform. IRV advocates want IRV to be an option for the future, and are asking the General Assembly to extend and expand the IRV pilot. Many of their claims about IRV are simply not true once you look beyond the hype and the sophistry.

IRV does not ensure majority winners in one single election. The winner of our state’s single "instant runoff" contest took office with 1401 votes – less than 50% plus one vote (1512) of the 3022 votes cast. Our state’s current election equipment won’t tabulate IRV ballots, so the IRV ballots had to be tabulated by hand with workarounds that violated state election laws. And one small error in that tabulation cascaded info a recount that was done another day when the public could not observe it. In the 20 IRV elections in San Francisco held since adopting IRV, any elections going into an IRV “runoff” were won with less than a majority.

IRV only saves money if you consider nothing more than a single IRV election being cheaper than two elections (original plus runoff). While runoff elections are very rarely needed, IRV would require new & more expensive programming, additional voter education and training for poll workers and election administrators, and increased ballot printing expenditures. Candidates would need to spend time and money educating voters. We might need to purchase new voting machines. All those costs would have to be paid for even if no races ever required an instant runoff!

Other states have considered and rejected IRV once they researched the high costs of implementation – something our state has yet to estimate. MD estimated costs of $3.08 to $3.52 per registered voter for start-up costs, and 48 cents per voter every subsequent election year. Once you factor the extra costs of implementation and administration of IRV for all our 5.8 million registered voters, NC might need to spend $18 million up front to implement IRV and millions every election year thereafter. Over a 33 year time frame that adds up to an additional $40 million above and beyond the cost of holding rarely needed runoff elections.

IRV supporters claim that we could have avoided the June 24 statewide runoff by using IRV in the May primary. As far back as March 2007 our own State Board of Elections considered IRV too risky to use in the May 2008 primary due to heavy turnout in the Democratic primary and the use of the new Same Day Registration at Early Voting sites. Had NC used IRV in the May 2008, we might have suffered a Florida-style election meltdown.

IRV supporters claim that many people and organizations support IRV, but how many of know both sides of the issue? And how many more oppose IRV in silence?

You won’t hear IRV advocates tell you how hard a hard time they had getting two out of 548 NC municipalities to be IRV guinea pigs. They won’t tell you that 4 municipalities voted not to participate in the IRV pilot once they knew about the risks. What did those 4 know about IRV that the other two didn’t know? Those 4 knew the risks and got public feedback before taking their votes.

The delegates to 4 US Congressional District Conventions for the North Carolina Democratic Party passed Resolutions Opposing IRV – and two of those districts include Wake County – one of the two counties where IRV was used in 2007. Two Districts passed a resolution Supporting IRV, but they both originated in counties that did not use IRV in any elections.

Protecting our democracy by keeping our verified voting standards is not a special or partisan issue. North Carolina voters of every background (republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, disabled groups, minority groups, mainstream groups) agree that we do not want any changes to our voting which may, in any way, compromise the integrity of our votes. Please join in our effort to halt IRV in NC. Ask your friend to do so too.

PLEASE - NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS ONLY! ALL OTHERS ARE FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR INFORMATION, BUT I NEED NC VOTERS ONLY!

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Are you a North Carolina resident, or do you know any NC residents who would rather their tax dollars pay for higher education, and not be wasted on the power bill?

UNCW often leaves lights, computers, etc. turned on, even though no one may be using them. This is a wasteful use of electricity.

Recently, it was estimated that over $4,100 could be saved each year in DeLoach Hall, by practical energy conservation methods. This is only one building on campus! UNCW needs to be more responsible with our precious natural resources and our money.

Help us send a message to UNCW, the UNC System, and college administrators across the state!

Although we appreciate everyone's support, we recommend only NC residents sign.

Listing your email address increases the credibility of your signature. Note: your email address remains anonymous to the public. We take confidentiality very seriously.

Thank you for your support!
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Election reform and voting rights advocates are working hard to bring instant runoff voting (IRV) to communities across the U.S., including here in North Carolina

In 2006, North Carolina's General Assembly approved a pilot program that allowed communities to use instant runoff voting. Cary and Hendersonville became the first places in the south to use IRV ballots. By using IRV, the Town of Cary avoided a traditional runoff and saved $28,000.

However, the legislation that enabled the pilots has expired. In order to make IRV an option in the future, the NC General Assembly must chose to extend and expand the IRV pilot program.

To make IRV a sustainable option for NC, we must ask the state to invest in the appropriate software upgrades and implement the highest standards in election integrity to maintain public confidence in our elections.

In 2006, North Carolina spent $3.4 million on one statewide run-off election for one primary race, resulting in a 3% voter turnout. This year the runoff for the Democratic nominee for Labor Commissioner is likely to see similar results - while 90% of the nearly $4 million price tag borne by the counties.

Run-off elections almost always see a drop in turnout, and those who do vote in run-offs tend to be older, whiter, and more affluent. IRV helps to ensure greater voter voice in one election, and a majority winner. It also prevents "spoiler" elections - where two candidates with similar platforms split the vote and allow another candidate representing a minority platform to win.

IRV has been used in:
San Fransisco, CA
Minneapolis, MN
Santa Fe, NM
Takoma Park, MD
Vermont
Scotland
Australia
Ireland
Military voters overseas from SC and LA

It has been endorsed by USA Today, Senator John McCain, Senator Barack Obama, DNC Chair Howard Dean, VT and CA League of Women Voters, Center for Consitutional Rights, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and the National Association of State PIRGs.

It has been endorsed in North Carolina by the Winston Salem Journal, Wilmington Star News, Fayetteville News and Observer, Blue Ridge Now, Democracy NC, North Carolina Fair Share, Common Cause NC and John Hood (of the John Locke Foundation).

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Currently New Hanover County offers space to fairs which raffle live animals to contestants. The raffled animals range from baby iguanas to goldfish.

People who win these animals receive little or no information on how to care for them. They may not even want them. The futures of these animals is unknown. It is possible that they are mistreated or even abandoned.

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Fireworks have been a part of the 4th of july celebrations for a long time in my life and these laws banning all explosive, bottle rockets candles etc... just doesn't make sence to me, it just seems wrong that the gov'nt is taking away our rights to freedom of expression, and celebrating our holiday (ironically the holiday that is celebrating our freedom) put a warning sticker on the fireworks and let people do what they want, don't take peoples freedom away just because some people are careless, they deserve what they get.

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Since the beginning of all skate parks in North Carolina, they have been primarily targeted to skateboarders.

Many local bikers want a new park for bikes to help the bikers have a place to ride instead of the streets.

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This is the last opportunity to create a great destination park in Raleigh, the Capitol City of North Carolina. There are only 306 acres remaining of approximately 2000 original acres of the Dorothea Dix Campus, and it is important to preserve it all for a great destination park.

306 acres is barely enough for a park of this stature, so we must save it all so we have space for both the attractions, the open space, and the connections to its neighbors.

If you would like to contribute to Saving Dix Park, please visit our membership and contribution page at http://dix306.org/dixpark/membership_form.htm

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In October 2006 Foxy 107.1/104.3 FM added the Michael Baisden Show which airs from 3:00p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The show is a syndicate of ABC Radio Networks.

Prior to this addition, the Foxy "drive-time" programming included a limited variety of classic smooth R&B tunes from the 70's, 80's, and 90's with a mix of traffic, news, and celebrity "infotainment" delivered by on-air personality, Cy Young.

A significant number of Foxy listeners, as evidenced on the www.foxyhits.com message board, are disappointed with the content and quality of the Michael Baisden Show. Mr. Baisden promotes himself as "The Bad Boy of Radio" and lives up to that title at least once a week discussing topics like laser vaginal rejuvination, men faking orgasms, and the relatively low number of african-american swingers as compared to other races?"

This petition is intended to amplify the voices of dissatisfied Foxy listeners and compel the decision makers at the station to reconsider making significant programming changes without listener input.

Email address collection is compulsory, this is done to verify each signature is real and unique, much like a signature on paper. They will not be posted online or used for any other reason.

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CHICAGO Oct 9, 2006 (AP)— Here's some soothing medicine for stressed-out parents and overscheduled kids: The American Academy of Pediatrics says what children really need for healthy development is more good, old-fashioned playtime.

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A few states still euthanize animals routinely using the gas chamber.

Using the gas chamber is not humane, it is merely a method of mass destruction and torture as seen in Hitler's Germany.

We see it as barbaric, as well as deem it cruel and unusual punishment when executing prisoners. Why then is it humane to execute innocent animals?

Please think about you being in their position and stop this barbaric means of euthanasia in North Carolina.

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Hiwassee Road is a small county road that is a vital connector between Mecklenburg County and Cabarrus County. The exploding growth of these two counties has made this small road of big importance to vehicular traffic. This once less traveled road is now used by many. The problem lies in the deteriorating conditions of this small county road. The road is too narrow for big vehicles , the edges of the road are breaking away, the shoulder of the road has deep ruts and to make matters worse this road has passing zones.

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One thousand people die each each year from car accidents caused by people distracted on cell phones. Outlawing the use of handheld cell phones while driving would greatly reduce this number. THis law has already been passed in New York, so it would be wonderful if North Carolina could be the next state to pass such a law.

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