Congress has 6 days scheduled before the Sep. 30 budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Lamar Smith to prioritize expanding the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly, he may join with Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan and support more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

He often takes a position of moral superiority concerning politics and should be careful about throwing stones living in a glass house!

Amnesty International has called on authorities in Honduras to drop spurious charges against three indigenous leaders, Bertha (Berta) Cáceres, Tomás Gómez and Aureliano Molina. If the three leaders are imprisoned, Amnesty said it will consider them prisoners of conscience. There have been increasing attacks against human rights defenders in the country ahead of presidential elections in November, Amnesty said. “Defending human rights in Honduras has become a life-threatening activity with Indigenous leaders protecting their peoples’ rights, being particularly vulnerable to attack,” said Nancy Tapias Torrado, Researcher on Human Rights Defenders in the Americas at Amnesty International. “It is clear that Bertha Cáceres is being harassed in order to stop her from defending the rights of the Lenca Indigenous Peoples,” said Nancy Tapias Torrado. Urge President Obama and Congress to use U.S. influence to press the Honduran government to drop the spurious charges. Reference: Honduran Indigenous leaders at risk of unfair imprisonment http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/honduras-indigenous-leaders-2013-09-19

Congress has 5 days scheduled before the Sep. 30 budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Mike Coffman to stop playing games and stand with the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly and hold him accountable, he and other House Republicans will keep proposing more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

Congress has 5 days scheduled before the Sep. 30 budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Mike Coffman to stop playing games and stand with the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly and hold him accountable, he and other House Republicans will keep proposing more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

Persons with disabilities aren't able to enter Congressman Cleaver's Kansas City office without first notifying him that We're coming. Whereas other members of the public are able to stop in and speak with the Congressman or his staff anytime the office is open.

Congress has until September 30 to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Tom McClintock to prioritize expanding the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly, he may join with Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan and support more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

I, like many people, love Rosa Mexicano.. No Latin meal is complete without a desert of Tres Leches (3 milk cake). Rosa Mexicano has (had) the absolutle BEST Tres Leches available anywhere in the United States and for some unknown reason REMOVED it from the menu.. and kept, doughnuts?? Leave the doughnuts to Dunkin and BRING BACK TRES LECHES!!!!

Rony Ramos-Carrasco, father of two United States citizens and a model community leader with no criminal history, is current sitting in detention at a correctional facility in Louisiana. He desperately needs your help to get back home. One of Rony's young children, five-year-old Amy, has had a complicated medical history and needs her father's presence here in the US to help with her medical expenses. But to make matters worse, Rony's partner Yohana recently had emergency surgery and has been unable to care for their children on her own. Yohana was able to get some help from a relative to complete tasks as simple as carrying her one-year-old son Jake, but her relative could only stay with her for so long. Yohana needs your help bringing Rony back home where he belongs. Please sign this petition to get Rony out of detention -- he is counting on you. According to policies set by President Obama, there are multiple reasons Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should release Rony from detention – reasons the local ICE office has ignored. Not only is he the father of two United States citizens, but he's also the “primary caretaker of a person with a mental or physical disability.” Five-year-old Amy's medical history has been confirmed in a letter by her pediatrician, and now she's even been diagnosed with depression as a direct result of her father's detention. But ICE has ignored these factors before, having deported Rony twice already. But Rony has been determined to not let his family suffer without him. He returned back to the US because little Amy was undergoing surgery and needed her father's support, both financially and emotionally. And as the sole breadwinner, Rony knows his family's entire wellbeing depends on him being in the US to work. When Congress passes immigration reform, Rony may qualify for immigration status and eventually citizenship. This is all the more reason for ICE to step in now and release Rony until Congress can finish its job.

Year in and year out we try to learn as much as possible in the shortest amount of time. This year, we don't have a place to do so. We want to have a space available 24 hours a day so that we can come and be able to ask our peers last minute questions at any time of day and know that there is a place that this can be done in. Help us be the best we can be!

My name is Laine Scheuble and I was involved in a very serious accident on this currently two-way intersection with non-stop traffic running North, and South. While the stop runs East and West. This is less than a block from Spectrum High School which is 6-12 and I want no one from this school to ever have even the slightest possibility to get into an accident like I did.

This man should be inducted. He was the first Rock N Roll teen idol. The Partridge Family was Music TV. David's outstanding voice and memorable recordings have meant a great deal to many people over four decades. His musical contributions have been, and continue to be, a crucial, special and important part of rock culture. The energy and excitement around his work has allowed him to be at the forefront of the industry for more than 40 years. There is something magical that happens when a star like David emerges, when something or someone captures the imagination of millions of people. It is something that goes beyond a hit record: it touches the world musically and culturally. David was at the epicentre of this, certainly in the 1970s when the whole world went crazy for him and his exceptional singing voice, and he has been an artist not just of the 70s, but the 80s, 90s and the 2000s. No one, least of all David himself, expected that level of success but talent will always shine through. It will always last. In each decade he has been completely in tune with the times and in the 1970s was the most popular and idolised solo performer worldwide in the history of popular music. You can wait around and hope but you will never see the likes of David Cassidy again. Musically, his influence on other artists, the quality of his work, the variety of the David Cassidy Songbook, his constant desire to be creative complemented by the leading writers and musicians he has worked with "many actually asked to work with him“ is testament to how much his peers value his work. Ultimately he has always remained true to himself, and the orchestral hallmarks of his solo arrangements on many David Cassidy album tracks provide further illustration of his genius in the recording studio. David has written many, many songs through which he has expressed some pretty raw emotions allowing his music to tell the story of his life and loves. He paints a wonderful, absorbing picture with his voice, a masterpiece in itself worthy of such an accolade as this. The content of his songwriting has helped him to navigate a path through difficult personal experiences, revealing some exceptional work, and allowing a generation to find themselves. New fans constantly discover him for the first time and that speaks volumes about his music. His work has gone unrecognised for too long. Without the PF, David Cassidy as a singer would not exist. Without him there would have been no PF musical legend which helped launch his outstandingly successful singing career. Thanks to his persistence in allowing him to sing in the series which became a phenomenon in itself, there is no question his unique voice played a pivotal role in its success. In 1970, his first recording, 'I Think I Love You,' was the biggest selling single outselling classic recordings such as 'Let It Be' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. It was voted Single of the Year. Written by some of the world's best songwriters, the PF songs have their own place in pop history thanks to David's delivery of the lyrics and his vocal range. He could work wonders with any song. They remain some of the most under-rated songs in pop history and it cannot be any coincidence that some of the songwriters who contributed to that success are already inducted into the Hall of Fame. When he stepped out of the shadow of such teenage idolatry to prove his worth as a solo performer, musician (piano, guitar and drums) and songwriter, David attracted a great deal of respect setting the standard for many male solo singers to follow. Often imitated, never duplicated. The man knows how to entertain, a born showman. David was profoundly influenced by many of the great singers, groups and songwriters he grew up listening to and like them, his music will continue to mean something many years from now. As a solo artist David has written and performed what have become some of the greatest rock songs and entertained millions across the world with his electric, spellbinding concerts. All his music, be it the voice of the PF or from his solo albums, are constantly played proof they are standing the test of time. David has written, and sung, everything from ballads to rock, jazz to pop and while his musical work on Broadway, London's West End, and Las Vegas along with his composition of TV themes cannot be underestimated showing his incredible versatility, it is his unique contribution to rock and roll, which is what this is all about. His fan base worldwide was bigger at its height in the 1970s than those of Elvis and The Beatles, and there remains a loyal fan base. That says a great deal about his appeal and popularity, of course, but his longevity in the business is unlikely to be matched by many of today's solo artists. It would be just fitting, and so right, for a great American such as David, to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame where his part in rock history can be cemented. Historically, David's contribution to music over the past 40 years, has to be recognized.