There may be conservatives who will love our message! Why are we silencing our candidates? There are deadlines in some states for changing party affiliation! Our party needs to be heard right away! And often! Any suppression of free speech is Un-American!

We are working toward making the inner city a safer and healthier environment with more space for urban gardens, areas for children to get outdoors and be more physically active, space for elders to safely take a stroll, more exposure to nature, decreased traffic flow in neighborhoods and more. This can be done by converting some of the neighborhood streets into green space. This plan is exploring integrating geothermal energy in order to lower the cost of heating and cooling and lower greenhouse gases. Basically we are working from the ground up, toward healthier neighborhoods and a healthier planet.

The hats are so expensive.

If the Fireworks Safety Act of 2011 is repealed, the state would be losing out on money. It would also make people lose their jobs and the unemployment rate would go up, and it would also create more abandoned buildings in the state since the firework stores would have to go out of business.

Recently, Joe Scarborough -- the host of MSNBC’s morning show “Morning Joe” -- criticized Jorge Ramos’, one of the most respected journalists within Spanish language media, after challenging Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Scarborough even went so far as to offensively suggest that Jorge Ramos was just trying to get his “15 minutes of fame.” Such comments show just how out of touch MSNBC is with the rest of America. But it get’s worse. Instead of reprimanding Scarborough’s biased reporting on Jorge Ramos exchange with Donald Trump, MSNBC is rewarding him by expanding his show at the expense of one of our community’s most respected Latino journalists, José Díaz-Balart. According to Mediaite, MSNBC is planning to cut José Díaz-Balart’s 9-11 a.m. show “The Rundown” as it shuffles its morning line up. This move, which would take José Díaz-Balart off the anchor chair, effectively cancels the only show hosted by a Latino on MSNBC. José Díaz-Balart built his career at Telemundo and has strong ties to the immigrant and latino communities, but now MSNBC may be ending his show just so that they can give an extra hour to “Morning Joe.” Every morning, José Díaz-Balart reports the facts about immigrant contributions in the United States. He’s a critical voice for millions of immigrant families across the country. As a journalist, it has been José Díaz-Balart who has spoken to President Obama about his executive actions, challenged Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, and has consistently spoken to DREAMers about their advocacy efforts. MSNBC cannot have it both way - they cannot claim to be a reliable cable news network, while silencing journalists like José Díaz-Balart.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently asserted that the Iran nuclear agreement “isn’t the start of some broader diplomatic opening” with Iran. [1] Clinton was wrong to try to foreclose the possibility of a broader improvement in the U.S.–Iran relationship, which could help resolve regional conflicts, saving many innocent lives. To try to rule out a broader improvement in the U.S.–Iran relationship is something that President Obama and Vice-President Biden have not done and would not do. Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering has argued that the successful negotiation of the Iran nuclear agreement could present an opportunity for the United States to coordinate more openly with Iran on mutual interests in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, noting that the U.S. is already coordinating with Iran in Iraq. [2] In the wake of televised images of the Syrian war refugee crisis, there have been new calls to “do something” [3] about the Syrian civil war. Unfortunately, “something,” for pro-war voices, means more bombing and more killing. A better idea, more likely to succeed, is to use more diplomacy and more politics to achieve a political agreement involving as many political actors in Syria as possible and as many involved countries as possible – including Iran. We should use diplomacy with Iran to help end Syria’s civil war – just as we used diplomacy to address the problem of Iran’s nuclear program. Urge the Obama Administration and Congress to support direct talks with Iran to help end Syria’s civil war by signing our petition. References: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/09/today-in-politics-clinton-to-weigh-in-on-iran-deal-as-trump-and-cruz-try-to-crush-it/ 2. http://www.us-iran.org/news/2015/9/5/hon-board-member-thomas-pickering-discusses-possibility-of-us-iran-cooperation; http://www.c-span.org/video/?327950-1/discussion-iran-nuclear-deal 3. http://fair.org/home/the-syrian-refugee-crisis-and-the-do-something-lie/

A new study from Penn State painted a bleak picture for Pennsylvania on climate change: we can expect an average 5.4 degree increase in temperature, making our state more like Washington DC by the year 2050. This means increased smog and asthma attacks, more insect-borne diseases like West Nile virus, threats to drinking water from flooding, and the list goes on. The evidence of human-induced climate change and its disastrous impacts is undeniable. And 436 Pennsylvania experts just agreed: now is the time to act. Now is the time to slash carbon pollution from power plants. But instead of acting, Senator Toomey has continued down the path of climate change denial, questioning humans' impact on global warming and actively fighting efforts to slash power plant pollution. Tell Senator Toomey his choice is now: stand with you and 436 experts on climate, or with polluters and their special interests.

Children who are bullied do not want to use the multi-person facilities in a school (i.e. Restrooms, Locker Rooms) more often than not because that's where bullying often happens. In any area where the attackers can isolate from public view their acts on the one being attacked, they can bully with freedom. This isn't just true for the transgender child; it's for any child seen as different by someone else and harassment begins. {Single Person Restrooms} is so easy a problem! Too easy a problem not to resolve right now, TODAY! A child in elementary school shouldn't be expected to stand up to attackers, because by law we've forced them to be there. No child of any age should be expected to defend themselves, because by law we forced them to be there. Can we at least agree on that? Regardless of your moral opinion about transgender adults, ALL CHILDREN HAVE TO BE PROTECTED if we wish to call ourselves a loving society. This shouldn't have to stand up to debate. It simply needs to be done. Erica Elizabeth Ravenwood - for The TransgenderMovement.com http://www.thetransgendermovement.com/

My husband is a Special Forces veteran, a former member of the 82nd Airborne. He supports this issue as well; he was trained as a sniper and believes in gun control.

As a student studying Social Work, I have recently been made aware of the problems that Optum has created within the mental health field. I have witnessed first hand the additional "hoops" individuals, most often children, who qualify for Medicaid now have to jump through in order to receive mental health care, and many times services needed are denied. Along with not providing services to vulnerable populations in need, Optum is not reimbursing providers properly, which could lead to the deterioration of mental health care in Idaho. In order to help those in need and protect mental health care providers, Idaho must not sign another contract with Optum.

This petition exists to protect a book informing Penn State students about an issue affecting their state

We have so many working parents who need childcare support so that they can work. Many parents are low income families, if the childcare support is cut, these families will not be able to work because they will not be able to afford childcare cost.