1) A Subway franchisee knew about Jared Fogle's sexual interest in children, and alerted Subway executives. Subway executives ignored allegations and did nothing, and continue to deny advanced knowledge. 2) Subway blames his sexual interest in children on his famous "Subway diet", claiming that the rapid loss in weight led to a "hyper-sexualism". In light of these two facts, Subway and Jared should remain inextricably associated with one another as a warming about the restaurant chain's amorality.

I can only imagine choosing to carry my precious 1-year-old daughter, Abigail, as we flee halfway across a continent, and placing her in a rickety boat or rubber dinghy that may not survive the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean Sea, because that ordeal is still safer than staying home. That is exactly the choice parents are making in Syria today. America must be resolute in the face of terror and never allow our enemies to scare us into retreating behind walls and abandoning our values. It is not difficult to imagine a child we reject today fighting alongside the Islamic State years from now. Abandoned in a dangerous and hopeless place, that child could turn into a fighter firing rocket-propelled grenades at American helicopters, just like the one who brought down my Black Hawk 11 years ago this month. We are not powerless in that child's fate. When I was a child, I witnessed the refugee crisis borne out of people fleeing the Khmer Rouge and Pathet Lao in Southeast Asia. I remember families loading all they had into boats and risking everything on the South China Sea. I am proud the U.S. took in refugees during those years, and ever motivated by the knowledge that we could have done more. This is a time for the United States to lead with strength, not fear.

Carl Hulse, reporting for the New York Times on Paul Ryan’s bill that refugee advocates say would effectively suspend the admission of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees to the United States, wrote: “The measure technically does not suspend the refugee program, providing Republicans some cover from criticism they were denying refugees a chance for escape.” [1] But if refugee advocates opposing the bill are correct in their assessments, then Carl Hulse’s reporting was deeply misleading unless you understand the word “technically” to mean “while effectively doing so.” The American Immigration Lawyers Association says the bill “would halt the refugee resettlement program for Iraqis and Syrians.” [2] The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service says the bill “would exclude all Syrian refugees from the protection of the United States resettlement system.” [3] The New York Times’ own editorial board wrote that “people who will be denied resettlement by this bill would be the victims of war, people who have been tortured and threatened by the same jihadists the United States now battles.” [4] Urge the New York Times Public Editor to investigate why the New York Times’ reporting embraced Paul Ryan’s spin that the bill "does not suspend the refugee program" by signing our petition. References: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/19/paul-ryan-steers-refugee-bill-and-some-cover-to-a-house-vote/ 2. http://www.aila.org/advo-media/aila-correspondence/2015/aila-vote-recommendations-hr-4038 3. https://secure2.convio.net/lirs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=215#.Vk39Eq6rRE6 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/opinion/refugees-from-war-arent-the-enemy.html

As citizens of Troy we no longer have a city hall that is our own. We do have one of the most beautiful buildings in the city as our public library. Let's keep it that way. Please sign this petition and ask your friends to sign... Thanks.

Watching what happened in Paris was a heartbreaking reminder of how important it is that we stand together as a country united against terrorism, and remember what makes America great. But far too many Republicans like Senator Ted Cruz have rushed to use those attacks as an excuse to block Syrian refugees from entering our country. He just introduced a bill that would block refugees from any country "that contains territory substantially controlled by a foreign terrorist organization." These individuals are escaping the very same terrorism that the world witnessed this week in Paris and Beirut. Thousands of Syrians have been killed, millions have been displaced, and countless livelihoods have been destroyed by the likes of ISIS (or "Daesh") and the Assad regime. Simply turning our backs on refugees fleeing political and religious persecution is not the American way. Sign the petition if you agree, and tell Congress to oppose Senator Cruz's misguided, reckless plan.

It is unbelievable that these companies are almost completely unregulated. While Californians are forced to face mandatory water restrictions, these plants don’t abide by any. In many cases, companies that bottle water, such as Nestle and Coca-Cola, buy their product straight from municipal supplies (essentially from the tap) - often at the same rate charged to residential or commercial customers (99 cents per 748 gallons from Sacramento municipal water district).[3] This type of business practice gives bottled water companies a financial incentive to draw as much water as they please, then in turn sell it back to customers for huge profits. A lack of statewide groundwater regulations means that anyone who builds a well can basically pump as much water as they like.[4] Water is a precious resource. Californians realize this now more than ever. According to NASA, California could potentially have less than a year left of water and then it’s gone. These companies don’t seem to understand this. They bottle up the limited amount of water we have and sell it back to us for a profit; a process that requires between 1.32 and 1.63 liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water.[5] [6]These companies take water from communities that rely on their wells. When their wells go dry as a result, they are forced to buy bottled water to survive. Nestle argues that they won't halt bottling production because “people need to drink water,” and because doing so “won't fix the drought.”[7] [8] Yes, people need water to survive. But do they need companies to pump water from their own state? No. These companies could move to other states, like Starbucks - who recently decided to move production of its Ethos bottled water to Pennsylvania.[9] So why don’t they? Because other states have more regulations. California is just a money-making scheme. For example, Crystal Geyser recently purchase a plant in Siskiyou County.[10] They could have moved to a new state that is not in a drought, but they chose to stay in California. Most likely due to the lack of regulation. One further example is the fact that Nestle has been piping spring water from the San Bernardino National Forest with a permit that expired 27 years ago, which is still pending renewal.[11] This process of piping spring water from a national forest is being carried out with little to no oversight from the US Forest service, which has resulted in rising concerns regarding potential impacts on the ecosystem and wildlife population.[12] Another entity (besides Nestle) who have come to the defense of bottled water companies is the IBWA (International Bottled Water Association). Their arguments include the fact that the water used by bottled water companies only amounts to 0.002% of the water used in California; a figure which pales in comparison to agriculture, which consumes 80%, and residential use, which consumes 13%.[13] However, we counter that these types of arguments amount to faulty logic. If all consumers of water used this line of reasoning and refused to do their fair share of conservation efforts, then California's drought woes will never be solved. Furthermore, the arguments used by Nestle and IBWA do not take into account the potential environmental and ecological impacts that their activity poses. Advocacy groups such as Courage Campaign have done a great job in raising awareness concerning the business and sourcing practices used by Walmart and Nestle through collecting petition signatures, organizing protests and pushing for legal action. For the purposes of our efforts, we wish to expand our focus to six major bottling companies, which continue to tap into California’s scarce resources in drought stricken regions. These bottlers/distributors are Arrowhead (Nestle), Crystal Geyser, Great Value (Walmart), Dasani (Coca-Cola), Aquafina (Pepsi), and Niagara. Join with us as we demand that California lawmakers impose stricter regulations on bottled water companies. Companies such as Coca-Cola should not be allowed to draw as they please from municipal supplies while the rest of California is forced to comply with mandatory restrictions, and companies such as Nestle and Crystal Geyser should not be allowed to draw spring water until the full impact their practices on the environment and wildlife are properly assessed. [1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Crystal-Geyser-to-tap-Siskiyou-County-groundwater-6253314.php [2] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/15/californians-pressure-retail-giants-to-stop-bottling-water-during-drought.html [3] http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/bottled-water-california-drought [4] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Crystal-Geyser-to-tap-Siskiyou-County-groundwater-6253314.php [5] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/15/californians-pressure-retail-giants-to-stop-bottling-water-during-drought.html [6] http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/bottled-water-california-drought [7] http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/26/news/companies/california-bottled-water-drought/ [8] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/ban-bottled-water-industry-scrutinized-parched-california-n357256 [9] http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article21049293.html [10] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Crystal-Geyser-to-tap-Siskiyou-County-groundwater-6253314.php [11] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/ban-bottled-water-industry-scrutinized-parched-california-n357256 [12] http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/03/05/bottling-water-california-drought/24389417/ [13] http://www.bottledwater.org/

Governor Walker has said that Wisconsin will not take any Syrian refugees. This is the greatest exodus of refugees since the end of World War ll.. Americans, except for Native Am. are all immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants or refugees, it is our human duty to help.

People's lives are more important than the flow of money from gun manufacturers to the NRA to politicians.

Post production costs are taken out of royalties, gouging landowners.

There are many Alabamians and citizens of other states who take pride in being among the people of our nation who do not baselessly judge others based on color, race, religion and/or national origin. Please hear our pleas and support a position that is in accord with the American tradition of being open to people of the world who are in need. Only through tolerance, kindness, and support can we defeat the rise of hatred and violence that is occurring in the world today.

My daughter Angela attends Maryhaven Center of Hope, which does a wonderful job providing disabled adults a place to work along with supportive education and counseling. The Federal Government is trying to take away Medicaid funding for these Sheltered Workshops, and close down all Sheltered Workshops for the disabled in the United States.

In July, 2014, the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) found that New Hope Crushed Stone (NHCS)’s mining activities are creating a public nuisance, and that the PA DEP has a duty to abate and remove public nuisances. On September 11, 2014, the department issued a Technical Deficiency to NHCS, and subsequently issued additional requests for detailed reclamation plans. NHCS has repeatedly failed to comply with this directive. In the last 13 months, NHCS has proposed a reclamation plan which was based on minable reserves rather than addressing the public nuisance issue; this was deemed unacceptable by the DEP. NHCS then claimed they were in compliance; also rejected by the DEP. After several back-and-forth correspondence and meetings, the DEP took the unusual step of issuing a Compliance Order, requiring compliance by October 30. Days before that deadline, NHCS claimed that a change in their management necessitated an extension, despite the fact that over 13 months had passed since DEP initially directed them to comply. The DEP yet again granted them another extension to November 30. Meanwhile the quarry continues to operate, new sinkholes continue to form, and the safety of the public is at risk. Just this week (11/16/15), an emergency permit was issued to repair a sinkhole in Primrose Creek. So far no one has been injured or killed, but the township and its residents simply can’t afford to continue to take these risks. The time for concrete and specific action is here – no more extensions – the quarry must be ordered to comply or halt operations. Enough is enough!