I am a Utah parent of a special needs child and I am outraged that the school principal of Blue Peak High School would exclude special needs kids from the yearbook for any reason. This constitutes illegal discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). At the very least, this principal needs to be let go to find another career that does not involve working with people, let alone with children or other vulnerable groups such as those with disabilities.

I sincerely doubt our founding fathers intended to create a profession of politics. Politicians are meant to serve the public and not worry about reelection. It should be considered a civic duty, much the same as jury duty.

The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control does not know how to properly run what should be a private business to begin with. A private model is superior to the DABC and adheres to the state's already conservative values of reducing government and fostering business institutions.

Watch John Oliver's revealing piece on the secret reality behind America's favorite meat, then send a message to Congress to protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry companies. http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=2109 The poultry sector is dominated by a few large poultry processing companies that control every step of chicken production. Farmers who raise chickens do not even own the birds, though they do own the waste they create and are responsible for making costly upgrades to their farms, as dictated by these companies. Farmers borrow massive amounts of money -- sometimes more than a million dollars -- to build and upgrade the chicken houses as directed by the companies. Though the farmers must make payment on these loans for a decade or more, they often are dependent on getting the next delivery of chicks under a short-term, flock-to-flock contract to repay their debt. Chicken companies often retaliate against farmers who speak out against unfair and abusive conditions in the poultry industry by terminating their contracts, leaving farmers unable to pay their mountains of debt. Farmers should not be betting the farm if they exercise their First Amendment right to speak out or talk to public officials about the unfairness in the poultry industry. Please support Representative Kaptur's efforts to help level the playing field and protect chicken farmers from retaliation by Big Poultry corporations.

I am scared to death of the Spectra corporate Algonquin Pipeline extension which will come within 105 feet of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, creating a potential Fukushima on the Hudson. This is a fact attested to by independent experts including Paul Blanch, a 50-year nuclear power and energy engineer and Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline expert of 40 years' experience. There is no other pipeline that comes close to a nuclear plant.

Mental Instability in children is a large problem in the United States today. Due to disconnected families, kids suffering from mental instability are unable to gather the treatment they need to help live a stable life. Without the necessary treatment, kids suffering from mental instability can inflict pain upon themselves and even others, which sometimes can be fatal. Help get these kids the help they need and help the community as a whole while you're at it.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a corporate trade deal that would ship U.S. jobs overseas, endanger our environment and even undercut regulations like Wall Street reform. It is being negotiated in secret, and even those who divulge its details could go to jail. Congress is dangerously close to giving the President (and any President for the next six years) “fast-track” approval for the TPP and other trade agreements. Most House Democrats have come out against it, but the rest are under intense pressure from the White House and big business to go along. As the Democratic front-runner for President in 2016, Hillary Clinton can show true leadership on fast track. She has already come out against some parts of the trade agreement, but has to date only said she has been for some agreements—and against others. Hillary Clinton opposing fast-track would be a game changer in helping us defeat it. Sign the petition to Hillary Clinton: Please oppose fast-track for the TPP.

On May 19, former Commerce Secretary William Daley had an op-ed in the New York Times in support of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. [1] About this op-ed, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has written, [2] “William Daley’s pro-TPP op-ed in today’s Times is just awful, on multiple levels…But what really annoyed me, even if it’s not necessarily the worst bit, was this: ‘But today, of the 40 largest economies, the United States ranks 39th in the share of our gross domestic product that comes from exports. This is because our products face very high barriers to entry overseas in the form of tariffs, quotas and outright discrimination.’ Actually, no. We have a low export share because we’re a big country… claiming that the relatively low US export share says anything at all about trade barriers makes me want to bang my head against a wall.” The New York Times fact-checks the op-eds that it publishes. Should the New York Times have published such a grossly misleading claim? Can NYT editors dispute that the claim was grossly misleading, if Paul Krugman attests that it was? Should the NYT publish a correction, clarification, or editor’s note to accompany the op-ed? Urge NYT editors to investigate by signing and sharing our petition. References: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/opinion/free-trade-is-not-the-enemy.html 2. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/the-mis-selling-of-tpp/

House Bill 4052 would take power away from communities in order to boost corporate profits. Michigan’s 1 percent shouldn’t be allowed to overturn decisions they don’t like made by local governments, but now they’re trying to repeal local laws that reflect our values, like raising minimum wages and ensuring small business owners don’t get left behind by taxpayer-funded development projects. Protect local progress today.

Chris Christie’s horrible settlement with ExxonMobil just keeps getting worse. No matter how much Exxon ends up paying to restore the wetlands it polluted, people in Bayonne and Linden could see zero dollars put back into restoring their communities. How could this have happened? Gov. Christie has bungled our state’s finances, so he rigged the budget last year to raid funds from corporate polluters to pay for basic expenses. Now, no matter how much money our state wins in damages from corporate polluters like Exxon, there’s a cap on the amount that goes to restore wetlands and rivers. People in Bayonne and Linden have suffered enough. Sign the petition calling on Gov. Christie to send every dollar from Exxon to restore New Jersey communities.

I am a high school student and I believe that school starts far too early. After so many studies have been published about this topic, it is strange that changes have not been made.

Update: "Take Back Redding" is disavowing the "no handout ordinance" petition. The least we can do is allow the homeless the chance to eat, we do not need this in our community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSGD45D8URM