I'm a beekeeper so I am deeply concerned about neonicotinoid pesticides and systemic genetically modified organism acting as honey bee killers are not being properly regulated. I hope state leaders in Pennsylvania's State House are smart enough to eliminate our local PA supermarkets as the end-user delivery systems for pesticides in our food by passing GMO labeling laws in PA. We are being forced to consume toxins without giving our consent. Remember what happened with regard to the hazards of smoking and being exposed to second-hand smoke without consent? Pesticide traces in the urine of children eating conventionally grown produce? Unacceptable. Pesticide traces found in fetal umbilical fluid? Unacceptable. We need GMO labeling laws now. This is the first step in recognizing that the problem of pesticides is a major health threat to human beings, too. I am reaching out to Senator Shirley Kitchen and Senator Peliggi to support Senate Bill 653 in the upcoming legislative session. Please take action. GMO labeling laws in Pennsylvania now.

No one can deny the tough shape of our local roads. The infrastructure must be maintained. It's time to spend some tax dollars on repairing our streets, unless we all want to go backwards to unpaved roads!

NBC Universal co-owns the Miss Universe pageant. On June 18, it was announced that the 2013 competition would be held in November in Moscow, Russia.The announcement came just one week after Russia's legislature unanimously adopted an extreme new law banning “gay propaganda” in order to crack down on its LGBT community. Under the new rules, anyone who is caught showing support for the gay community or LGBT equality can face fines or jail time for promoting gay “propaganda” to minors. Similar laws have already been used to justify violent crackdowns against LGBT people throughout parts of the country, and human rights groups have stated that the measure is in clear violation of international law. Andy Cohen, the openly gay NBC employee/Bravo star, has hosted the Miss Universe pageant for the past two years, but recently backed out of the 2013 event, citing concerns for his own safety and that of participants and spectators. Even NBC’s own employees recognize the problem with hosting an event like this in Russia in light of this new law. Just last year, the Miss Universe pageant changed its rules to allow transgender contestants to compete. The decision to host the pageant in Moscow this year is a giant step backward.

I married my husband July 24th 2013 in NY, on the two year aniversery of marriage licenses being isseued to same-sex couples in that state. My marriage to my husband is not recognized by the state of Texas. This denies us many rights. For example, to insure myself it costs $22/mo. To insure both of us, it costs well over $400/mo! By comparison, straight couples can insure their significant other for $60/mo. This blatant segregation must stop.

"Citizen Koch" was pulled from a national public television broadcast because of fear of upsetting David Koch, who has been a major donor to public television. But public television stations should answer to viewers like me, not to billionaires like the Koch brothers -- and I want to see this important documentary. Will you join the call for a national broadcast of "Citizen Koch" on Independent Lens?

Since when has WUCF public television become WUCF Koch Television censoring broadcast because of David Koch's money and position on the board of PBS...??

I am outraged by the Yahoo! decision to turn off Martin Manley's website. Partly because of his site's potential value to those wishing to better understand and prevent suicide. And partly because, as a fellow author, I have a particular appreciation of what a labor of love it was for Martin to create what he created, hoping that it would be read by a wide audience and ultimately augment the sum total of human happiness. Why is it, I wonder, that Yahoo! saw fit to pay $990 million to buy Tumblr and continue to make its porn available in a manner that enables the circumvention of parental controls (see link) - while censoring Manley? http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/26/tumblr-porn-is-a-bigger-problem-than-yahoo-realizes/

Bay Area New Democrats, a club in the Galveston Bay Area of Houston, supports the candidacy of State Senator Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas.

If a candidate wants us to vote for them, then tell us why by taking the high-road and not sinking so deep in the muck they have to resort to slamming their opponent.

Senior journalist Mike Grunwald tweeted "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Jullian Assange"

Freedom of speech.

Public TV must remain public.