It was recently reported that the Department of Economic and Community Development has been hiring children and other close relatives of employees for high paying summer jobs within the department. The child of one employee is being paid $14 an hour, and made over $12,000 last summer. There are a limited number of these jobs, just 13, and 3 of them went to family members this summer. These jobs were unadvertised, so locals that might have been interested and qualified didn't even have the chance to apply. This simply isn't right. The DECD should have to perform a fair and open search to fill these positions. Tell the DECD to stop giving out jobs to their employees relatives.

I was very bothered when I read the paper this morning. A author Amber Dee Parker wrote a book for little kids to explain to them why it's wrong to be gay and teaches little kids to pray for gay peoples sins. She is scheduled to speak at Barnes&Noble today in Lincoln, NE. This petition is not asking Barnes&Noble to stop selling this book. This petition is asking Barnes&Noble to STOP endorsing authors who marginalizes members of society. I want Barnes&Noble to cancel Amber Dee Parker's event. This is taken from the July, 20 2013 Lincoln Journal Star Online copy. The book in a nutshell Amber Dee Parker's “God Made Dad & Mom” tells the story of a biracial boy named Michael who asks his father why his friend Jimmy has two dads. The story follows Michael through the day as he learns about family at parochial school, including the Bible passage Genesis 1:27: “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." And later, on a surprise trip to the zoo, his father shows him even animals have fathers and mothers. Along the way, Michael learns that he, like his friend Jimmy, was adopted, but by a mother and a father. The storybook ends with Michael and his father praying for his friend’s dads -- and that they ask God for forgiveness of their sins.

Through the hottest days of the year, workers at the 27 West Lake Dunkin Donuts were forced to work long hours, through the heat of the day, without air conditioning. After days of feeling sick, tired and dizzy they had enough and went on strike until the unsafe conditions were resolved. Thousands of workers are experiencing the same unsafe conditions and Dunkin Donuts should make their safety their number one priority.

My son and his two uncles have been languishing behind bars in Maryland, USA, for 22 years for a crime they did not commit. We now have irrefutable evidence to prove this but we lack the financial resources to get it back into court. Please help us bring our family home.

NEVADANS: Do You Consume GMOs? Do your Children? HOW DO YOU KNOW? At age 32, after having a complete hysterectomy due to my chronic pain, bleeding & inflammation, I began to research. Now, ten years later, I have read, studied and kept up with Medical cause and effect findings of GMOs.

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GMOs should be labeled in North Dakota. People should have the right to know where their food is coming from and how their food has been grown. When buying fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, one has the right to know if the product has been genetically modified.

We ask all the people; members of our Congressional body and the President of the United States to support the Anti-Defamation Legacy Law Advocates or AdLLAaw (Ad Law) Initiative. Originally we thought to start with California. The California Courts Judicial Council created a draft Initiative. Although, prepared for California the language of this document states clearly what we wish to see become law on a national level. http://antidefamationlegacylawadvocates.org/2013/07/18/anti-defamation-legacy-law-advocates-adllaw-initiative/ The purpose of this Initiative is to bring about legislation which will include the deceased among those who can be legally defamed giving their family a statute upon which to base a civil cause of action. We see this law as any other civil action. Such a law would be neither frivolous nor a magic pill to cure all ills, but a possible deterrent against slandering a decedent for most or a possible tool to address more serious offenders. Within the past 10 years the list of decedents who are egregiously defamed surpasses what is common or usual or expected. The list ranges from the famous to the non-famous. We are blessed with many rights (especially those of us who are Americans), but with them come responsibilities to ensure we do no harm to others through our dangerous behavior. Intentional defamation of a decedent does more than just hurt their survivor’s feelings; it can endanger their health and welfare through false public perception, judgments and actions taken. We hold dear our First Amendment rights, but there is nothing in our Constitution about bearing false witness as a legal right. We urge you to support the Anti-Defamation Legacy Law (AdLLaw) Initiative. http://antidefamationlegacylawadvocates.org/

Just when you thought another give away to the gas drillers couldn’t be possible, pro-drilling cronies in the U.S. Congress find a way – this time truncating the level of environmental review and resulting protections given to interstate pipelines, and providing automatic approvals when short time limits are not met. Pipelines are an indelible cut across the landscape -- through the power of eminent domain for private properties and political persuasion for public lands, they secure the right to cut our forests, pollute our water, contaminate our air, exacerbate climate change, damage jobs, and make our communities less safe. They need to be subject to the same laws as everyone else.

In the middle of a heat wave like this, to be expected to stand in a hot kitchen with no air conditioning is inhumane and unsafe. One of my coworkers had to be taken out in an ambulance. We are human beings. We've told McDonald's before that the air conditioning doesn't work and that we can't take the heat but they don't listen to us. We can't take it anymore. No one should have to work like this. That’s why we’re fighting for $15 per hour and the right to form a union free from retaliation.