The simple fact that the people should have the sole power to elect our representatives for both legislative and executive branches invalidates the need for super delegates and an electoral college. Only the popular vote should count and as of right now with those systems in place our votes don't technically matter. It is time for that to change.

The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better! We need a newspaper that serves the public good and not its own political agenda. The New Britain Herald and Bristol Press is nothing more than fake journalism that systematically fails to find and seek the truth, that isn't fair and balanced, that plagiarizes, and that's in the pocket of the right wing conservative elite. We deserve a newspaper that serves the community and not one that serves Michael E. Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson!

There has been silence from Congress since 2000 and 2004 when the election counts were hacked and changed. Elections were stolen from the voters. A wise person or persons in Congress must stand up and work to get hand counted ballots in every state. 43 states have voting machines that are over 10 years old, near the end of the life cycles, and could cause long lines and lost votes.

Trying to eat on $16.00 in food stamps is impossible for children, seniors, and all. Let's do something about this crisis.

ABC, NBC, CBS & CNN are engaged in rigging the Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton and obstructing Bernie Sanders. Limiting coverage of Bernie Sanders and the grassroots movement of millions of supporters is violation of "Equal Time Rule", "Public Need to Know" and "Censorship of the People". The pattern to ignore, downplay and mis-characterize Sanders' positions is an attempt to manipulate pubic opinion with intent to subvert the Democratic process. As American citizens, we have the right to a fair election process and for our voices, which number in millions, to be heard.

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To the Office of Civil Rights, Special Litigation, US Department of Justice When it comes to one black woman in Utah, Utah courts intentionally neglect precedence or misinterpret the facts to coerce an outcome on an that immunizes the white, elite of a religious organization and others at the expense of the law. Precedence on Invasion of Privacy Torts is clear -The courts have traditionally investigated this questions in 4 or less steps as necessary. In the case the litigant demanded remedies under 3 of the 4 aspects of the tort, namely: 1. Intrusion of Seclusion 2. False Light 3. Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Facts but Utah 3rd District Court chose to lump all the three aspects of the tort under one claim of Defamation instead of testing and discharging all the different categories as they have done in other cases. In applying this standard, the court must construe all facts and reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. In Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 1356, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986) the I am the person involved in the Invasion of Privacy case that Utah courts failed to view in the light of the case I cite above. Regarding the background information of the case: I requested my daughter's ( then a minor) medical files from Dr. McDonough, who instead of giving the files to me, chose to give them to Bishop Reese of the LDS Holladay 4th Ward. I was very upset about this situation and when I protested the bishop's actions, Kirton & McConkie, an LDS law firm, wrote me a letter that barred me from the Mormon Church property. This letter contained a threat to have me arrested if I did not follow the orders in it. In addition to the order to stay away from the church property, the letter also instructed me to take medication, get counseling and be reviewed by Bishop Poulsen, who would decide whether or when to lift the ban after he had conferred with the law firm. This medication the law firm was instructing me to take was Lamictal, prescribed to me by an IHC Nurse Clinician;this was a major misdiagnosis whose prescription had horrible side effects. A few years later, Dr DeCaria successfully diagnosed me with PTSD--brought about by a traumatic war and violence in Southern Africa--and said no medication was necessary for my condition. I filed a 3-prong Invasion of Privacy claim and you can follow it here with the documents that I filed with the various courts: I initially filed this case in the Federal District Court where the court decided they would not hear the case or exercise what they termed "supplemental jurisdiction". I then filed the case in the Third District Court where the court lumped all the 3 parts of the case under "Defamation". It was Kirton & McConkey attorneys who decided that the entire Invasion of Privacy Claim be lumped under "Defamation". I disagree. Defendants, Kirton & McConkey included, obtained my family's private medical files from the health practitioners without my permission. This is a claim on its own. Then they brought this information to publicity. This is another aspect of the claim. The ultimate result of their unlawful activity was to present me in poor light. That is the third aspect of this tort claim. After the Third District dismissed the case under "Defamation", I requested a hearing in The Utah Court of Appeals to be heard on my claim as I had filed it under 3 prongs. This court returned the case to the lower court where I have requested a hearing over ten times without a response. All I am asking for is a simple hearing. The US courts as well as Utah Courts have a clear history on this type of a tort case, but they are choosing not to follow the rules. Miscategorizing this case in order to immune Mormon and IHC officials involved in this case is not justice. I demand that this case be opened and those who broke the law face justice. Religion and State must be separate in Utah or injustices continue to protect religious duties.

According to a recent observer.com article. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz has ignored 3 Democratic Congressional Candidates and has chosen to support her Republican Colleagues because she calls them "friends and has to work with them in Congress." The ONLY person who has the ability to remove or appoint the next DNC Chair is the Next Democratic President of the United States.

A new CNN poll showed that Sanders had gained 4% since CNN's last poll in November, and Clinton had lost 8%. That totals up to a 12% swing in Sanders' favor, with last night's poll having Clinton up 16% total, 50% to 34% for Bernie Sanders. On CNN's website and television network, they have been hiding the actual poll data by showing "interview results" that have Clinton gaining support after the debate. When CNN got a poll result that showed Bernie Sanders had almost cut Clinton's lead in half, they used data that wasn't even a part of the poll to spin it as great news for Hillary Clinton. Their headline for the poll's article on their website is "CNN poll: Post-debate, voters move to Clinton", their news ticker on TV is only mentioning the "interview results" and not the actual poll results. For more information, you can read this article: http://progressorperil.com/2015/12/24/blatant-clinton-propaganda-from-cnn/

The Most Liveable City in the United States, Pittsburgh, PA means everyone except the poor and African American residents of the City. Disparity rates are the highest in the country on every level. It is time we as the people begin to fight for our rights. As the City of Pittsburgh concentrates in urban revitalization; with all of the development taking place throughout the City, it is noted that there is no protection of residents' rights within the strategies of re-development. There is no clear plan of economic revitalization for the residents of the most vulnerable populations that reside in the most livable city in the United States, the City of Pittsburgh. With multi millions of dollars planned for development, it is vital that disparity rates be addressed. One critical way to address it is by the creation of a Community Benefits Ordinance for the City of Pittsburgh. This Ordinance or Law will reinforce and set in place contractual binding agreements that requires community participation at all tables when it comes to development dollars, financial packages and tax incentives/abatements created for revitalization of the urban communities, and that our participation is required at all levels and planning stages.

If you live in Kentucky, last month you heard some welcome news. If you had a previous felony conviction and served your time you were about to regain your right to vote thanks to an executive order by the outgoing Governor Steve Beshear. That all changed when the new Governor, Matt Bevin, rescinded that executive order, snatching away the promise of restoring the vote. This now means that 140,000 people who are out of prison, living in the community, paying taxes and raising families, remain disfranchised for life. We cannot call on individuals to resume responsibility of citizenship without returning to them their fundamental constitutional rights. One in 5 African Americans in Kentucky have previous convictions, which means that 1 in 5 African Americans in Kentucky are not only unable to vote, but they are also not allowed to serve on a jury or run for office. Preventing individuals from having their voices heard in our democracy, preventing them from representation and the opportunity to represent themselves is a terrible policy. Let Kentucky’s legislators know that - when it comes to democracy - all eyes are on them. When the legislative session starts in January, they have the power to make good on a lost promise; they can act to restore the right to vote for thousands of participating citizens in their state.

African American drop out rates are increasing and graduation rates are decreasing. African American history is not implemented in the school curriculum. We are taught the prominent leaders are Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, yet we still have little knowledge of these leaders and others. We are taught slavery, and civil rights, but they over shadow all of the contributions that have been made to society by African Americans. America’s youth is growing up ignorant. With little knowledge of African American history we are allowing young black kids to grow up thinking they can’t be anything in life aside from a basketball player or rapper. We are giving them little self-esteem to how much potential they truly have. If only we were taught about the people in our history just like us; growing up in poverty, with little education, who still contribute to this nation.