To insure American voters receive fair, equal, and unbiased information about the Democratic Presidential candidates. The press is already writing off Bernie Sanders as a viable candidate. As a supporter of Mr. Sanders this is infuriating as it demeans true Democracy.

The economy has recovered from the recession and continues to grow. But as so many of us know, that growth isn’t reaching the middle class. It’s being gobbled up by Wall Street and company executives. Luckily, Massachusetts can do something about it. Despite record profits, corporations are giving less and less to help the middle class. A recent report showed that regular employees see the smallest percentage of corporate profit at any point since 1950 -- even while productivity has kept rising. [1] In Massachusetts, the average employee gets $51,082 per year, while the average CEO receives $4.5 million. Looking at just the S&P 500 companies, that jumps to $13M for an average CEO, 255 times the average worker. [2] If a company is doing well, there is no reason their executives shouldn't earn more, but when that doesn't reach the rest of the employees, it bogs down the whole economy with unsustainable inequality. There is a pending bill in the Massachusetts Senate that would push corporations to curb this trend. It's a simple idea: If a company pays their executives more than 100 times what the median salary is for that company, they would pay another 2% in taxes on their profits. This gives companies an incentive to raise the salaries of average employees. Massachusetts does best when everyone gets a fair shot and gets a fair share. Everyone should get a chance to work their way to a living wage. 1. Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, "In 2013, Workers’ Share of Income in the Corporate Sector Fell to its Lowest Point since 1950." http://www.epi.org/publication/2013-workers-share-income-corporate-sector/ 2. CEO Pay by State, AFL-CIO. http://www.aflcio.org/Corporate-Watch/Paywatch-2014/CEO-Pay-by-State

As an educated woman, I can no longer stand the mockery Fox "News" is making of the rest of our news outlets. Fox "News" is lowering the standards for the rest of our media and I'm not having it!

We, the citizens of Greensboro, do not support Friendly Center monetizing on the suffering of our world's creatures. Fur is torn from the backs of live animals because it makes for a cleaner separation. The animal is then thrown into a pile where they remain alive for upwards of 10 minutes. The fur at Friendly Center comes from China, where there is little to no regulation. Sadly, cats and dogs are sold as fox or mink. We love Friendly Center, however feel as though CBL's priorities no longer coincide with our ever progressing city.

It's just a money grab by big cable for people who use large amounts of data. Those who use lots of data (legitimately) are being persecuted and taxed for using the Internet as it was meant to be used

Five years ago, Congress passed a law that included a rule requiring all publicly traded companies to disclose their CEO-to-worker pay ratio. But Wall Street and big corporations have lobbied hard to stop the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from enforcing this rule. It’s time to change that. Enter your name here to sign the petition telling the SEC it’s time to enforce the rule requiring companies to disclose their CEO-to-worker pay ratios.

In February, teachers and staff at Chicago's Urban Prep Academies announced that they were forming a union. They stood up to improve teaching and learning conditions in their schools, and asked CEO Tim King to respect their decision and their dedication to the schools. At the time, Mayor Emanuel publicly expressed his support for these educators. Now, unfortunately, Urban Prep administrators are responding by requiring teachers and staff to listen to anti-union speeches, cutting into valuable work time. One speech made misleading claims about the union that the teachers and staff seek to join, Chicago ACTS. These speeches aim to sow fear and misunderstanding about how unions work. Until educators vote on June 3rd in the union election, they may continue to be bombarded by administrators’ claims that having a union could result in worse teaching conditions and that a union would not be true to the mission of Urban Prep—a mission that these educators take very seriously and would use their union to uphold. The teachers and staff have discovered how much their administration spends on consultants, lobbyists, and outside events, while seeing the challenge of meeting their students needs despite continued turnover of staff each year.They have discovered how much their administration spends on consultants, lobbyists, and outside events, while teachers keep striving to meet their students’ needs, despite high staff turnover. The teachers and staff at Urban Prep are dedicated to their schools’ long-term success and are organizing to bring greater accountability and stability to their schools and their students. Public schools like Urban Prep should remain neutral when educators seek to form a union. Mayor Rahm Emanuel should live up to his pledge of support for teachers at charter schools, by telling Tim King to respect the educators at Urban Prep and to stop using anti-union messages to discourage them in their upcoming election.

Too many people believe that the lies of Bill O'Reilly represent factual news. He is damaging to democracy, a spiteful liar who must be taken off the air.

Despite Costco’s reputation as socially-responsible and worker-friendly, it continues to profit from selling products made by sweatshop manufacturer Reynolds and its subsidiary company, Pactiv Corp. Pactiv forced its women workers in Kearny, NJ, to work mandatory and excessive overtime of up to 84 hours per week (12 hours 7 days a week) for weeks on end. Overheated factory rooms, limited bathroom and water breaks, and multiple other violations on top of the fatigue, exhaustion and extensive repetitive actions from dangerous and destructive mandatory overtime hours all led to severe injury and sustained disability among the workers. When workers tried to speak out, they were laid off. By refusing to take Reynolds' products off their shelves, Costco is violating it’s own Supplier Code of Conduct which forbids suppliers to impose mandatory and excessive overtime. Costco is also supporting sweatshop labor. While affected workers are demanding that Pactiv and parent company Reynolds address sweatshop conditions, do away with mandatory overtime and reinstate workers, neither Pactiv nor Reynolds has complied. COSTCO, STOP SUPPORTING SWEATSHOP FACTORIES AND DO THE RIGHT THING - BREAK TIES WITH REYNOLDS AND PACTIV!

Such egregious programming is not only inflammatory, it is unconscionably unpatriotic, and wholly un-American! Likewise, it constitutes a gross violation of the public trust. Google Inc. has a duty of care not to mislead the public, nor to allow others to do so under its trademark identity. Likewise, Google Inc. holds a fiduciary duty to its shareholders not to sanction product misuse in a way which could knowingly and directly decrement shareholder value — including brand alignment with a nationally recognized racial pejorative form of the N-word. Please read a recent Washington Post article for details: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19/if-you-search-google-maps-for-the-n-word-it-gives-you-the-white-house/?postshare=6821432083232816) This situation must be corrected immediately, and with all deliberate dispatch due The President of The United States.

Watch John Oliver's revealing piece on the secret reality behind America's favorite meat, then send a message to Congress to protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry companies. http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=2109 The poultry sector is dominated by a few large poultry processing companies that control every step of chicken production. Farmers who raise chickens do not even own the birds, though they do own the waste they create and are responsible for making costly upgrades to their farms, as dictated by these companies. Farmers borrow massive amounts of money -- sometimes more than a million dollars -- to build and upgrade the chicken houses as directed by the companies. Though the farmers must make payment on these loans for a decade or more, they often are dependent on getting the next delivery of chicks under a short-term, flock-to-flock contract to repay their debt. Chicken companies often retaliate against farmers who speak out against unfair and abusive conditions in the poultry industry by terminating their contracts, leaving farmers unable to pay their mountains of debt. Farmers should not be betting the farm if they exercise their First Amendment right to speak out or talk to public officials about the unfairness in the poultry industry. Please support Representative Kaptur's efforts to help level the playing field and protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry corporations.

On May 19, former Commerce Secretary William Daley had an op-ed in the New York Times in support of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. [1] About this op-ed, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has written, [2] “William Daley’s pro-TPP op-ed in today’s Times is just awful, on multiple levels…But what really annoyed me, even if it’s not necessarily the worst bit, was this: ‘But today, of the 40 largest economies, the United States ranks 39th in the share of our gross domestic product that comes from exports. This is because our products face very high barriers to entry overseas in the form of tariffs, quotas and outright discrimination.’ Actually, no. We have a low export share because we’re a big country… claiming that the relatively low US export share says anything at all about trade barriers makes me want to bang my head against a wall.” The New York Times fact-checks the op-eds that it publishes. Should the New York Times have published such a grossly misleading claim? Can NYT editors dispute that the claim was grossly misleading, if Paul Krugman attests that it was? Should the NYT publish a correction, clarification, or editor’s note to accompany the op-ed? Urge NYT editors to investigate by signing and sharing our petition. References: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/opinion/free-trade-is-not-the-enemy.html 2. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/the-mis-selling-of-tpp/