If genetically modified foods are good enough for me and my family then they should be good enough for whomever resides in The White House. Many people, due to grossly disproportionate government funding, do not have the luxury of being able to simply choose these healthier options for their own family, it should be insulting that their tax dollars should pay for 100% organic gardens at the White House. Their tax dollars should be going towards making these same options easily obtainable for their own family. These are our gardens, we own them, and yet many of us are forced to eat genetically modified foods while we pay for others to have healthier options. This is hardly in the interest of the people.

The Historic Jackson Rooming house is a former boarding house in Tampa centered on Central Avenue. The Jackson house was the only house in the area where African Americans travelers like Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, and James Brown could find accommodations when segregation was in force in the south. Now the city has added thousands of dollars of fines and a short window to fix the building or they will demolish a historic site that was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic places in 2007. There is no rush to destroy history please allow volunteers ample time to get this house up to code.

i have been a server for 23 years and now we having to pay the salaries of busboys and bartenders. we are required to tip out 2.25 % of our sales even when we don't make even 15% of our sales. the IRS has taken away adding 18% gratuity on the bills of large parties..but in reality we hardly ever make that. we must pay taxes on of the sales we make(which if by choice would be small)and we never see a paycheck but we are forced to cover taxes on the people who dont even tip..never mind taking out the insurance we are forced to have. we need someones help please

I was at Whole Foods just before closing one night and the meat counter was almost full. I asked the employee behind the counter what they do with the meat at the end of the day. After me asking "Is it donated? Is it cooked for the salad bar? Is it given to the employees? Is it put out another day?" he acknowledged that, indeed, the expensive meat is thrown away at the end of everyday. The management refused to answer questions about what is wasted.

War is never the answer to conflicting ideas. When both parties are willing to slowly come to some sort of agreement, however small, it is time to give the two countries time to work things out. Please do not make it more difficult for the United States and Iran to come to some sort of agreement.

Target has been scrambling to respond to the company’s massive data breach, which affected up to 110 million consumers. But so far, they’ve fallen short. Instead of working to make sure data breaches never happen again, they've announced a $5 million "financial education" plan and are offering customers a "ProtectMyID" service that does nothing to prevent fraud on existing accounts and may give consumers a false sense of security. Thieves got away with card numbers, expiration dates and security codes. That's a mother lode for fraud on existing accounts. In fact, JPMorgan Chase has decided to re-issue two million cards that are at risk from the breach. They’re taking this threat seriously. So why isn’t Target? Target needs to do a better job of taking responsibility and protecting consumers from the threat they created. First, they should agree to provide full restitution to all of their consumers who actually become victims of fraud or identity theft as a result of the breach. Second, they should inform consumers that they have a legal right to place a security freeze on their credit reports – that’s the only real way to stop identity theft. And third, they should promptly upgrade their systems to meet the highest industry standards for security.

Our country has already spent way too much (in terms of money and lives) , we cannot afford another war in the Middle East. President Obama's deal with Iran is the best chance to avoid war. Do not force these sanctions and undermine a real chance for peace (or better understanding between our two countries).

Because I know what kind of Hell it is when there are no jobs, and to have insult added to injury by having wicked people call you lazy. And when I think that those unemployed people have children that will go hungry, it makes my blood boil.

The Obama administration has for years pushed a dangerous “All of the Above” energy plan focused on more drilling, more fracking, and more pipelines and handouts for dirty fuels. In President Obama's election night victory speech last fall, he said to large applause: "We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” But unfortunately an “All of the Above” energy plan that includes drilling for more oil, fracking for more gas, and pursuing the myth of “clean coal” virtually guarantees increasing climate change, and a dangerous world left for our children. Even the International Energy Agency has said we have more carbon than we can afford to burn and the US oil boom won't lead to energy independence, in its World Energy Outlook. The investments the oil industry alone is making right now, in line with an “All of the Above” approach, will put us on a path of climate change that goes well beyond the limits for a safe planet. Promoting an All of the Above energy plan that includes increased drilling for oil and gas, while also pushing forward much-needed policies to address greenhouse gas emissions simply won't work. That’s like trying to climb out of a hole with one hand while digging yourself deeper in with the other. We need to stop digging. Ahead of the anticipated announcment of new plans to tackle climate change by the Obama administration, President Obama has an important opportunity to reevaluate the “All of the Above” energy plans and design a new plan that can live up to his own aim: "an America that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."

The potential impact is dangerous when we look at the lack of regulation, oversight and willingness to put safety over profits. The negative track record of oil companies to put human and environmental safety over profits needs to stop. Sign this petition to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and send it to as many people as you can.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working on reforms to the outdated and flawed regulations governing oil spill dispersants for more than 13 years, but the Office of Management and Budget has yet to take up its required review. It’s time to move this process along and publish the rule! The systemic flaws in the existing dispersant regulations became tragically clear during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Because the existing regulations do not require adequate testing and disclosure of information about the dispersants that are allowed to be used, responders authorized the spraying of 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico with no knowledge of those chemicals’ long-term impacts and effectiveness underwater. Those impacts are still reverberating through the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem today, as studies raise troubling concerns about the damage the dispersants have done to underwater marine life. The need for reform of the flawed dispersant regulations is well-established and widely-accepted. The national commission on the Deepwater Horizon incident recommended a revision of the dispersant regulations in its Report to the President. The EPA itself has acknowledged the need for, and sense of urgency around, a reform of the current dispersant regulations. Yet, nearly four years after the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon, the government is still dragging its heels in reforming the dispersant regulations to require more testing and information submission. This delay puts coastal communities at risk. Tell the EPA and OMB to hurry up already and publish revisions to the dispersant regulations.

I do not want Congress to give Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a blank check to draw America into another senseless - and in this case unnecessary - war in the Middle East. America cannot afford another war and war with Iran would be far more disastrous than Iraq and Afghanistan combined with unforeseeable consequences.