Rampant drug dealing in Olympia's Downtown core has resulted in public safety problems in and around its most cherished educational, recreational, and cultural centers. This proposed ordinance is the result of unprecedented cooperation between the OPD Chief Roberts and the Thurston County Prosecutor, as well as other local law enforcement agencies and community groups. Send a message to the skeptical City Council that this ordinance has the support of the people and needs to pass.

Because wages are too low and unequal in my beloved state!

Our government is made up of federal, state, and local court systems that are relied upon by citizens to mete out justice according to the law. This means, all citizens are held accountable based on the law. The laws concerning expunging a person’s court record should be held with the same acknowledgement of justice as any other law. This is not the case, however, because the internet has become the court of public opinion, and is literally ruining the lives of tens of thousands of people who made a mistake at one point in their life, but paid their debt to society and now deserve (and by law have been granted) the opportunity for a second chance. It’s unfair that negative content that stays on the internet for years and years can make you guilty for life, even after the courts have cleared your name, and even after you have done everything in your power to turn your life around. This needs to change! Now is the time to push back against online publishers' claim of “free speech” and fight for the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Guilt by internet should be stopped.

We deserve to know the truth about the atrocities committed in our country's name.

If Comcast's deal goes through, it will have control of 19 of the country's top 20 markets, with a 30 percent share in cable and a 40 percent share in broadband.

It's past time to address the huge income inequality in this country, and to loosen the grip employers hold over intimidated, overworked and underpaid workers.

Who in their right mind would oppose a common-sense anti-rape law, especially when it covers juvenile detention centers, too?

We are drilling thousands of feet into the earth and injecting, on average, four and a half million gallons of pressurized sludge into cracks between subterranean rocks. Is it really surprising that this is leading to increased seismic activity?

Arizona House Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills) loves private prisons so much that he added an extra $1 million of tax payer money to the state budget to pay for housing prisoners that don't yet exist!

The price of a college education should not include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele Leonhart can't convince anyone in America that the DEA does anything but throw kids in jail.

The first step in the path to economic equality is redistributing the wealth wasted by reckless trades. The more traders boost volumes by harming investors, the more our American dream will turn into an American nightmare.