Let's show Governor Cuomo that veterans and their families are important. Let this override serve as evidence of our appreciation for their service and sacrifice.

I have epilepsy with cognitive deficits due to past seizures and medication. ADHD and slow processing has destroyed my employment record. I have been denied disability even though medication doesn't control the seizures. It's time for Social Security to recognize epilepsy is more than seizures. Damage from seizures and medication must be considered.

There is no legitimate reason to wait for a confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch until the Republican controlled senate takes its seat in January. The current Republican party has proven that it is only concerned about obstruction of the administration's agenda, regardless of the will of the people or what is best for the country. The President is also entitled to seat a cabinet of his choosing, unless a fair hearing shows the nominee to be unable to do the job or they have a lack of integrity. There is precious little evidence that any nominee of President Obama will receive a fair hearing by a Senate led by Mitch McConnell. "My first priority is making this president a one-term president" - Mitch McConnell on the occasion of President Obama's inauguration.

Laila and Betty have served the community for decades and every day deal with problems that go beyond financial services. A licensed clinical social worker and a registered nurse can not be replaced by financial counselors with one day of training. There have been too many cuts to HIV services in SF and it must stop. The Davies Campus is doing itself, and the city of SF a huge disservice while drastically reducing the breadth of services to thousands of HIV patients who desperately need the extra help Laila and Betty are uniquely qualified to provide.

To change karaoke...? People in Europe, and people who work on Saturdays (like Scraner) would be able to come to karaoke if this happens :D

Our fathers fought against communist in the Congo, Africa. They have never been recognized publicly for what we believe is the only war we have won. A lot of our fathers never came home and we now ask for the proper recognition for their bravery in helping our country maintain the freedom for which we came here. They are our families and our country's heroes and deserve the highest honors as any other heroes of American wars.

1 in 100 children are affected by a Congenital Heart Disease in South Dakota, with 1 in 4 of those being critical. Only 1/3 are diagnosed before they are born. A simple and painless test using a pulse oximeter prior to discharge would save the lives of many children.

An out of town developer proposes 50 dwelling units on Sombrero Beach Road from Publix to Marathon High School. We need your help to save our community character and our well used community path. It's NOT A DONE DEAL! Please show your support to protect our gateway to beautiful Sombrero Beach at our next City Council Meeting: Tuesday, January 13 5:30 P.M. @ Marathon Government Center Please attend the meeting above, forward this petition to your friends and colleagues, and write or call your city councilmen.

Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz took control of the DNC in May of 2011. And while she has been comfortably “tucked in bed” in her own district, her complete lack of messaging and dissemination of available resources has cost us two consecutive congressional defeats. She also distanced herself from the President and his policies in the 2014 election. We got crushed. And now, what can only be described as the debacle of the Democratic debate schedule unfolds. The obvious structuring of this schedule and its limited number seem to prove Ms. Wasserman-Schultz has ulterior motives. We Democrats cannot have a person of such electoral criticality so compromised by her personal preferences, and ambition. Every second that this leadership is in place is another second the Democratic Party concedes congress to the Republicans. She never took any responsibility for her miserable failures in our previous two elections. Our current message in news cycles is invisible as is she. And I believe that this now even jeopardizes our crucial need to hold onto the White House in 2016. Honorable people who have failed so miserably in their mission would hurry to apologize and get out of the way. But apparently, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz’s hubris will not allow her to do so. Please sign this petition to remove Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the DNC Chair.

Dairy Creek West was pulled into the urban growth boundary by a back-room deal. A meeting with developers and elected officials occurred on February 23, 2014 in the City of Hillsboro that was not advertised to the public. The meeting had no minutes and no attendance sheets. None of the landowners of Dairy Creek West were invited to this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated Statewide Planning Goal #1 that encourages public involvement through the entire planning process. This bill was passed on February 28th, 2014 five days after this meeting giving no reasonable notification to landowners of what transpired at this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated the landowners of Dairy Creek West 5th Amendment right of due process on their land. It also went around the public process listed in Title 11 and 14 of Metro Code. This code requires notification of landowners when their land is being considered to be placed into the urban growth boundary because of the monetary and livelihood impacts to landowners. It evens offers the opportunity for the landowners to say whether they want their land to be included in the urban growth boundary and why. Since the passage of House Bill 4078, it has placed undue stress on the landowners of Dairy Creek West as they now must try to protect their rural lifestyle. Find out more at http://www.334thavenue.org/

During his tenure as a Senator from Colorado, Mark Udall has been a champion of government transparency: on privacy and government surveillance, secret law, torture, and drone strikes. Sen. Udall lost his re-election bid this November, which puts him in a unique position to carry out one final mission to advance government transparency. News reports have indicated that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report details not only brutal abuse the CIA perpetrated on detainees, but also illegal deception CIA officials conducted on Congress and other executive branch officials about the program in order to evade democratic and legal accountability. The CIA has been preventing the report from becoming public. This is information the public deserves to know—and there is a way to get it to the people without the approval of the CIA. In 1971, Sen. Mike Gravel, frustrated with attempts to make the Pentagon Papers public through ordinary channels, used a key provision of the U.S. Constitution to get the documents published. According to the Speech and Debate Clause, members of Congress have an absolute free-speech right on the floor or in committee—even if what they say includes classified information. [1] So Gravel—along with an aide—read the entire Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, which is published for anyone to read. Government transparency advocates are now urging Sen. Udall to follow Gravel’s lead and read the Senate intelligence committee’s torture report into the congressional record. [2] The worst punishment he’d face would be censorship or expulsion by his colleagues—but since he is out of office in January in any event, he has little to fear. Urge Senator Udall to use this unique opportunity to defend the public interest and let the American people know about the CIA’s use of torture by signing our petition. References: 1. “Senator Who Put Pentagon Papers Into Public Record Urges Udall To Do Same With Torture Report,” Dan Froomkin, The Intercept, November 10, 2014, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/10/mike-gravel-senator-put-pentagon-papers-public-record-urges-udall-torture-report 2. “Mark Udall's loss is a blow for privacy, but he can go out with a bang: 'leak' the CIA torture report,” Trevor Timm, The Guardian, November 5, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/mark-udall-loss-privacy-cia-torture-report

AARP, whose own "R.I.G.H.T Ethical Decision-Making Model" demands that they "hold their decisions up to the mirror" must do so with it's current business partnership with Walmart, who is selling the AARP RealPad Tablet and whose labor practices are infamously poor, unethical, immoral, unjust and unfair. As recently as January of 2014 the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Walmart, asserting that it had broken U.S. labor laws during the Black Friday strikes of 2012 and 2013. AARP should stop doing business through and with Walmart and remove the AARP RealPad from Walmart shelves and it's online catalog.