The information in this section applies to all, but the sexist title, "She Says" omits all the men, dads, single dads, as well as turns off many women in favor of equality for both genders. Tell "The Forum" this isn't the 1950s and demand they step into the 21st century by giving this section of their paper a gender-neutral title such as "Family" or "Lifestyle". Thanks much!!

There is nothing more important to democracy than free and fair elections. The Republican Party has been doing everything it can, from gerrymandered districts to opening up new hidden ways for special interests to funnel money into elections without exposure, to the new restrictive voting laws. Elections in North Carolina are no longer open, fair, nor conducted in the interest of the people, but rather the rich, the corporations and the morality authorocrats, in short, the Republican Party

Our Junction City Baseball/Softball Field is subject to being used as a parking lot and camping area for events that are too large to be at the Park area only. We want a stop to this as to it effects the grounds in which our children and adults play on.

For too long, The Washington Post has misled readers by publishing climate denial alongside accurate science, like consistently publishing op-eds that claim that climate change is an elaborate collectivist plot and that there is no evidence that the planet is warming — but all of that could change this year. The founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, just bought The Washington Post, and he’s looking to make big changes that could revolutionize the dying newspaper industry. What’s more, Bezos has made it clear he intends to listen to his audience; he wrote, “Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about – government, local leaders, restaurant openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports – and working backwards from there.” Bezos’ plan to reinvent the news industry based on readers is an incredible opportunity to make honest climate coverage an essential part of the modern newspaper. But there needs to be a strong demand from the public to convince him to not go down the same path of the old Washington Post and continue publishing climate denial. Bezos proved at Amazon.com that he’s focused on consumers and what they want, which is why we’re sending our message directly to him. Jeff Bezos: readers demand accurate climate coverage.

Please return Chuy Gomez to his weekday mornings shifts on KMEL. This petition was made by Bay Area listeners in hopes that the senior Executives at Clear Channel will reverse their decision and review the importance and entertainment value of Chuy Gomez to Bay Area radio, respective listeners, and the KMEL brand. "We're sticking together as a Bay Area community so if you see this, it's because we support the man from KMEL who helped in your community and even helped a lot of you Bay Area Artist."- Long time listener ‪#‎BayAreaAmbassador‬ ‪#‎MrKMEL‬ ‪#‎BayAreasFinest‬ Please return Chuy Gomez to his weekday mornings shifts on KMEL. This petition was made by Bay Area listeners in hopes that the senior Executives at Clear Channel will reverse their decision and review the importance and entertainment value of Chuy Gomez to Bay Area radio, respective listeners, and the KMEL brand.

"World-renowned American author Alice Walker has been disinvited from giving a speech at the University of Michigan because a donor objects to her views on Israel, the agent negotiating the contract was told. Walker, the Pultizer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, posted on her blog an excerpt of a letter from the agent informing her that the invitation to keynote the 50th anniversary celebration of the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan had been withdrawn." -"Alice Walker disinvited from University of Michigan over ‘Israel comments’" http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/alice-walker-disinvited-university-michigan-over-israel-comments Urge the University of Michigan to reverse this decision and re-invite Walker.

I took my 1 year old daughter (who is walking, exploring, putting everything in her mouth) to the East Asheville Playground and there were City of Asheville employees there spraying ROUND UP everywhere. I mean everywhere: all over the mulch (which she loves to play with and it often ends up in her mouth), all around the equipment, coating the entire place. I took my daughter and left -[with a headache and tightness in my lungs] - enraged that this would be allowed. Please help me to urge the city to find other [non-toxic] ways to maintain and keep up our parks and playgrounds!

I took my 1 year old daughter (who is walking, exploring, putting everything in her mouth) to the East Asheville Playground and there were City of Asheville employees there spraying ROUND UP everywhere. I mean everywhere: all over the mulch (which she loves to play with and it often ends up in her mouth), all around the equipment, coating the entire place. I took my daughter and left -[with a headache and tightness in my lungs] - enraged that this would be allowed. Please help me to urge the city to find other [non-toxic] ways to maintain and keep up our parks and playgrounds!

I recently sold my house in Glenwood Springs because it sits on the edge of the lower Roaring Fork River, threatened by possible hydraulic fracturing in the Thompson Divide. My property value plummeted since the doubling of oil and gas development around my home in the past ten years. Spills of "hydrocarbons" around Parachute Creek are still producing measures of benzene in that creek. I'm calling on President Obama to halt the industry's practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, until it can be done WITHOUT toxic chemicals. Since moving to Colorado in 1991, I've seen the public lands I used to swim, bike, hike, and backcountry ski closed to me. No longer can I hike in areas off Grand Mesa or bike outside of Paonia due to gates erected to keep me out of the public lands my taxes support. I don't swim in the North Fork of the Gunnison for fear of water contamination from hydraulic fracturing in areas whose creeks feed this river. I used to lead my students through the back roads and trails of Grand Mesa, on skis, bikes, and on foot. The vistas were spectacular as we hiked the Crag Crest Trail or rode our bikes out to Lands End. Now, the industry's heavy equipemnt and haul trucks create bottle-necks along I-70 and county roads. As a DJ on my community public radio station, KDNK, in Carbondale, Colorado, I played Woodie Guthrie's song, "This Land is Your Land" on the 4th of July this year. I dedicated the song to all my listeners, and to all the politicians who have lost sight of what democracy means. It inspired me to start this petition. President Obama is about to issue his first major policy on fracking. The Bureau of Land Management has issued draft rules for fracking on 600 million acres of public and Indian lands, like those near me in Colorado. Unfortunately, these rules are straight out of the oil and gas industry's playbook. The provisions on disclosure of the toxic chemicals used in fracking were written by ExxonMobil and taken straight from model bills peddled by ALEC, the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council. And the draft rules do nothing to protect watersheds that provide drinking water to millions of people. Close to 1,000,000 comments were submitted on August 23 to the Bureau of Land Management, and on August 22, anti-fracking leaders hand-delivered our comments to the BLM in Washington, D.C. Keep this petition moving! Share your voice.

In Virginia, we have a gubernatorial race that is shaping up to be a leading example of what it is like to have no choice. However, the reality of the situation is: we do have a choice. There is man named Rob Sarvis running for governor on the Libertarian ticket, but most Virginians haven't even heard of him yet. I have met the man and he is the real deal. His credentials are on the Internet and they are impressive. I want us to have a real choice this year, help me get this man into the debates by pressuring the hosts of the debates.

My ex-son-in-law was killed in a motorcycle accident Jan 2013. He named his on-again-off-again girlfriend as beneficiary during company re-enrollment in the fall of 2012. He has two minor children. The girlfriend received $401,000 in life insurance and AD&D benefits. She will not share the money with his children. I would like to see something changed in the law so that when a person has minor children they MUST be named beneficiaries in order that a trust can be set up for them and they receive the proceeds of the insurance coverage.

So many good, hardworking people that I know are ready to do whatever it takes to get on a path to citizenship. The senate's bill gives them a path. It give's them a chance to keep their families together, and gives our country the chance to bring millions of our de facto residents out of the shadows and into our larger community.