Although many people know the origin of the puppies sold at wvpuppy.com are out of state private breeding facilities, some still do not and innocently buy a pet thinking that they are helping that puppy. Recently, a shipment of puppies was seized by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department and Berkeley County Animal Control and the Journal reported on it. However after a short break, they began again to advertise this "business." We are asking the Classified section to stop running ads for wvpuppy.com and any other pet stores in the area that sell puppies. 95 % of these puppies are "cash crops" originating in out of state puppy mills that are then brokered to local pet stores.

Animal kill shelters they need to go we need to save these fur babies we need to get rid of these places as a huge animal advocate and there voice these places are inhumane

State park officials are pushing a tourist train that would run right through your neighborhood. We're asking for City Hall to adopt a resolution declaring the City's indefinite opposition to the tourist train through our neighborhoods. Over 100 signatures have already been gathered by your neighbors. Join them and send a message to city and state parks officials to let them know that we WILL NOT allow this.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

My petition is to put more strength in the power of saving and being a powerful organization that would have over 50 -horse rescue and associated animal activist organizations from all over the U.S. and North American/ South American Continent, with affliliates in Europe, the Far East, Asia, and the continents as Australia!

As a part of the UCI club figure skating team it would make it much easier for our practices and I believe the revenue from the students as well as the public would be substantial. I also believe it would be something that makes UCI stand out from other UC'S. In addition to its revenue, the rink would provide a great opportunity for a wider range in work-study positions for UCI's students. There are many suggestions that ice rinks continue to be successful in revenue. For example, one news report for Tuscaloosa last winter stated that "a total of 13,031 tickets had been sold for an overall income of $130,607" in just one winter season. Although this would be an expensive project, UCI already has plans for future projects that could be replaced with this rink, some of these projects costing over $50 million, one of which is a student housing expansion project. The rink would be a great replacement, the students at UCI feel the current amount of student housing is sufficient and a rink would be much more beneficial. The funds are there, but UCI is spending it on renovations elsewhere. (Other future construction plans including a list of costs can be found here http://www.designandconstruction.uci.edu/documents/Capital_Projects.pdf ) As previously stated, students and alum of UC, Irvine believe that this rink would bring more national and regional recognition to our university and our community. The way in which the ice rink is capable of bringing this recognition is through tournaments, conventions, meetings, etc. With an ice rink on campus, we can excel in collegiate figure skating and will give the opportunity for those interested in ice hockey to re-start the ice hockey club sport here. Also, a national or regional USA hockey or US Figure Skating event will bring teams/contestants from across the nation to this facility. This will not only bring our community and school recognition, but will also help the other local entertainment businesses, restaurants, and hotels in our area.

Only six days until Moogfest. Please sign!

Do not pass s.221. In the state of Vermont there is one Fraternity and Sorority community, that of the University of Vermont, all of whom are nonprofit organizations. While fraternity and sorority life is only eight percent of students we give over 21,000 hours of service per year to the local community. If this bill passes we will be unable to maintain our housing due to cost and will lose the resources we have to be a strong community and continue to serve Burlington.

Under the current DOT proposal to widen 6th Street, the historic district in our city would likely lose its entire canopy of 39 trees. Our city leaders have expressed their deep concerns about the project. Let's join them in urging DOT to address concerns about public safety on 6th Street in ways that don't so drastically affect home and business owners, the loveliness of the city's historic district, or the quality of life in the neighborhood. NOTE: DUE TO THE ACTIVITY ON THIS PETITION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP IT "LIVE" UNTIL SIGNATURES ARE NO LONGER BEING ADDED. THANKS, EVERYONE!

If the Columbus Board of Education does not act very soon, the "Annex" could be torn down as early as April 29th. I live up the street and want to live in a neighborhood and a city that maintain the character that comes with the limited number of historic structures that exist in our relatively young city. Many other important points have also been raised: - The "Annex" could be used for education. Lottery students are already turned away because of lack of space at the high performing Clinton Elementary - less lottery students means less diversity and shared prosperity. Plus, many feel the neighborhood is growing and we very well may need to accommodate more families with young children. Keeping the building gives us flexibility. - The "Annex" could be used for other purposes. There are clear needs for day care and preschool facilities in the neighborhood, the space could be used for other community needs, entertainment, and more. - Even if there is no immediate use or immediate funding, we should be looking at the bigger picture and longer term. - It is likely to cost less to renovate the current space than to build new, as many assume will be needed due to the popularity and success of the school and the neighborhood. Folks who sign this petition may not agree with every one of these points, but do agree that we should stop the demolition now, before it's too late.

UPDATE: We are currently in Day 9 of our sit-in at Washington University. I’ve learned many things in my four years at Washington University in St. Louis--not all of them in the classroom. For example, before I became a student at Wash U, I had never heard of Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal corporation. In St. Louis, Peabody ingratiates itself to the local community by posing as a benefactor of the arts, charitable corporate ‘citizen,’ and hero tackling “energy poverty.” It all sounds pretty good until you realize that Peabody Energy is the world’s largest private sector coal corporation whose business model propagates climate change and destroys communities. Peabody’s list of crimes is a veritable laundry list of social and environmental injustices: the destruction of mountains in West Virginia, the forced relocation of Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes in Black Mesa, Arizona, being a major supporter of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which have been strong advocates of controversial legislation like “Stand Your Ground” laws, the destruction of Rocky Branch, Illinois through aggressive mining and logging, and the distortion of democracy here in St. Louis by striking down a city-wide ballot initiative. Peabody CEO Greg Boyce also holds one more distinction: member of the Washington University Board of Trustees. Since Boyce was placed on the board in 2009, students have been actively organizing against Peabody Energy’s presence on campus. We have demanded that Boyce be removed from the Board of Trustees and that the University change the name of the “Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization,” a research entity to which Peabody and Arch Coal donated $5,000,000. We have met with the Chancellor -- multiple times. We have dropped banners at coal events, peacefully disrupted speeches by Greg Boyce on campus, marched through campus and taken our demands to Peabody’s headquarters. We have protested with residents from Black Mesa, collected signatures for the Take Back St. Louis ballot initiative and rallied with the United Mine Workers in their fight against Peabody. But, five years later, Boyce is still on the board, the name of the Clean Coal Consortium remains unchanged, and Chancellor Wrighton continues to stand behind Peabody Energy. Indeed, just this week he emailed us saying, “your opinion that peabody energy behaves in an ‘irresponsible and unjust manner’ is not one that I share.” The Administration has successfully used a “deny by delay” process by holding town hall meetings and developing task forces around renewable energy and energy efficiency while ignoring the role that coal plays on the campus. Thus, like many campus divestment campaigns across the country, we are at a crossroads. We’ve decided that it’s time to escalate to let Chancellor Wrighton and Greg Boyce know that we’re running out of time and we’re not going to back down. We are engaging in a sit-in of our admissions office to tell Chancellor Wrighton that our university can no longer legitimize destructive fossil fuel corporations. By having Greg Boyce on the Board of Trustees and hosting the “Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization,” the University is propagating the lie that coal is clean. But people who live in the communities where Peabody mines, including Black Mesa and Rocky Branch, know that coal is never clean. Escalating on campus is scary. We know it is going to be divisive. We know our Chancellor fundamentally disagrees with us. But not escalating is even scarier. Not escalating means Peabody continues to destroy communities and our climate. And that’s a risk we cannot take. Let Wash U know that you stand with us by signing our petition.

I want to support this concept : "One such visionary is Mindy Levine, the wife of the New York Yankees president, Randy L. Levine. Her proposal is that the horse-drawn carriage business could coexist with riding stables and therapeutic riding facilities — all within the setting of Central Park itself. This would also provide access to equine-assisted therapy for children with autism and for the rehabilitation of troubled teenagers." quote from Liam Neeson NYT Op-Ed.