I received a response to a letter I wrote to President Barack Obama in 2010, concerning the immigrant visa application of my husband, Roberto Cerda Mendez, who is in Mexico. When I initially wrote to the President, I was in search of help in clearing out my husband’s case. He was unjustly accused of reentering or attempting to reenter the U. S. illegally, which never occurred, and with that allegation, he was denied the opportunity to waive the 10 year penalty. After researching and trying to find a way to clear this matter, my sister advised me to request my husband’s FOIA records. After months of awaiting a response, I finally received an encouraging response. There are no records that show that my husband was ever apprehended by any immigration or border patrol official. Therefore, with this I can prove that what was stated by the consular officer that interviewed him at the U. S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez on September 3, 2009, is false. However, to my disappointment, the officer affirms that my husband stated that he entered, departed, and re-entered the U.S. without inspection under oath. So pretty much there is nothing that can be done although this is plain false. Please help me with this matter. It’s not morally correct for our family to be paying for a consular officer’s mistake and for the government to let him get away with it. I want my husband back in Houston, Texas with me and our children.

Radioactive waste left over from the Manhattan project that is buried in an unlined landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri.

Connecticut Department of Transportation has proposed doubling the fares on the Chester-Hadlyme and Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferries as of July 1. Such a dramatic price increase will undoubtedly discourage use of the ferries and result in decreased ridership, possibly to the point of actually reducing total revenues. DOT should give serious consideration to other alternatives.

For same-sex binational families like mine, America's immigration system tears families apart. Gay and lesbian Americans cannot sponsor their husbands and wives from other countries for immigration and green cards. Until DOMA, Defense of Marriage is gone, UAFA, Uniting American Families Act is our solution. Please support this legislation! Thanks

Hawaii senators and representatives have their office staff tell callers that they don't know how their bosses are going to vote or what their thinking is on an issue. They've been doing this for years. You can leave any comment you want, but you can't find out how they intend to vote. So you can't put pressure on them or criticize them until it's too late. All reps should post their positions/intentions on their web sites and make it available via email.

Oppose "fracking" in California and elsewhere

Hardware and gardening stores in Nevada County are promoting the sale of Monsanto's Round-Up as a weed killer. All for good reason, it's Spring... and, money talks. Though, the community at large supported Prop 37: Label GMO Campaign Legislation. When President Barack Obama signed H.R. 933, Monsanto Protection Act became a Federal mandate giving Monsanto the permission to have complete immunity to commit crimes against small farmers and nature without any judicial checks and balances. The least concerned citizens can do on a local level is boycott Monsanto's Round-Up, and discourage vendors from promoting products, and agricultural practices that are deleterious to the health and safety of our home communities. Please inform your local vendors to remove Round-Up from their shelves, and customers to boycott its sale.

Wherever its been used fracking has created a disaster that has left the community helpless to clean up the problems. This earth is precious to us. It is up to all of us to protect it from the greed of subhuman corporations.

The new led and other light bulbs give me a headache and have mercury in them. I want to purchase the old regular light bulbs that I have used all my life. The EPA has required stores to stop selling these and only sell the new ones.

Every person who would seem to fall under the "column" of LGBTQ are in fact 100% human and deserve 100% equality when it comes to rights and opportunities under the law. Sexual orientation should have nothing to do with any of the considerations or provisions of the Uniting American Families Act or any other such legislation. Senator Feinstein, during a recent exchange in the political arena, you mentioned your proximity to Harvey Milk at the time of his assassination, and the devastating results of the combination of gun violence with prejudice against a politician with an outspoken stance and gay identity. While you have addressed the gun violence aspect of this issue, you should also recognize the volatility of the LGBTQ side of the issue. You, Senator Feinstein, of all people, should know as well as anyone, from your own firsthand accounts, still fresh in your memory, still affecting how you see things in the grander political landscape… you should know how important language and political perception is when it comes to the sexual orientation of those around you and how they are perceived and treated by others. Those of us who are compassionate and seek justice as it protects rights through the rule of law should take a stand and say so out loud, and our legislators who have the time, resources & wherewithal to fight for such rights should absolutely do so on behalf of those who cannot or are afraid for their own health or welfare to try to stand up and speak for themselves on such issues. This is an issue of social and cultural acceptance as well as a matter of language in a legal document. We, the signers of this petition, urge you, Senator Feinstein, to take a stand for the LGBTQ community and make certain that the rights everyone be addressed in such important legislation.

Uniting all families of all people legally in the U.S.

If this Supreme Court decision goes the wrong way America is no longer the "land of the free.!