In two weeks the L.A. County Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss a possible moratorium or ban on electronic dance music events, for which they are using the term "raves". L.A. Banning raves does not fix the problem as the events will move elsewhere with possibly less stringent guidelines. We should keep the events, which house both cultural and economic benefits to L.A., within our own county and not jeopardize jobs or condemn county residents who patronize these events to further safety risks by making them drive outside of our county. L.A. City and County has some of the strictest guidelines for event production and has the opportunity to take the lead on a holistic approach to event safety. We, the Electronic Music Alliance (EMA), welcome the participation of our city and county agencies and officials in the development of festival standards EMA has been working on for the past 6 months specific to "raves". EMA is happy to work with L.A. City and County to share expertise and best practices. EMA is a non-profit and global membership alliance of dance music fans, artists and industry idealists encouraging our community to be the "Sound of Change." We organize around issues important to the community like health, safety, greening and giving back to our local communities through charitable works. Save Our Raves --Keep Raves in L.A. Thank you.

Dear Neighbors, The builder has applied at least the 4 times to divert the watercourse by covering a portion of the South Fox Meadow Brook. An approval for anything more than ingress/egress will set a precedent for covering bodies of water throughout Scarsdale. I expect that many of you share the same concerns with respect to the consequences of diverting a watercourse by covering bodies of water. I believe the general welfare of the community is protected by limiting proposed coverage to ingress/egress.

The Charlottesville Cavaliers youth basketball team was knocked out of the annual National Travel Basketball Association (NTBA) annual tournament this past weekend in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, not because they lost, but because one player is a girl. In previous years, 10-year-old Kymora Johnson had always been allowed to play at the NTBA competition with her mixed-gender team, the Charlottesville Cavaliers. This year, the team was on a five-game winning streak, making it to the final four, when the NTBA decided to invoke its brand-new policy that barred Kymora and her team from playing in the tournament. Kymora had gone through the entire registration process, but John Whitley, NTBA president, said they hadn’t noticed Kymora as an active participant of the team. “We have no problem with the girls sitting on the bench,” he said. “We don’t care who sits on the bench with the teams, that goes for anybody … to sit on the bench.” The NTBA’s new rule says girls can play in league games and scrimmages, but not in the national tourney. It’s 2015. The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team has just won its third World Cup title, Serena Williams has just won her sixth Wimbledon title, and just this week, Katie Ledecky has blown through the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle swimming world record. No sport should deny women and girls the chance to compete.

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. We filed a lawsuit challenging the Loafer logging Project in December 2013. In April 2014, in response to WELC’s lawsuit, the Forest Service pulled its proposal, but now it’s back. We are fighting this project because it would not only impact native and endangered species in the short-term, but would preclude some of the last remaining untouched Western forests from wilderness protection.

Shell has the GREEN light and is ready to do some hefty drilling in the Arctic. Top officials from the Obama Administration say that there is a 75 percent chance of a major Arctic Oil Spill. I need your help in urging top officials with the Seattle Port, State of Oregon and United States Department of Interior. Their dangerous drilling machine is ready to leave the Seattle Port and head to the Arctic. Are you ready to make sure it doesn't go anywhere near our ocean and polar bears?

New York City Police Department claims an investigation is in the works regarding this police brutality incident in Staten Island's 122nd precinct . But as yet, NYPD will not say if any disciplinary measures have been taken. The video of the assault is self-evident that these four officers lack the appropriate judgment to safely serve our city's citizens and have no business patrolling the streets of New York City armed with guns and badges. There is nothing that indicates the level of force was appropriate, or that four officers could not have detained the subject without hospitalizing him.

An oil company is proposing to drill in Broward County, only a few miles from the city of Miramar. This oil well would be located in the Florida Everglades and would endanger critical water resources that millions of South Florida residents rely on. This permit is one of several recent proposals to drill in the Florida Everglades. And loopholes in state law allow drilling companies to use fracking techniques to produce more oil and gas, with almost no oversight over the chemicals being injected underground. All forms of drilling and fracking (including hydraulic fracturing, acid fracturing and acid matrix stimulation) are inherently unsafe, especially in Florida where our aquifer is so vital to our livelihoods. In states across the country, the extraction of oil and gas has led to serious health and environmental issues, and communities are taking action by passing ordinances to prevent fracking. Florida state agencies are currently reviewing this drilling proposal, but the Broward County Commissioners can weigh in by passing a binding ordinance prohibiting this well and any future drilling and fracking in the county.

I, and I'm sure many other consumers, would prefer not to do business with this company. I would like choice in delivery service when I order online.

If Big Oil can build pipelines across the country to transport their oil, why can't we build pipelines and canals to transport water from areas of flooding (having too much water) to that of areas of drought (like California right now)? Think of all of the people who could find work building these pipelines and canals. And if there were a spill from a pipeline carrying water, it wouldn't endanger our wildlife or pollute our environment. Please sign this petition! It makes so much more sense than building oil pipelines. Thank You.

Hollywood has a long history of white-washing and crafting White Savior narratives, but this is one step too far. A historically accurate film about the Stonewall Riots would center the stories of queer and gender-nonconforming people of color like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Not relegate them to background characters in the service of a white cis-male fictional protagonist.

I am tired of self serving individuals using their role in our state's government to further their own political careers and lining their own pockets.

If we are to label ourselves "democrats" part of the "democratic" process, then we must open the possibility for candidates like Bernie Sanders to capture America's attention.