We should be horrified by the acts that food producers commit to animals every day, just so they can sell a snack or a meal. I've started this petition to help others understand the impacts of the egg industry - and while they may not want to stop eating eggs, they can still help support animals by demanding that the industry become more humane.

This petition is about losing your job or being at risk of losing your job just because you're sick. This is also about corporations wanting to fire you because you don't want to work while you're sick. It should be law that the employer should have to excuse the absence with a doctor's note. This would give the working class more rights.

You can call your Supervisor at 565-2241. Some facts, as reported more fully, with footnote hyperlinks and graphs, in the SonomaIndependent dot org: While Sonoma County’s economy is surging, and tax revenues are surpassing projections, County libraries are facing their fifth year of the worst funding crisis in a century. As reported in the Sonoma Independent.org, despite being one of the wealthiest counties in California, Sonoma County spends just $34 per capita on libraries. That’s half of what Napa and Marin County spend, and barely one-quarter of the $124 per capita that San Francisco spends. As a result of this underfunding, in 2011, Sonoma County libraries cut back their weekly hours system wide by 25%. This ended Monday and nearly all evening hours at 11 libraries. The result has been that the most vital public resource of our community has locked its doors on tens of thousands of patrons, including toddlers, teens, parents, and seniors, who had relied on regular library service. Library visits, with Internet service and book and DVD lending in a free, safe working space for all, had not been diminishing until the enormous cutback in hours caused them to plummet. Fewer hours has translated into a 22% reduction in visits, meaning 600,000 fewer trips to the library each year. Cutback hours has created lines for computer usage, and reduced services for the more than 100,000 citizens who use our libraries. No other countywide public service experienced similar cutbacks during the recent recession. And no other reductions in services provided by the County missed being restored by an economic recovery that will bring a record $13.5 million surplus to the County’s treasury this fiscal year (ending June 30). An even larger surplus is projected for next year. Yet our County Supervisors continue to insist that there is no money available to restore library hours, and that this is not their responsibility because a dedicated parcel tax funds our libraries. This ignores the fact that many local governments add funding for libraries, and that the County Government regularly adds funding for services, like roads and law enforcement, when dedicated funding falls short. During the four years since the Monday closures, inflation-adjusted spending for libraries has dropped 3%. During the same period, the total Sonoma County budget has increased by 16%, and, despite declining crime rates, inflation-adjusted spending on prisons and probation has increased by 23%. Sonoma County’s Library Director estimates that it would cost $1.2 million per year to reopen the 11 main County libraries on Mondays. This is less than 10% of this year's projected budget surplus, and a small fraction of what the County will spend, from the General Fund, to augment dedicated road repair revenue. Sonoma County expects to add at least $6 million this year to nearly $50 million in its “rainy day” reserve funds. We want our Supervisors to know that this unprecedented cutback in hours has created four years of rainy days for the many thousands of us, and our families, who use and love our County libraries. We hope that in 2016, a tax initiative can permanently resolve the library funding crisis. Meanwhile, we urge you to place $1.2 million less in the reserve fund this year and next, and dedicate these funds to restoring Monday hours, starting this summer. Sonoma County’s government website says, “We Work For You.” Our County Supervisors need to fund our library hours shortfall and stop making excuses. Four years of closed Mondays is long enough.

Last night, an Amtrak train tragically derailed, leaving at least seven people dead. The very next day, Congress took an initial vote to cut $262 million from Amtrak’s budget [1]. This is a devastating cut to an agency that is already radically underfunded. The exact cause of last night's accident is yet unknown, but safe trains don't pay for themselves. Is this risk worth the consequences? Tell Congress: Stop the Amtrak funding cuts. [1] Hours after deadly crash, House panel votes to cut Amtrak budget, Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/amtrak-budget-house-panel-crash-117904.html

I have personally used this service for school and work. I do not have the luxury of a personal vehicle to travel in, and I do not make much money. The New Mexico Rail Runner Express has been there for me to use when I had no other transportation. To hear state officials say it may not be worth the money is sad. Discontinuing service would hurt not only me but all of the current 4,500 riders who use it daily.(1) If you have ever used this service or know someone—whether it be a friend or family member—who uses it, please sign your name and let New Mexico's lawmakers know we want this train to stay!

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a front for corporations to gain access to legislators that claims it's a charity. That lets ALEC's backers claim their funding for ALEC as a charitable gift and deduct it from their taxes, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab for ALEC’s influence scheme. That's not fair, which is why we've filed a whistleblower complaint with the IRS demanding that they revoke ALEC’s charitable tax-exempt status, fine them for any violations, and make its corporate backers pay the back taxes they owe. Join us!

President Obama wants Fast Track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal that hundreds of corporate interests have been given special access to. If the President wants our support, he needs to tell us who is influencing the final deal. Tell President Obama -- we deserve an open and transparent process!

A lack of education has many long-term effects for the state of Arizona. We have too many low wage workers and do not attract industries that bring high-paying jobs. Many of our most promising college graduates probably leave Arizona and relocate to cities with better-paying careers. More funding for education can change this trend and improve the well-being of our citizens.

Congress has raised their pay every year for 10 years to keep up with inflation. Yet, the common man of America is still being paid an unfit wage--one that cannot be lived on. Trickle down economics does not work. It just makes the rich richer and the poor stay poor. Enough is enough!

I am a local entrepreneur trying to gain approval from Borough Council to amend Ordinance No. 1111 to allow for the opening of a craft distillery and tasting room in Emmaus, to create new jobs and to provide a unique attraction and destination bringing valuable dollars into the Borough.

I'm trying to save Logan Summerlin's life and prevent his sons from becoming orphans because of the arrogance of Bay Pines Regional Offices and the VA's St. Pete Medical Center campus. A decade is a long enough time to have resolved matters; still not, and he cannot afford a decade delay with his lung issues . Denying access to care and records abusing the words "classified" and "national security " has impeded a timely treatment plan. Send him to Walter Reed and USF for testing now. Time is not his friend. Urgent! Have the VA call and give his Pulmonologist five minutes of their time!

I am inspired every time I hear them speak. I don't feel that way when I hear the declared candidates speak. I don't think I'm the only one.