Okay, I see. It's not really _Pennsylvania_ that's trying to do something,
it's AccuWeather, based in Pennsylvania, and that idiot senator of theirs
teaming up. There's no way this is going to get anywhere--it's one of
literally thousands of nuisance bills that get introduced every year to make
folks back home feel good. Moreover, be aware that petition efforts of this
kind are virtually meaningless because politicians don't pay attention to
them. If you care, write a personal letter to your senators--it'll carry
much more weight because they know that _you_ cared enough to take a little
time and put a little personal effort into the process instead of just
signing somebody's shotgun petition.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: Save the national weather Service petition


What I would like to know is how anyone in Pennsylvania can do anything
affecting distribution and use of information from NWS, which is a federal
agency.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Save the national weather Service petition


Hi, all.

As some of you may know, there's an effort afoot in Pennsylvania to limit
peoples' access to National Weather Service information, and to make that
information available only to private weather forecasting organizations for
a fee.  Personally, I don't think the legislation stands a chance, but it
might be worth signing the petition at the link below if anyone feels
inclined to do so.  I think my petition signiture went through ok, although
registering that signiture seems a bit difficult with Jaws.  The petition
form itself, though, was quite easy to fill out.

Go to:

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SaveTheNWS/

for the actual petition.  Please be careful with case sensitive letters in
the address.

Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI