I developed an allergy to a preservative that is found in many products, from pesticides and cleaning materials to soaps and cosmetics. I have found it very difficult to avoid this chemical, as ingredients are not always listed, and can be very difficult to locate (webites, emails to companies, phone calls). I found that many people are allergic to this compound, as well as others, and we should be able to easily find out this information in order to protect our health.

The City of Urbana and the Urbana Free Library are facing new budget challenges following Carle Hospital's removal from the Urbana tax rolls. In light of these new budget constraints, the board of the Urbana Free Library is beginning to consider cuts to services provided to Urbana residents, such as cutting library hours. Before considering cuts to library services, the Urbana City Council and the library board should consider raising the library levy. No Urbana homeowner loves the idea of paying higher taxes on their house, but most Urbana homeowners would rather pay a little bit more in taxes than see the Library forced to cut its services to Urbana residents. Show you agree by signing our petition to the Urbana CIty Council and Mayor Prussing.

Building a future for Albuquerque youth.

I, along with several other residents of Baton Rouge, firmly believe that College Drive deserves a more appropriate title. Not only does Traffic Avenue have a nicer, more resounding ring to it, it gives commuters an immediate sense of impending doom upon approach.

I am sick and tired of paying premium prices for goods and services in a state where they totally abuse the anti-trust laws and the major shipping is only done by one company as a total MONOPOLY. I will not stand back and let one company price gauge us all to death plain and simple. I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more, period.

Elizabeth Warren was elected to Senate leadership today! She will be in charge of shaping the Democrats' messaging and policy. Can you sign this "thank you card" congratulating Elizabeth Warren on her appointment?

my slender-identity issues people tell me to just accept the reality which tells me that i am not big and strong. who are they to judge? have they walked a mile in my shoes? i feel like i should be big and strong. furthermore, much like i feel that i should be famous (which i will elaborate on later), i feel like i was born with the identity of a big and strong "lumberjack" type of man with abundantly hairy armpits and a hairy chest. as a boy, i had never felt comfortable being skinny and weak. i was a strong man in a weak man's body. my small penis made me uncomfortable, my skinny wrists and arms made me uncomfortable, and i was especially never comfortable in the locker-room with my smooth armpits out for all the owners of hairy armpits to see. if i had the money that chastity bono's parents had, i would have gotten an armpit-change operation so that i would have felt comfortable with myself. i'm sorry, but walk a mile in my shoes and you'll see that any "pin the hair on the armpit" game is just as legitimate as a "pin the penis on the girl" game is. furthermore, just as much as i listened to adam ant's "strip" record, i was adamant that i wasn't going to go to a head-doctor to learn to accept the reality of my hairless armpits. likewise, i am not going to go to a head-doctor to learn to accept the reality of not having the body of a big and strong lumberjack/football player/manly man. my identity is my identity, some would say it's a mistaken identity, but those people are hateful to tell me that it is a mistake to see myself as a big and strong and mighty superman. didn't tom petty say "you don't know what it's like to be me," or something? if my brain's identity will make me regard myself in a way that is contrary to reality, then it is reality that needs to change...and NOT ME. in 1978, the movie "grease" was released the day after i turned 4. you'd have seen me doing my best to emulate john travolta's "greased lightning" dance. in 1983, when i became obsessed with michael jackson, you'd have seen me doing my best to emulate his "moonwalk" or "huevo" moves. in 1984 or 1985, a long obsession with madonna began. in 1990, i had memorized her whole "vogue" dance a month before seeing her "blond ambition world tour" - actually, i used the vcr to record mtv's entire "blond date with madonna" weekend. i have always had the identity of a famous person. at 4 years old, gosh - i was 9 or 10, and i had processed 9 or 10 years worth of information, before i realized that i was "born gay". well, for that reason alone, i can honestly say that it's more legitimate for me to be famous than it is for me to be gay. now, given that feelings i have about myself were there from an early age, i can honestly say that i was born this way. it would be a mistake to hire a psychologist as a way to get me to stop feeling the way i feel about myself. the mirror does not represent WHO I AM, regarding the big and strong hero of a man who is the only man i have respect for. the mirror is my enemy because i have no respect for myself, but i would love myself if i'd get some props surgically implanted on my body like chastity bono's fabricated gender was implanted on her body. if the government pays for prisoners to have sex-change operations, if the government spends money to legitimize gender-identity issues harbored by the trash-heap of society, then they should also spend money to legitimize the slender-identity issues of wimps who want to be heroes. especially if the wimps have never been in jail. NEWSFLASH: i have the wrong body - why should prisoners get sex-change operations paid for - damn it, i should look like the football heroes who are matthew muchnok and tim tebow! i have the talent to be a leading man in a movie, i have the talent to record a duet with madonna, and it is the government's job to see to it that i become a star. if the government is going to pay for any prisoner's sex-change operation, thereby legitimizing one mistaken identity, then who is the government (or anybody) to say which mistaken identities are legitimate enough to spend money on? the government should make me famous ON ACCOUNT OF the way i see myself. do i have to rape a politician's wife with my "slick willie" and go to jail, just so that i'd be set free of my identity crisis? it is the government's job to cater to my slender-identity issues BY SEEING TO IT that medical doctors turn me into the big and strong man that i want to be. it is the government's job to cater to my famous-identity issues BY SEEING TO IT that warner brothers approaches me with a contract to sign. dylan terreri, i www.jaggedlittledyl.com

In the Fall of 2012, I became a home owner for the first time thanks to Fannie Mae. witnessing first hand the important role the GSE's play in creating and maintaining a healthy middle class and economy through home ownership, I invested the remaining of my savings into Fannie Mae.

I have been taught to never give out my SSN. Now that I am on Medicare, my number is used in my doctor's office and is seen by his/her staff. The SSN is no longer private.

There is no legitimate reason to wait for a confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch until the Republican controlled senate takes its seat in January. The current Republican party has proven that it is only concerned about obstruction of the administration's agenda, regardless of the will of the people or what is best for the country. The President is also entitled to seat a cabinet of his choosing, unless a fair hearing shows the nominee to be unable to do the job or they have a lack of integrity. There is precious little evidence that any nominee of President Obama will receive a fair hearing by a Senate led by Mitch McConnell. "My first priority is making this president a one-term president" - Mitch McConnell on the occasion of President Obama's inauguration.

To change karaoke...? People in Europe, and people who work on Saturdays (like Scraner) would be able to come to karaoke if this happens :D

Our fathers fought against communist in the Congo, Africa. They have never been recognized publicly for what we believe is the only war we have won. A lot of our fathers never came home and we now ask for the proper recognition for their bravery in helping our country maintain the freedom for which we came here. They are our families and our country's heroes and deserve the highest honors as any other heroes of American wars.