Our Goal is to demonstrate the need for more mountain biking recreational opportunities, particularly throughout the Wasatch. With this support we plan on acquiring funding in order to build new or renovate existing bike parks and trails. The rapid increase in cyclists and the lack of safe quality trail lends the area to be a perfect candidate to increase biking opportunities. Getting more people outside recreating, playing, and enjoying themselves in the wonderful outdoors we have just outside our doorsteps.

Produce begins to lose nutritional content the moment it is picked. We are requesting to make it mandatory that all produce be marked with a "DATE PICKED" label.

Extreme lawmakers in the Mississippi legislature are pushing bills designed to intimidate and criminalize those who would engage in peaceful protest activities, such as picketing or demonstrations, outside corporations or the houses of CEOs. These bills—SB 2473 and SB 2653—have already passed the Senate and would have a chilling effect on anyone who tried to stand up for economic and social justice in Mississippi. They would restrict MIssissippians’ ability to participate in protests to hold corporations accountable for treating workers badly or polluting the environment. Instead of trying to take away the constitutional rights of Mississippians, our legislators should be focused on creating jobs. Tell Mississippi lawmakers to vote NO on these bills.

Read more about attacks on Clean Elections: http://azadvocacy.org/press-a-media/press/424-voting-rights-groups-slam-bills-on-clean-elections-ballot-measures Read more about HB2305: http://azadvocacy.org/press-a-media/press/422-voters-can-suppress-the-suppressors Read more about HB2651: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/bill-would-give-clean-election-funds-to-ariz-lawmakers-for/article_b98824fe-a8bd-5b50-97f1-59ede260868c.html

Some traditions are too important to let something like a change in conference stand in the way. Think of the tax dollars currently being lost in Kansas City, Columbia, and even Lawrence...

Our valley and entire state have long been ruled by the funds of environmentally destructive industries that have no regard for the people of this state. It is time to take a stand and protect our safety and the best interest of the people who live here.

Our military and their families give up so much on a daily basis. This is no way to repay them for their service to our country. After they showed up and went to Iraq and Afghanistan to serve and protect our government has decided to kick them to the curb while they continue to pad their salaries and benefits. We need to have their backs and stand united and say NO. If anyone needs to cut their pay,retirement,medical and benefits it should be them.

I don't want Food Trucks to disappear from Jacksonville. If you don't either I urge you to sign this petition, call our city councilmen and attend the discussion tomorrow at 3pm at City Hall!

Rush Limbaugh's sexist and misogynistic radio program has no place on military bases, which are struggling with their own culture that condones sexual harassment and assault. Please remove his program from the taxpayer-funded Armed Forces Network. Rush Limbaugh is finally getting his comeuppance for spewing misogynistic rhetoric. Over 3,000 advertisers have pulled their sponsorship, and many radio stations have stopped airing his show. But the Armed Forces Network (AFN), a taxpayer-funded station that broadcasts on U.S. military bases around the world, continues to air his program. The Pentagon faces a serious problem of sexual harassment and abuse, as more women on military bases report horrific cases of sexual assaults by other servicemembers. President Obama has said we must “step up our game exponentially” to prevent such assaults from happening and punish attackers. This must include changing the culture that condones such behavior. Rush Limbaugh’s program fuels a culture that condones—if not encourages—misogynistic behavior on military bases. Please sign our petition to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees asking that they pull Rush Limbaugh’s program from the Armed Forces Network.

As an alumnus of University of Arizona, I am concerned about the message of intolerance and discrimination that Arizona Senate Bill 1062 sends. This legislation is damaging to the reputation of the University system, its alumni and existing students and should be vetoed.

Hi I Naser Bayat have lived outside of Iran from 1979 to 2013, I have lived in Canada for 12 years from 2001 to 2013.During this time I have never had any problems with the police or any other law enforcement. I have never had a drinking violation ticket. In 2002 I married Janice Mayfield who is a Canadian citizen, our daughter Jasmine was born in 2007. I gave up my job when our daughter was three months old because my wife was unable to care for her. I was with Jasmine day and night for six years, I was her father and mother. Many people around us were aware of Jasmine's conditions, I always kept in touch with her school teachers and her family docter. I was also involved with a few organizations involving children with special needs. Everyone I knew admired the amount of time and effort that was involved, not to mention the passion and love that I had for my daughter. Jasmine and I were like two bodies sharing one soul, there was nothing I would'nt do for her. At the age of three we realized that there was a lack of progress in her development. She was dianosed with autism, from that moment I promised to dedicate my entire life doing everything I could to keep her safe, happy and healthy. Jasmine is now six years old, she still eats baby food. I have tried giving her healthy alternatives such as avocado, honey, wheat and sweet potatoes. I have always made sure that she received the proper nutrients. I am proud to say that she is happy, healthy and full of energy, I have done my very best to provide her with everything she needed. I am sorry to say that I am also suffering from a disability, I have hearing problems that has required me to have surgery on my right ear. Dr. Westberg who did my surgery mentioned that I would need my left ear done as well. Everything was running smoothly until we received a letter from Immigration which noted I had to go and meet with them. I went to Immigration with my lawyer and my wife. While I was there I was told by one of the officers that I had to leave Canada in one month. I was shocked and speechless, why is this happening? what did I do wrong? what was going to happen to my Jasmine? My simple but happy life with my family had turned upside down. I was devastated and was filled with a great loss of never seeing my daughter again. Jasmine has only three people in her life, myself,her mom and her grandmother. She was about to lose the one person that has been with her day and night since birth. I believed that Canada was a country made of principals, human rights and democracy. How could such a thing happen to us? My daughter was no longer happy, she knew that something was wrong. She was no longer playful and full of energy, I did'nt know what to do. Thinking of never seeing my beautiful daughter again was unimaginable. I was so depressed that I decided the only option was to end my life, I was nothing without Jasmine. I was taken to the hospital without proper care and was surrounded by immigration authorities. The next day they sent me to a prision in Vancouver, the following day I went to the immigration detention center. This place was horrible and filled with very aggressive prision guards. I was naked and searched, then I was taken to cell number three. They gave me a very heavy coat to wear, I had to wear it for fourty days. I was heavily controlled and under survelliance 24/7. I was'nt allowed to do anything, not enen take a bath or shower. When the time came that I was allowed to take a bath, I had four guards with me. I was hand cuffed from behind and my feet were chained. When it was time for my hearing before the judge, I was hand cuffed, chained and bare foot. The court was located at the immigration building. There was a judge, my lawyer and a few officers. The whole process took just a few minutes and I was'nt allowed to say anything. I was detained for almost one and a half months and then escorted to the airport. I was heading to Germany and then to Iran. I was escorted all the way to Germany by three immigration officers. At the airport I had some of my belongings returned except for my drivers licence and my care card. I am now in Iran, depressed and devastated. I have so many questions that have been left unanswered. A country like Canada that critizes and treats people like prisoners is not the same country that I once loved. How can a person be hand cuffed, chained and treated like an animal and not have the right to speak for himself. Even the least democratic country would'nt do what Canada has done to a six year old autistic child. They have killed my Jasmine's soul and destroyed her life. They have taken her father who was the only one who cared and looked after her, we were everything to each other. Canada took away my daughters happiness, there is no joy left in her. The government of Canada thinks because of Jasmine's disability, that she has no feelings and thoughts of her own. They are wrong, she knows that I was taken away and she needs me more then ever. When we were together, she always wanted me to wrap my arms around her so she could fall asleep. She liked when I played with her hair and played games with her. She used to be sensitive and passionate, now she is depressed and lost without me. She has lost weight and I'm extremely worried. I will hold Canada responsible for what they have done to me and my family. I will hold them responsible if anything happens to my Jasmine. She was my soul, my life and my heart, she was my everything and my only reason for living. I hold the government of Canada responsible, particulary Jason Kenney, the former minister of immigration for signing my deportation order. He destroyed our lives and I have no desire to live without my Jasmine.

NYC tap water is world renowned for its taste and quality. Bottled water of any ilk is less tested and it uses up unnecessary resources from oil to make and distribute the plastic bottles to the oil and work needed to dispose of them. Only one in 5 bottles is actually recycled. While the label on bottled water usually has pastoral scenes of nature including streams and forests, as much as 1 in 4 bottles of bottled water is actually just PLAIN OLD TAP WATER. Some filtered and some unfiltered. How would we even know if it was filtered or unfiltered? I just think of the foreign oil needed to make, distribute, and either recycle or send to landfills for a thousand years when I even SEE anyone drink ANY bottled water. I think as NYC local elected officials, all NYC City Councilmembers AND staff should each CARRY their own BPA free water bottles and shun the tiny 8 oz. bottles of Whatever Springs Water that they are offered daily. 10 REASONS to AVOID BOTTLED WATER 1. It is 1000 times more expensive than tap water. 2. It undergoes LESS regulation than TAP WATER. (Tap water IS FAR MORE REGULATED as it undergoes FDA AND EPA standards) 3. Since it is packaged in a PLASTIC or GLASS bottles, I think of the WORK and ENERGY and FOSSIL FUEL required to package and distribute that bottle worldwide. 4. It tastes like PLASTIC. (tap water out performs bottled water on tests after tests, nationwide) 5. Anywhere from 33% - 60% of all bottled water is JUST tap water. (some filtered and some straight from the tap) 6. Fossil fuel is used to make and distribute the finished bottled water. 7. Each year, the amount of oil used required to make the bottles of bottled water, is enough to FUEL 1 million cars. 8. 80% of bottles end up in landfills where they will litter the earth for 1000’s of years. 9. If you choose to recycle the bottle, think of the work, energy, and fossil fuel needed to ready that bottle for recycling. And even then, while those plastic bottles are not yet in landfills, many are DOWNCYCLED, or turned into lesser plastic parts which will eventually end up in a landfill where it will litter the earth for 1000’s of years. 10. I don’t want to appear like an uneducated consumer of foreign fossil fuel products. I’d rather purchase a reusable BPA free bottle and go exclusively for tap water 100% of the time.