The New York Times regularly reports budget numbers with zero context. They write that a program "costs $700 billion over 10 years" or "saves $150 million" without indicating what percentage of the total that is or giving a meaningful comparison. Since most people don't have any idea that the federal government will spend $50 trillion over the next decade, these are just giant numbers--indistinguishable from one another--to most people. It's gotten so bad that the Times misreported the cost of food stamps by a factor of 10--they wrote $760 billion, but meant $75 billion--and neither the reporter nor the editors noticed; they had to issue a correction. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/politics/fraud-used-to-frame-farm-bill-debate.html)

Connecticut has the second highest electricity rates in the country, and United Illuminating has the highest electricity rates in state. But now they are asking the state to let them raise their rates 12% over the next 2 years. The rate hikes would net United Illuminating $95 million over two years, which would cover the company's plan to increase its profits and would raise electric bills for its 325,000 customers. Tell United Illuminating its wrong to raise rates so they can increase their profits!

These are NOT Lps they are BARBIE DOLL toys !!!!! Stand up for what's right! Theese new Lps r CRAP. Ya I said it CRAP!! We need the 2005-20012 not the 2013 barbies !!!

Thousands of cats and dogs entering the NYC Animal Care & Control Shelter System are killed in a broken, archaic, money wasting system. Taxpayers and animal loving New Yorkers deserve better! The No Kill Equation is sweeping the country, saving upwards of 95% of the precious lives in shelters that formerly killed our pets. New York should be a model for the country, saving lives and money with a new paradigm. It's time to take killing off the table! Time to get the poor, abused carriage horses out of traffic, heat, snow and car fumes. That's what we want from the next Mayor of New York!

In ancient Roman law, ambitus was a crime of political corruption, mainly a candidate's attempt to influence the outcome of an election through bribery or other forms of soft power. The Latin word ambitus is the origin of the English word "ambition," which is another of its original meanings; ambitus was the process of "going around and commending oneself or one's protégés to the people," an activity liable to unethical excesses.[1] In practice, bringing a charge of ambitus against a public figure became a favored tactic for undermining a political opponent. -- Wikipedia

This is a petition to legitimize our nation’s association with HARRY POTTER. Our nation has a national anthem and a national past time, but we do not have a national text of heritage. HARRY POTTER is the one book that has unified our faith as a nation in the living WIZARD. HARRY POTTER has been historically attached to our nation, from the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock, to educating Slaves on America’s Underground Railroad and even so today. HARRY POTTER's place throughout American history is that inheritance and our nation’s legacy should be to acknowledge this text with such an honorable title and declaration.

Thousands of Philippine American families are forced to wait over 20 years to reunite siblings. Uncles and Aunts are often never given the opportunity of consideration for immigration to join families in the US. It is unfair and inhumane to give Latinos that entered in the US illegally to become legal immigrants cutting in line ahead of Philippine immigrants that have followed the rules. The average wait for my brother to be considered for US immigration is 23 years, why should ALL illegal Latinos be allowed to jump ahead in 13 years?

n26 which only has three trips in AM from Jamaica Bus Terminal to Great Neck Station, and while PM trip with last bus ending at 5pm heading from Great Neck Station to Jamaica. This is problem for many businesses in Great Neck, where people want last 5pm n26 to Jamaica to leave at 5:15pm or add one more trip like 5:15 or 5:20pm as last bus.

Senator Burr is effectively standing in the way of students who will see their student loan interest rates double on July 1st if Congress doesn't act to keep them low. In a floor debate with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) objected to voting on a proposal that would keep interest rates low for the next two years. Instead, he's in favor of a "fix" that could see student loan interest rates skyrocket and create more debt for Americans -- much more than if student loan interest rates were allowed to double.

At a time when nearly three-quarters of all U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis are being conducted by private corporations, we as a country have approached perilously close to what Franklin D. Roosevelt described as "the essence of fascism." In light of recent disturbing public disclosures concerning the extent of intelligence gathering activities undertaken by U.S. governmental agencies hand-in-hand with corporate partners, both at home and abroad, it is clear that the time has come for us, as citizens and elected representatives, to take a cold, hard look at the behavior and practices that have developed from that partnership.

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Please, Governor Cuomo, don't try to raise money from he Paul Simon concert. it offends me. I have always held you in high regard. Nona Young New Portland, ME 04961