Chronic exposure to lawn chemicals poses severe health risks to residents and unknown side effects to the environment.

The bitter feud in Congress is hurting millions of Americans. Veterans with bachelor's degrees, single mothers and fathers, experienced professionals, and hard-working Americans are falling through the cracks--they are suffering. Finding work, even a minimum wage job, is an extremely daunting task. Some Americans have to lie about their qualifications to even get an interview for a minimum wage job. Some Americans are past their 50th interview and are still looking for work. Service members, especially, did not come home to sit on the couch and collect unemployment--they are suffering. Help them. Help us. Renew Emergency Unemployment Compensation. In this economic climate, it's a vital resource!

The Superbowl brings millions of dollars into the economy of the state where it is played. Fans who are traveling to be a part of the Superbowl deserve to know they will be safe from discrimination from local businesses. Many of the sponsors who spend a great deal of money to advertise during the Superbowl to fans watching at home are companies who have anti-discrimination policies in the workplace. Some of these companies also actively promote equality. NFL Football is one of the things that brings Americans of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and religions together. It makes sense for the NFL to stand for inclusiveness and against discrimination of any kind.

Trader Joe's is a leader in the revolution towards healthier, more consciously produced foods, and they have become a major force in the food industry now with over 400 unique markets nationwide. We applaud their policies of only featuring meat and dairy products from animals that are not fed growth hormones or antibiotics. It's time for Trader Joe's to take a strong stand against GMO's. We suggest they no longer carry any products containing GMO's. This includes their fruit and vegetables and also the food that is fed the animals whose meat or dairy products they feature, and even the ingredients in their pet foods. Thank you Trader Joe's for going as far as you have gone. Time for the next step!

We the people of Venezuela that proudly live in United Sates and around the glove, have learned to respect the laws and the constitution with its principles. We ask you in the most humanly possible way, to please open a dialogue with the Venezuelan Government, so that its citizens can choose freely another president that can help the country move on from the current dictatorship. We can now see that President Maduro is not properly representing the citizens, and also lacks the necessary education to represent Venezuela in any issue. We the Venezuelan people ask for your help to stop the insecurity, violence, starvation, and murder caused by the legacy of Chavez dictatorship and now followed by Maduro and his cabinet of corrupt politicians

JUNE 11: FINAL HEARING TO DECIDE THE FATE OF LA BAJADA MESA The Board of County Commissioners will hold a special hearing at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, June 11 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., Santa Fe. PLEASE ATTEND THIS HEARING - IT IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO SPEAK OUT TO SAVE THE MESA. Add your name to this petition urging the County to deny this application and share the petition with your friends. -------------------------------------------- Help us stop a proposal to allow a gravel strip mine on top of La Bajada Mesa, south of Santa Fe along I-25. This stunning and historically important landmark will be desecrated by this strip mine, and use scarce, County-provided, potable water. Moreover, granting this proposal will establish a precedent for future expansion of this new mining zone to adjacent parts of the Mesa, further extending the destructive impact, All this for gravel! Go to www.savelabajada.org for further information.

VICTORY! Governor Brown has now signed SB 27, the bill to force Dark Money non-profits to reveal their secret funders in California elections! As California Clean Money Campaign President Trent Lange said afterwards in the Sacramento Bee: “Governor Brown’s signature of SB 27 marks a turning point in the fight to reveal secret funders of political campaigns. It starts to shed light on dark money in California and serves as an example for the entire nation." Your petitions and calls worked! SB 27 became law after more than 40,000 people like you signed petitions. More than a thousand people applied extra pressure by calling their legislator. SB 27 was a great coalition effort in which the California Clean Money Action Fund worked with not only the bill author Senator Lou Correa, the sponsor FPPC, and our CA campaign finance friends at California Common Cause, California Forward, and the League of Women Voters of California; but also with national organizations like Public Citizen, CREDO Mobile, Courage Campaign, Progressives United, Represent.Us, causes.com, MoveOn.org, Money Out Voters In Coalition, MapLight, Label GMOs: California's Grassroots, Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California, Moms Across America, and others. Thanks to everybody who signed and helped us achieve this historic victory! PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE PETITION and we'll tell you how you can help pass other crucial bills to end the dominance of Big Money in politics, like SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act and SB 1272, the Overturn Citizens United Act. -- Your friends at the California Clean Money Campaign (www.CAdisclose.org)

My petition is important to me for the freedom of my son whom I believe is innocent! As well, I want my petition to reach all Senators to look at other cases where another human is wrongfully convicted. I have always trusted the system however with what my family and I endured during this wrongful conviction of my son, my faith in the system has died. I am asking you to please give me a reason to believe in it again. I love my son and will fight for his freedom until God calls me home and with this being said, I pray you find it in your heart to look further in his case that occurred in Belton, Texas. I am always available for contact.

In a time when record numbers of students are applying for admission to colleges and universities, LS students are at a disadvantage due to the school's policy of not reweighting GPAs to reflect the rigor of coursework offered at the school. Students are less competitive with their peers in many neighboring communities that do reweight their GPA, and they are often ineligible for merit scholarships that are based soley on GPA and test scores. Its time to give our students the recognition they deserve for the rigorous coursework they complete in high school. It's time to reweight GPAs.

The Department of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration changed my first name from "Begoña" to “Begona." As a result, people typically mispronounce it as Bee-go-na, instead of Bee-go-nee-ah. I also have friends with last names (like Castañeda) whose names are rendered without the "ñ" and are mispronounced.

The federal government have not keep in mind its responseabilites to the electrate. These elected and appointed officals because they only held accountable at elections, consider those that are rich and constiture the !% between elections. There is a safe guard needed to keep these individuals minds on the interest of the 99%.

Bakken shale oil has proven to be volatile, explosive, and toxic. There have been 7 accidents in the past 9 months, with the Philadelphia derailment being the only one not to result in a fireball and released volatile compounds like the carcinogenic Benzene into the air. In Lac Mégantic, Canada 47 people died and 15 acres of downtown burned. In Casselton, ND on December 30, 2013 everyone in 5 mile radius had to be evacuated. The only difference between the other 6 accidents and the one in Philadelphia was the use of a DOT-101 train. Had the faulty and inadequate DOT-111 trains been used, we would likely still be dealing with the aftereffects. The Department of Transportation has agreed to slow down the trains by 10 mph and look into track safety; however, more investigation is needed into the root cause of the derailments. We need to be clear whether the fault is with infrastructure or cargo before putting forth solutions. What would an accident look like for Philadelphia, where the train line runs right through the heart of the city, passing schools, hospitals, homes, parks, on a path adjacent to our vital water supply? The lives of Philadelphia's residents need to be put first. We had a near miss disaster during the early morning hours on MLK Day that could have shaken the nation. This complete disregard for the lives of Philadelphians needs to end, and the Bakken Shale oil and gas transport by rail needs to be stopped.