I have been personally affected by this and feel employers are wrong in not providing paid time off to recover from an illness. We shouldn't have to choose between loosing money or coming to work sick. This is morally wrong.

Partisan redistricting steals all of our votes and our voices. It is like the fox guarding the hen house.

The Silver Triangle neighborhood, nestled between Studio City's busy Ventura Blvd. business district, Laurel Canyon, and the Santa Monica Mountains, wants to be restored to a safe school neighborhood where residents can move about safely, walk their children to school, cycle and drive. We have an adjacent elementary school with 900 students and a smaller elementary/secondary school within the Triangle. Wilacre/Fryman Canyon hiking is next door and brings hundreds of people daily to our streets. Recently, our residents have been suffering from the intrusive and damaging effects of Google Maps, Waze, GPS and other technologies that provide drivers with alternative traffic routes, resulting in thousands of non-local drivers cutting through our neighborhood daily. Further, due to the cumulative effects of major developments past and proposed, including recent and aggressive expansion of restaurants and "chain stores" along the Ventura Blvd. corridor between Whitsett and Colfax, increased high-density housing projects and the proposed development of Sportsman's Landing, we are now and will become increasingly overrun with vehicles, well beyond our street capacity. We want the City of Los Angeles to institute meaningful and effective traffic calming measures immediately, reducing air and noise pollution and protecting residents' safety from excessive, often unlawful and unhealthful traffic, which is degrading our quality of life.

Over the last 5 years Governor Christie's Economic Development Authority has given $5.4 BILLION to the wealthiest and most politically connected .01 percent of New Jersey corporations – at a cost to our underfunded schools, crumbling roads and bridges, the state pension fund and struggling property taxpayers. Enough! J.P. Morgan. Lockheed Martin. Prudential. Panasonic. Citibank – all of them have received tens of millions in public dollars from Chris Christie. In exchange for tax cuts, they are supposedly creating jobs. But we have no idea whether they are actually doing so, because Chris Christie has never even bothered to ask them, despite being required to by law. In many cases we know for a fact that corporations just moved jobs from town to town. The worst, like Citibank and Campbell’s Soup, took the tax breaks and laid people off anyway. Here’s the worst part: every dollar doled out to Prudential is a dollar that can’t be spent fixing a bridge, paying a schoolteacher, or making college more affordable. While giving out billions in subsidies with one hand, Governor Christie has cut property tax credits for middle-class families and the Earned Income Tax Credit for people struggling on the brink with the other. These reckless subsidies have skewed our state budgets out of balance and put the interests of NJ’s richest residents and corporations ahead of the rest. Enough is enough.

Over the last 5 years Governor Christie's Economic Development Authority has given $5.4 BILLION to the wealthiest and most politically connected .01 percent of New Jersey corporations – at a cost to our underfunded schools, our crumbling roads and bridges, and our state pension fund. Enough! J.P. Morgan. Lockheed Martin. Prudential. Panasonic. Citibank – all of them have received tens of millions in public dollars from Chris Christie. In exchange for tax cuts, they are supposedly creating jobs. But we have no idea whether they are actually doing so, because Chris Christie has never even bothered to ask them, despite being required to by law. In many cases we know for a fact that corporations just moved jobs from town to town. The worst, like Citibank and Campbell’s Soup, took the tax breaks and laid people off anyway. Here’s the worst part: every dollar doled out to Prudential is a dollar that can’t be spent fixing a bridge, paying a schoolteacher, or making college more affordable. While giving out billions in subsidies with one hand, Governor Christie has cut property tax credits for middle-class families and the Earned Income Tax Credit for people struggling on the brink with the other. These reckless subsidies have skewed our state budgets out of balance and put the interests of NJ’s richest residents and corporations ahead of the rest. Enough is enough.

Grandparents having rights to grandchildren and yes I have been effected both parents to my grandchildren have failed their children, I am paternal grandmother and now trying taking my visitation away. this is not best interest of children I have been rock solid with my grandchildren for over 16 years, and been a major part of their lives....

If RoundUp "probably" causes cancer, it's time to get rid of it! In light of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer findings that glyphosate, commonly sold as RoundUp, is a "probable human carcinogen" (Group 2A), the EPA should reconsider its current Group E designation for the herbicide. Hundreds of millions of pounds of this herbicide are used on farmland across America every year, and the U.S. Geological Survey has detected glyphosate in rain, streams and air near agricultural areas. Americans are exposed to this "probable human carcinogen" in their food, air and water every day, and the EPA and FDA are not doing enough to protect us from these exposures and potential health problems. It's time for the EPA to suspend the use of glyphosate until a meaningful evaluation of the herbicide's carcinogenicity is done as a part of the EPA's ongoing registration review. The FDA should also begin monitoring and enforcing tolerance levels for glyphosate residues set by the EPA immediately.

Nestlé has been pushing for a water bottling facility in the Columbia River Gorge for over five years now. Despite widespread opposition from tens of thousands of Oregonians, the proposal is still in the works. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recently submitted a water rights transfer application that would expedite Nestlé's water bottling scheme in the Gorge, and would throw out the public interest review. At the same time, Oregon is experiencing a drought, and it's more important than ever that we protect our water resources. We NEED leadership from Gov. Brown. Sign this petition to send a message directly to Governor Brown to protect Oregon's water and keep Nestlé out!

The Illinois House and Illinois Senate may vote by April 24 on HB4011 [1] and SB1761.[2] These bills would legitimize the de-facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank by cutting off state contracts with companies that boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Boycotting Israeli settlements in the West Bank as a means of protesting the Israeli occupation has wide political support in the US and internationally, including by Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) in Israel and Americans for Peace Now in the US [3], and the Presbyterian Church [5], and United Methodist Church [6] in the US. Any private Israeli entity that wants to receive funding from the European Union must demonstrate that it has no links to the West Bank. [7] Urge your Representative and Senator in the Illinois legislature to oppose HB4011 and SB1761 by signing our petition at MoveOn. References: 1. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=88&GA=99&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=4011&GAID=13 2. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1761&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=88517&SessionID=88 3. http://archive.peacenow.org/entries/apn_joins_peace_nows_call_for_boycotting_settlements 4. http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/content/jvp-issues 5. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html 6. http://umc-gbcs.org/resolutions/opposition-to-israeli-settlements-in-palestinian-land 7. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.536155

The Illinois House and Illinois Senate may vote by April 24 on HB4011 [1] and SB1761.[2] These bills attempt to legitimize the de-facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank by cutting off state contracts with companies that boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Boycotting Israeli settlements in the West Bank as a means of protesting the Israeli occupation has wide political support in the US and internationally, including by Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) in Israel and Americans for Peace Now in the US [3], and the Presbyterian Church [4], and United Methodist Church [5] in the US. Any private Israeli entity that wants to receive funding from the European Union must demonstrate that it has no links to the West Bank. [6] Urge your Representative and Senator in the Illinois legislature to oppose HB4011 and SB1761 by signing our petition at MoveOn. References: 1. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=88&GA=99&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=4011&GAID=13 2. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1761&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=88517&SessionID=88 3. http://archive.peacenow.org/entries/apn_joins_peace_nows_call_for_boycotting_settlements 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html 5. http://umc-gbcs.org/resolutions/opposition-to-israeli-settlements-in-palestinian-land 6. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.536155

To move beyond the gridlock of nation-state politics, citizens of the Earth can come together through the Internet and make collective calls for actions for a sustainable future.

I am part of the growing Anti-AA movement. We, of the Anti-AA movement, have watched AA ideology destroy and kill the more vulnerable members of AA and other related 12 Step Groups. Many of us have also almost been destroyed by the psychological abuse of AA ourselves. AA does not show a significant statistical long term success rate, but it is increasingly showing more and more victims. The Christian Church, and again, even anyone who simply believes in the most basic teaching of Jesus, needs to stop allowing meetings in buildings under their control and/or stop encouraging friends and followers to attend AA.