The House is considering a bill, already passed by the Senate, to prohibit anyone with a restraining order against them or anyone convicted of criminal domestic violence from ownership of a firearm for 5 to 10 years, depending on the severity of their crime. This is a necessary, common-sense step to protect domestic violence victims from further harm.

We need healthy pollinators and healthy people. It's time to expect a well-tested and safe product. We don't want bees dying, we don't want to get cancer from polluted ground and water, and we want safe playing fields for our kids.

to give the student the right to open a bank account at Amaan bank

Public use of glyphosate is minimally regulated and those regulations are often ignored or dismissed. I have personally observed glyphosate being sprayed on a school property while school was in session and children were outside on school grounds. Exposing our citizens, especially our children, to a probable human carcinogen for the purpose of convenient weed control is wrong. Let's ban the use of glyphosate on all Rhode Island public land.

We have an opportunity to make a real impact on early education in Massachusetts. This move is long overdue. Massachusetts should lead on education, but when it comes to early education, we've fallen behind. Since 2001, we’ve seen a 50% decrease in the state’s commitment to early learning. We can do better. Every child deserves the same strong start. Right now, the Massachusetts Senate is debating their budget, and we have a chance to deliver a win for our youngest learners and their teachers. The relationships young children form with their teachers is critical to their thriving. But, thanks to continual cuts to public programs, we're struggling to keep high-quality educators in the field, which has a 30% turnover rate. These cuts are short-sighted. For every $1 we spend on early education, we save $7 over time as kids require less special education, perform better and earn more in the workforce. It's not just smart, it's the right thing to do. We've got just a few days to build support for two amendments that will make a big difference: - Early Education Rate Reserve Amendment, #547 - which would invest in early educators and stabilize the workforce. - Early Ed Quality Programming Amendment #601 - which helps improve quality in early learning programs. The Senate will vote soon on these amendments. Can you sign our petition right now?

Despite being the first state in the nation to pass an equal pay law, women in Oregon still only earn about 79 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. Here’s a big part of the problem: You can’t ask for equal pay if you don’t know you’re being paid less. Too often, employers discourage workers from talking about pay, benefits, and working conditions – sometimes they even punish or fire them for doing it. That needs to end. Oregon has a chance to lead on the issue of pay transparency. The Oregon House recently passed the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would outlaw retaliation against employees who talk about salaries and working conditions. Now, it’s up to the Oregon Senate to act. Sign the Petition: Tell the Oregon Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act without delay!

I bought Scotch Broom and now have to spend the rest of my life trying to rid my property of it. If I had known it is a take-over horror that interferes with natural plants, animals, birds, sidewalks and parking lots; it gravitates and fills clear cuts and that the seeds last 100 years I wouldn't have bought it.

People have a right to know what they put into their bodies. If you are what you eat and you do not know what is in your food supply and the chemicals used to sustain such a product, you do not know what you are.

Shell is trying to dock two massive oil rigs in Seattle en route to Arctic. Tell Washington lawmakers to refuse their request and protect our environment.

I listened to Brian Stephenson's recent TED talk. He is a lawyer who defends children who are accused of a crime. Judges apparently feel free to charge children 14 and 15 years old as adults in their courtrooms. This is a dreadful distortion of justice and damages these children for life. They are even given life imprisonment. Children are just learning responsibility in their teenage years and their brains are developing. In no way should they be held responsible for crimes as adults.

I hate to see such evil perpetuated in the world so that the ultra wealthy, old money, multi-generational Trusts can have more money, power and control while also fulfilling one of their major goals of decreasing worldwide population.

We are hugely concerned about the most recent proposal announced on April 21st to build office buildings and a hotel on this property. Remington Woods should be off-limits for development and instead should be preserved as a park or open space for the people of Stratford, Bridgeport and surrounding towns. There are plenty of true brown fields in the area that should instead be cleaned up and used for office space and hotels, not a precious and rare urban open space such as this one. It would be as if the leaders of New York City proposed developing Central Park as a way to generate "taxes and jobs". Not a good idea in either location.