My heart lives with the Krab and I cannot handle a meal without it, let alone a semester.

Saturday Night Live recently announced that Donald Trump would serve as host of the program on November 7, 2015, one year from the 2016 general election. The popular comedy show, which has been criticized for not adequately representing Latinos, is broadcasted by NBC - the same network that terminated its relationship with Donald Trump over his derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants. Now, just three months after cutting ties with Donald Trump, NBC is seeking to boost its ratings at the expense of Latinos and immigrants by allowing Trump to host one of its most popular shows. By inviting Donald Trump to host Saturday Night Live, NBC is demonstrating that it doesn’t care about its Latino and pro-immigrant viewers. It is providing a platform for Trump’s insulting attacks on immigrants and calling it entertainment -- something we do not find funny. It is shameful for NBC to allow Donald Trump to host Saturday Night Live, a comedy show when one of the main policies he has promised would rip apart millions of immigrant and Latino families. NBC cannot bill hateful rhetoric as comedy, much less entertainment. Tell NBC to drop Donald Trump as host of Saturday Night Live!

I join Equality Virginia and other fair-minded Americans in writing you in regards to your treatment of John Murphy. This country has a long and important history of upholding religious freedom. That right, which has preserved everyone’s ability to worship and believe as they choose, should not be repurposed to allow individuals or institutions to impose harm on others. A life-long Catholic, Mr. Murphy was hired by a lay governing board as the Executive Director of the St. Francis Home. The Home is run by lay employees and admission is open to all qualifying people over 50 without preference or discrimination based on race, creed, religion, gender, or country of origin. Upon receiving his employee benefits paperwork, you ordered his dismissal because he has a same-sex spouse. Religious organizations have a protected right to make decisions about hiring and firing people who are ministers, and can teach or spread faith free from government interference. But for positions that do not involve ministerial duties, such as leading the St. Francis Home, our longstanding laws against discrimination apply to both religious and secular organizations. Most Americans, including a majority of Catholics, are shocked that you would fire Mr. Murphy solely because of who he loves. Employees should be judged on their qualifications, experience and the job they do – nothing more, and nothing less.

There was a gunman on the loose near my granddaughters nursery school outside Sacramento last October. My daughter and her husband went through hell waiting for the gunman to be caught.

One of our best hopes in the fight against climate change is the massive explosion of rooftop solar, which has more than tripled since 2010! But multi-billionaire, Warren Buffett, has launched a full scale attack on the rooftop solar market in Utah. Buffett, through Rocky Mountain Power — a utility that his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate owns — is urging the state’s Public Service Commission (PUC) to add a range of fees on homeowners who qualify for the state’s net metering program. The PUC rejected the proposal last year, but Rocky Mountain Power is now pushing for a reconsideration of Utah’s net metering program and claims that regulators should not consider environmental benefits of the program, despite the fact that Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s climate pledge states exactly the opposite. Public hearings just occurred and the Public Utilities Commission is deliberating now -- a final decision is currently pending. Rocky Mountain Power claims that net metering raises costs for other users, even though studies have shown exactly the opposite. But Buffett’s real reason is much more self-centered: rooftop solar cuts into the profits of his utility. If the changes Buffett seeks go through, they would destroy the solar market in Utah, costing thousands of jobs and slowing the fight against climate change.

We need a reasonably priced grocery store in our neighborhood.

I've started this petition because my younger daughter will be allowed to ride the school bus for K-2 (starting next year) but my 3rd grader has aged out. The bus stops on our corner with empty seats. I have since been hearing a ton of anecdotal evidence about parents in similar situations. Let's apply some common sense to bussing!

The students of the American Indian Association at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) would like to call attention to the Christopher Columbus statue on the campus of UAB. In school, we are taught that he was the brave hero who discovered the Americas, but the legacy of Columbus is not one to be celebrated. In reality, the effects of Columbus's colonization severely harmed the Native American population and led to the genocide of millions. This led to historical discrimination and mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples that still remains today. Columbus is not a representative of diversity, but he is instead a representative of white-washed American history. The Columbus statue is located on the terrace of the UAB Smolian International House. UAB is one of the top ranking universities in the United States of America for diversity and this statue represents neither UAB nor our current diversity. We suggest that the UAB administrators, faculty, students, and staff remove this statue and replace it with a statue that better represents the diversity of our campus! Please sign your name and list your zip code on our petition, which we will present to the UAB administrators, faculty, students, and staff.

HOUSE BILL 1892 - MA Insurance Coverage for Natural Healthcare - Sponsored by Representative Garrett Bradley and Senator Jason Lewis THANK YOU! Dear Legislator, 3/12/15 I think it’s time for a change in Massachusetts. I believe in preventive healthcare, and since I am required to pay for “health insurance” I think insurance companies should be required to cover services provided by naturopathic and holistic practitioners. I am in your district and would like you to stand up for Natural Healthcare. House Bill 1892 which is in The Joint Committee of Public Health deserves your support. Respectfully,

Dangerous precedents are being set. Trucks are hauling redwoods out on an hourly basis, day and night in California. Wineries are intruding where we need erosion control. They are in direct conflict with the health of the Gualala River with their toxic runoff, as well as other watersheds north of the bay area. Redwoods are an endemic species, that is, found growing no where else naturally but California. If the redwoods interfere with vineyards, vineyards can go somewhere else, anywhere nearly, and grow grapes. California is a great asset to the states, and to the world at large.

Neighbors and I are getting sick and uncleanliness is a health concern.

In their rush to extract every last drop of gas from the shale fields of West Virginia, Dominion and their allies have kicked off a race to build four new pipeline projects across the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia. Each of these projects would trigger more fracking, destroy our neighbors’ lands, require dangerous new compressor stations, and unleash a new pulse of greenhouse gas pollution. Together, these projects -- Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Appalachian Connector, and the WB Xpress Project -- would be an absolute disaster for our climate and communities. That’s why the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, alongside allies like the Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Virginia Sierra Club, the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, and dozens of local groups, is calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to complete a single, comprehensive regional review of the impacts of ALL FOUR fracked gas pipelines. Left to its own devices, we know that FERC will evaluate these pipelines in a vacuum. But the only way to understand the true cost of these dangerous projects is to evaluate them together. In fact, FERC has a legal obligation to do a single, comprehensive review of ALL related projects in a single geographic region. Dominion filed its federal application to build the 564-mile, $5.1 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline in mid-September. A joint venture of companies led by EQT Partners filed their application for the second major pipeline, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, in mid-October. We need to speak out now. This is our chance to hold FERC accountable, and derail an unprecedented expansion of fracked gas infrastructure across our beautiful region.