The state of California needs a long-term strategy to supply metro areas with an ongoing need for water for municipal purposes. The reservoirs of the northern part of the state should be preserved for agricultural use, recreational uses like fishing and boating. The state's history of wet and dry cycles is well documented and not likely to change. Therefore the time to act is now.

To save lives

On February 3, a Duke Energy coal ash pond ruptured—spilling more than 80,000 tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River. That’s enough toxic sludge to fill 73 Olympic-sized pools. In the past year, three Clean Water Act lawsuits were filed against Duke Energy—and each time, the North Carolina Department of the Environment and Natural Resources blocked any federal enforcement by intervening to craft a toothless “settlement.” It’s no wonder. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory worked at Duke Energy for 28 years. Sign our petition to Gov. McCrory: Stop protecting polluters and poisoning your own people. Allow the federal authorities to do their job enforcing the Clean Water Act.

Sen. Claire McCaskill is doing the unthinkable—caving to pressure from military brass and siding with Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham to filibuster a bill that offer new protections to victims of sexual assault in the military. There’s an epidemic of sexual assaults in the military, with over 26,000 cases reported in 2012 alone. Worse still, one in five women in the military has been the victim of unwanted sexual contact, but the majority of cases have gone unreported to the chain of command—a system that has repeatedly failed to stand up for victims. A coalition of nearly 60 senators from across the political spectrum—from Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren to Rand Paul and Ted Cruz—have come together to tackle this crisis head-on. They support taking the power to prosecute sexual assaults out of the hands of military commanders and giving it to impartial and independent prosecutors, a system most of America’s allies already use. But the powerful military lobby opposes major reform—and Claire McCaskill is siding with them.

A well balanced trained dog that you are able to control with the use of an e collar is safer than a dog that is out of control on a leash.

Skaters of chapin and surrounding have no place to skate without being kicked out or screamed at. Closest place at a park in the city of Columbia and it's just to far away to travel there every weekend so let's get this buit to have a safe place skaters can go and be dropped of without questioning safety.

There is people that were born, grew up and lived their entire life using these public lands (Organ Mountains). Some even make their living off of these public lands, by leasing the land from the BLM. We don't want this land to become a national monument. President Obama please do not sign the bill to turn the Organ Mountains into a National Monument.

"Entergy" is the only electric service provider option for consumers in New Orleans. A fairer way to equalize the billing would be to offer other service providers. This is not a dictatorship.

Carol Parker and her mother were long-time congregants at St. Columban Catholic Church in Chillicothe, MO, so when her mother died, it was only natural that her funeral would be held there. Carol never guessed that she’d be denied communion at her mother’s funeral Mass simply because she's a lesbian. When the local priest read Carol’s mom’s obituary, he learned that Carol was in a committed relationship with her female partner. He then told Carol and her partner that he would refuse to serve them communion. Imagine receiving the news that, despite over ten years of active membership in the church, including singing in the choir, and volunteering as a cantor and a lector, you would be excluded from communion at your own mother’s funeral. When the exact same thing happened in another diocese two years ago, the priest was subsequently removed from ministry. So let’s stand with Carol and her partner in their time of grief, and make sure the local bishop and the media see how many people are appalled by this hateful discrimination.

The recent reports of excessive, unnecessary salaries and wasteful capital spending at the Queens Library are deeply disturbing and have hurt the Library’s public service. Since 2008, the Queens Library’s President/CEO Thomas Galante has not hired a full-time public service staff member, including librarians, clerks, custodians and computer technicians resulting in the loss of over 150 public service staff, 44 layoffs and the contracting out of custodial services. His actions have resulted in less hours, fewer programs, dirtier libraries, slower services and demoralized staff. With the money used for excessive salaries and unnecessary capital projects, the Library can hire more public service staff who provide free materials, programs, computers, wifi, clean and safe libraries to thousands of diverse Queens Library users every day. Mayor de Blasio and Borough President Katz keep Queens Library one of the best library systems in the World and tell your Queens Library trustees to have the Library rehire the 44 and hire more full-time public service staff.

We cannot force these Companies to bring back our jobs, but we should not subsidize, or support Companies that do export American Jobs. When jobs are shipped overseas there are fewer Tax Payers to take up the slack for the massive tax breaks these Companies already receive.

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