To restore V.A. benefits to those entitled , regardless of their income.

I see Deadliest Catch and yet I am disgusted. One boat captain attacks the cameraman from the Discovery Channel. Another one is a heroin addict and yet is not arrested or even forced to pay a fee to the harbor master. And he is still on TV. He should be in a jail cell and made an example of. The captain of the wizard should be arrested and have to pay a fee for his actions and for allowing his crew to push around their new crew member fighting hazing verbal taunting and treating them like dirt. How many former greenhorns have ended up in jail or homeless because of the way they were treated. Being treated like dirt for not being able to do a job they never trained for. Meanwhile none of these guys are made to go to school or undergo proper training for a job that can get them killed. Meanwhile half of these guys have serious health problems they should forced to quit if there health fails for good no coming back. There are a lot of problems in the crab fishing industry that have gone unchecked. These guys are paid to risk their health, do drugs, pick fights, and act like jerks and the public rewards them for it. The industry needs to change and these captains are too comfortable. The reform will force these guys to train new captains prepared for the future or make a small fortune for two seasons and invest in a new business. The mind set should be what am I gonna do with the money made here. So they can get out of the way for the new guys hungry for their shot. If you have back problems then get off the boat and stay off the boat. The captain of Cornelia marie had a stroke on his boat. What in the world. Enough is enough. Elliot should be in jail right now. For putting other lives at risk. Edgar Hansen should not be on the boat he should daving up and prepairing to leave his health has failed. This is a joke and it has to stop.

The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control does not know how to properly run what should be a private business to begin with. A private model is superior to the DABC and adheres to the state's already conservative values of reducing government and fostering business institutions.

to give the student the right to open a bank account at Amaan bank

I bought Scotch Broom and now have to spend the rest of my life trying to rid my property of it. If I had known it is a take-over horror that interferes with natural plants, animals, birds, sidewalks and parking lots; it gravitates and fills clear cuts and that the seeds last 100 years I wouldn't have bought it.

Last month, a 10-year-old girl in Paraguay arrived at a local hospital complaining of a stomachache. Tests revealed she was 21 weeks pregnant, the result of her stepfather raping her. Paraguay’s draconian abortion laws only allow for an abortion when the mother’s life is in danger. But even though the risks are building for this 10-year-old girl each day, so far government officials are refusing her access to an abortion that would protect her health. Forcing this young girl to carry the emotional and physical trauma of this pregnancy is tantamount to torture. Please, ask Paraguay’s Health Minister Dr. Antonio Barrios to allow this 10-year-old access to an abortion immediately, before it’s too late.

Yoga School of South County has been a Recreation Department staple for 16 years; for 7 of those years, it poured its own resources—in conjunction with the community's support—into improving Peace Dale Office Building and its space, making it more attractive and adding usable square footage. Affordable, quality yoga is needed in the community—Yoga School of South County serves that niche and has been an important community asset.

It is time for Moveon to move on. If we are going to work together to move America, we need to get behind Bernie to do it.

This petition has been created to provide the residents of Wellington, Florida the full disclosure of knowing what is in our food supply and what is used as animal feed prior to public consumption. We have the right to make choices about what we want in our bodies and the environmental effect the pesticides and herbicides are having globally. As educated consumers, we want to be able to make wise food choices and that requires GMO labeling.

The public has lost all faith in our elected officials and government in general.Each party seems to have its own interests at heart,not what's good for all the people.If it's a crime to lie to the police,or perjure yourself in court - Why are they permitted to lie to the public they serve?

In September of 2013, the Chair of the KCTS Board of Directors, Paula Rosput Reynolds (Former Safeco CEO, Chief restructuring officer of AIG, and an executive and board member of many major oil and gas companies) announced her excitement that KCTS was being presented a golden moment: the acquisition of Fisher Broadcasting Corporation by the media conglomerate, Sinclair, created a vacancy of top management talent that KCTS could seize upon. The board suddenly replaced Moss Bresnahan, a seasoned PBS Executive, with Rob Dunlop, a former KOMO Radio and Fisher executive. Almost immediately, Dunlop began making a series of far-reaching changes in the station. Loss of Community and Worker Appreciation Prior to 2013, KCTS’ stated the mission was to “improve the quality of life in the communities we serve by providing meaningful programming on air, online and in the community that informs, involves and inspires.” Since that time the mission has changed and, along with it, much of the direction of the station. The mission is now “To Inspire A Smarter World.” Ironically, the change included enormous reductions in the areas of the station which might have seemed to most live up to the new mission. For example, KCTS’ education unit was closed down, its outreach unit drastically cut back and eventually shuttered, its popular Science Café (run in cooperation with the Pacific Science Center) and History Café (a partnership with the Museum of History and Industry), were ended, and its national distribution unit, which prepared KCTS program for wider broadcast to other PBS stations, was also shut down. Also in 2013, the station announced drastic cuts in employee health care benefits and the elimination and restructuring of many jobs. These policies led to a serious reduction of the KCTS work force and community pledge drives. While pledge drives are not popular with everyone, they do allow an opportunity for the community to thank the station for its service and for the workers and volunteers of KCTS to thank subscribers and members for their generous gifts that make it possible for the station to provide excellent PBS and community-driven programming. The most recent, and perhaps most questionable of these decisions was the elimination of a dozen producing, photography, editing, and audio positions, with the result that only a couple of members of the station’s production unit remain. While the station has seen other layoffs during earlier management regimes, they have been made necessary, at least in part, by serious financial straits—in one case the station was millions of dollars in debt. But as even Dunlop admitted, there was no financial need to lay off these workers: In an interview, Dunlop stressed that the cutbacks were not financially driven. The station’s latest audited financial report shows that it had a surplus of $460,940 in fiscal 2014, compared with a $47,843 loss in FY13. Underwriting was also up $178,000 and total revenue grew by $293,000 during that period. There was no crisis of viewership either; he told KUOW radio that the station audience is currently “stable.” Recently the station has announced a Digital First Initiative that will eliminate studio productions, studio pledge drives, and, according to Dunlop, will dramatically change the way local programming is produced and made available to viewers. If these changes prevail, the KCTS community will receive much of its local programming solely in short-form videos delivered mostly through phones, computers and tablets rather than broadcasting. The rationale for this is that younger viewers are not watching the television broadcasts. Dunlop claims that KCTS’ audience is mainly children and viewers over the age of 50. While this is true, it is not new. KCTS has always been more attractive to older viewers, who are also more likely to contribute. So the elimination of so much that KCTS does must be driven by other motives beyond the PBS mission. One of the most troubling is the possibility that KCTS management may plan to sell off their digital channels to other media conglomerates. The Spectrum Auction In 2016, The FCC will hold an auction that will allow broadcasters to sell all or part of their federally- licensed frequency to the highest bidder. Why? Because the lower frequency of TV travels farther and penetrates walls better. This makes the TV band more valuable to broadband companies. “A Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) study claimed that $62 billion worth of spectrum could become $1 trillion for wireless, and one proposal would require all TV stations, including LPTV, to give up all spectrum, with subsidized multichannel services replacing over-the-air TV, even after viewers spent a great deal of money on the DTV transition.” This means that the frequency allocated to broadcast television is 16 times more valuable to broadband providers than it is to TV station owners –according to the study. That is a powerful reality that is not widely understood. So, we have no choice but to ponder how the shift from TV to other media will be made, and what, if anything, will replace local public television as a community service. The valuable model of community-funded television allows KCTS to meet a public need. If the station is shifting focus away from viewer funded television and shifting toward a larger funding source or sale of its license, the average viewer’s voice could be drowned out. Will our KCTS Vme and Create channels be sold to the highest bidder? Some anonymous unconfirmed reports tell us that KCTS may be undergoing plans to get out of the community license contracts for its Vme and Create channels that especially serve the Hispanic community and children. Is this a way to seize upon the lucrative sale of the TV frequency public asset? If the TV frequency is going to go to something else, what will take the place of Local TV? Traditional broadcasters oppose the idea of ...

We have all been affected by the courage of a young man who decided what was the right thing to do. The information he gave us exposed the insideous invasion of our privacy. We should celebrate Edward Snowden and be proud that he is one of us.