Honey bees, native bees and other pollinators are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that make up 90 percent of the world’s food supply. Many fruits and vegetables, including apples, blueberries, strawberries, carrots and broccoli, as well as almonds and coffee, rely on bees. These beneficial insects are critical in maintaining our diverse food supply. Honey bee populations have been in alarming decline since 2006. Widespread use of a new class of toxic pesticides, neonicotinoids, is a significant contributing factor. In addition to killing bees outright, research has shown that even low levels of these dangerous pesticides impair bees' ability to learn, to find their way back to the hive, to collect food, to produce new queens, and to mount an effective immune response. Despite the mounting evidence, the EPA has delayed action until 2018. Last week 15 European countries imposed a two-year restriction on the use of several of these chemicals. Bees in America can't wait five more years – they are dying now. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the power and responsibility to protect our pollinators and must take action now. Our nation's food system depends on it.

Every time there is a mass shooting, gun control legislation is proposed, people hurry to buy guns, and the gun industry profits. When the Commonwealth invests pension funds in gun manufacturers they are also profiting from the death of innocent people. Massachusetts can do better.

Persuade Wal-Mart to adopt a plan to recover food that is still fit for human consumption but is currently being thrown in the dumpster. Wal-Mart does a wonderful job with its food bank partnerships. But 1 in 6 people across America, once the most powerful country in the world, are going hungry in today’s rocky global economy. 96 billion pounds of food, 25 percent of the food supply ends up in the garbage each year. Grocers often toss products like dented canned goods, ripped boxes of cereal, bread, dairy and meat near or at the expiration date in the trash to make room for inventory. Help us work with Wal-Mart to set a standard for grocers around the world to recover this waste and aid national hunger – reducing costs for Wal-Mart, the environment and economy. Dream Big, Act Bigger. More info: https://www.causes.com/campaigns/70833-convince-wal-mart-to-work-w-local-leaders-to-cut-food-waste

MY BROTHER IN-LAW WAS PUT IN JAIL BACK IN 2002 OR 2003 FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT HE JUST WOULD NOT SNITCH ON WHO DID. HE WAS GIVE 36 YEARS WITH 12 RUNNING WILD(THEY COULD ADD 12 YEARS TO HIS SENTENCE) HE HAS BEEN IN THERE SINCE HE WAS YOUNG. HE HAS DONE A LOT OF GROWING UP AND DESERVES A CHANCE. HE HAS A 12 YEAR OLD SON WITH DOWNS SYNDROME THAT NEEDS HIM IN HIS LIFE AS WELL AS HIM NEEDING HIS SON IN HIS. HE WAS PUT IN PRISON WHEN LARRY WAS JUST A YEAR OLD. THERE ARE PEOPLLE WHO HAVE KILLED PEOPLE THAT GOT LESS TIME THAN LARRY. PLEASE HELP HIS MOTHER PAT ELLIS AND FATHER LARRY SR TO GET THEIR SON HOME. THEY BOTH HAVE ILLNESSES THAT CAN NOT BE CURED. PLEASE IM BEGGING EVERY ONE TO PLEASE HELP BRING LARRY HOME. THANK YOU. LUCILLE LEONA SHUEY(REEVES)

Children as young as 5 years old are experiencing test anxiety due to standardized testing. Dallas ISD is over-testing our children. Standardized tests do not improve student achievement and are not a reliable way to measure a students or teachers abilities. My tax dollars should not be spent on standardized tests.

In light of all the gun violence in Colorado, it is time to divest from the gun industry.

We believe that the solution to violence is compassion and connection, which can be taught through the Nonviolent Communication, which teaches us to explore the needs we have that are not being met and lead to conflict. We believe that through mandatory classes that teach us to have empathy for each other through understanding our needs and others' needs behind the issues of conflict, nonviolent solutions that satisfy our joint needs can be discovered. Violence affects us all in our society, and education is a major key to ending it.

CSGO Tournament to be held at TAMPA ESPORTS LAN 2014. Sign the petition to show your interest!!!

Credit reports were originally developed to assist financial creditors in considering the degree of risk involved in lending assets to would-be borrowers. Over time, however, employers began using personal credit histories as a means to assess job worthiness and character. Today nearly half of all employers conduct credit checks as a condition of employment, including for a number of non-financial jobs such as home aide services, maintenance, and telephone technical support. Job candidates and employees have limited legal recourse to object to this practice. No definitive body of research correlates the usage of employment credit checks, and poor credit histories specifically, to any real or perceived measure of job performance. Poor credit most significantly reflects one or a combination of three challenges: unemployment, a lack of health insurance, and medical debt. Employment credit checks benefit no one. They do not separate productive versus unproductive workers. They do not speak to employee competence. They cannot predict illegal behaviors while on the job, nor can they assess individual responsibility away from it. The material effects of employment credit checks are nothing for anyone to be proud of. Individual privacy is invaded. Poor and/or minority candidates are disproportionately discriminated against. As a result, able-bodied workers remain excluded from the workforce, which keeps them from earning the very income that they need in order to improve upon the credit histories that impair their job prospects. Employment in America should not operate in this manner. No American should live in fear of being passed over for gainful employment due to circumstances that stand beyond their control and are largely unrelated to their potential job performance. Senator Elizabeth Warren seeks to put an end to the practice of employment credit checks, through the Equal Employment for All Act. Stand in support of this cause by signing this petition today!

Ronald Reagan may have had other accomplishments during his presidency but we do not believe his record on hospice/palliative care is compatible with including him on a list of visionaries especially in relation to the AIDS pandemic. Quite the opposite. We are asking you at AAHPM to remove his name from your list. Reagan was included on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) list of visionaries because “he signed legislation that established the Medicare hospice benefit”. For those of you who were not around during the early days of the AIDS pandemic here is a little background information: • By the time Ronald Reagan first said the word "AIDS" in public, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died. The disease had spread to 113 countries, with more than 50,000 cases. * In 1986 he called for a reduction in AIDS spending. * In 1982 Reagan said:"...AIDS information cannot be what some call 'value neutral'. After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don't medicine and morality teach the same lessons." * When family friend William F. Buckley called for mandatory testing and said that HIV-positive men should have the information forcibly tattooed on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their arms) Reagan said nothing. * Between June of 1981 and May of 1982, the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaires Disease...largely in response to an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in 5 men and 2 women on a cruise ship…but they were not gay men. * Dr. C. Everett Koop, Reagan's surgeon general, has said that because of "intradepartmental politics" he was cut out of all AIDS discussions for the first five years of the Reagan administration. The reason, he explained, was "because transmission of AIDS was understood to be primarily in the homosexual population and in those who abused intravenous drugs." Regarding the LGBT movement in general, Reagan said: "My criticism is that [the gay movement] isn't just asking for civil rights; it’s asking for recognition and acceptance of an alternative lifestyle which I do not believe society can condone, nor can I. Shilts, Randy (2005). Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military.

I grew up in a small town in Washington state. That small town—Moses Lake—was made infamous after a deadly school shooting. If it can happen in Moses Lake, believe me, it can happen anywhere. We need common sense gun handling laws to both protect our children where they are most vulnerable, as well as to ensure that responsible gun owners are protected. Sadly, the agenda of some overshadows common sense by manipulating the truth with money. There is no price for keeping our children and their teachers safe. Therefore, with safety and protection as paramount and priceless, let us lead the way for transparency in funding.

A rifle owner from the age of 5, an NRA member at age 14, I am disgusted that the gun manufacturers have taken over the NRA and transformed it into vengeful political extremism. I want to reclaim our proud heritage and to loosen the stranglehold that the gun industry has over our legislators.