The Philadelphia School District needs to close its budget gap. The City of Philadelphia's solution is to raise real estate taxes again on working men and women. Property owners of new homes should pay their fair share for our public schools.

Everyone deserves the same fair and equal treatment, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "Open to the public" should mean open to everyone, fairly and equally. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania it is still completely legal to be turned away from a business, fired from a job, or evicted from a home just for being gay or transgender. Polls show that 74% of voters in Pennsylvania agree that no one should be discriminated against for being gay or transgender, and voters agree that there should be a law to protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Our state legislature has been considering an update to the nondiscrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity for more than a decade. The time has come to update the nondiscrimination laws of the commonwealth. Sign our petition to the PA State Legislature and tell them to end legal discrimination against gay and transgender people now.

The EPA recently released its long-awaited study of fracking's impacts on drinking water. The oil and gas industry cheered the topline findings highlighted in the EPA's own press release that accompanied the study, which read: “Assessment shows hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts to drinking water resources and identifies important vulnerabilities to drinking water resources.” The industry -- and the media -- ran with this statement and concluded that fracking is safe. This takeaway offered by the EPA was grossly misleading. The EPA's press release made a subtle but enormously consequential change to the actual findings of the study. What the study actually shows is that, at every turn, the effort of EPA scientists to quantify the extent of fracking's impacts on drinking water resources was thwarted by "data limitations and uncertainties." Despite those limitations and uncertainties — including some of the EPA's own making — the study still confirms what existing scientific data and countless personal experiences have already made clear: fracking does indeed contaminate drinking water resources in numerous ways. (for full assessment: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/how-the-release-of-the-epas-draft-assesment-on-drinking-water-impacts-was-spun/) Tell EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that it is her responsibility to correct this misleading statement in the press release and to instead emphasize the very troubling findings of her agency's report.

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I want to get all of America--starting with my home state of Georgia-- to build wildlife bridges for our wildlife. Nearly every day in the area in which I live I pass dead animals on the road and it is unnecessary and cruel. If we can set aside money for tax cuts and wars, pork spending for pet projects and so much else, we can help our wildlife so that biodiversity is preserved and future generations have the chance to enjoy God's incredible creatures.

While America has dropped thousands of bombs, deployed 3,500 troops, and spent billions of dollars in our latest war in Iraq and Syria, Congress has failed to perform its basic constitutional responsibility to debate and vote on the war. Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Barbara Lee (D-CA) are standing up to demand that Congress do its job. Invoking a key provision of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, they have introduced a privileged resolution, H.Con.Res.55, which would force the House of Representatives to debate and vote on the war. If Congress continues to shirk its constitutional duty to debate and vote on the war, the McGovern-Jones-Lee Resolution would bring our troops home. However one feels about the latest war in the Middle East, we should all agree that it is long past time for Congress to do its constitutional duty and debate and vote on the war. Urge your representative to support McGovern, Jones, and Lee in opposing endless and unauthorized war by signing our petition.

On June 19 in Tallahassee, the Acquisition and Restoration Council will meet to consider this issue. Your help is needed to secure the purchase of Gilchrist Blue Springs by the state in order to insure its preservation and protection for the enjoyment of all citizens

On the night of Monday June 15, The Hill reported: [1] "House GOP leaders are punting on voting again on President Obama's trade agenda, possibly until the end of July. After Friday's failed vote to pass aid for workers displaced by trade deals, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) set up a process allowing the House to conduct a do-over of the vote by Tuesday. But Obama and GOP leadership aren't yet in a position where TAA is any more likely to pass. So the House Rules Committee on Monday night attached a provision to a "rule" governing parameters for debate on the intelligence authorization bill that extends the possibility for the chamber to vote on TAA again to July 30." Pro-fast track forces in the House are admitting that they are defeated for now. Thank the House for defeating fast track on Friday by signing our petition. References: 1. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/245070-house-gop-punts-on-trade

I am a homeowner in a flood zone. A flood in 1997 came to our neighborhood, and cost the area $40 million. Only pathetic corrective measures have made, AND a big El Nino event this winter may bring a worse flood. I want my very expensive insurance to work!

The moral authority of and respect for the Pope is a gamechanger on an issue like this.

Our infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes. I, personally, find it very hard to get around because of serious neck and back issues. Riding on these terrible roads is hazardous for me. Investing in infrastructure would help this country economically on many levels.