The MN Prosperity (Dream) Act passed in the Senate. Now the Conference Committee (made up of House and Senate members) is debating its inclusion in the Higher Education Omnibus Bill. Tell the committee members that you want all qualified Minnesota students to have access to in-state tuition AND the opportunity to apply for MN state grants.

Fracking is an unregulated, lethal, toxic gas/oil extraction process exempted from the Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Drinking Water, Superfund, Environmental Policy Acts. Exempt means they are not liable for and are immune from any claims of any damages or harm inflicted on the environment, homeowners, landowners, municipalities, food crops, farm animals, ground water, aquifers, rivers, streams, air, ecosystems as a result of their operation which has a history of devastating and deadly accidents, spills, and explosions.

I watched VICE on HBO. They did a short story on radiation sickness and birth defects in areas that saw heavy fighting. Fields were strewn with bombed out vehicles. People have been coming down with radiation sickness and there is a rise in birth defects.

Big donors are going to be putting a lot more money in our elections, and that means they’re going to have a lot more chits to call in once one of those candidates is elected. Gabriel Gomez will not sign the people's pledge which calls for not using highly funded corporate super PAC sponsors to pour large donations to flood our televisions and radio stations which negative extremely biased political ads. Ed Markey running for senate in Massachusetts had signed the people's pledge. The people’s pledge significantly reduces outside money, it significantly reduces outside advertising, it limits dark or secret money in our elections and it boosted the role of small donors. Elizabeth Warren counted on her grassroot supporters. And the playing field should be even fair and square!

The repeal of Ohio constitutional amendment 1, which bans same sex marriages in Ohio.

The gas and oil industries have their eyes on at least 17 counties in southern Illinois, as prospects for fracking. Myths about “clean” energy must be dispelled. Those living in the vicinity of where fracking is done have suffered deaths of their animals, have unexplained illnesses, constant headaches, nausea, and deaths. The unleashed methane has caused water faucets, when turned on, to become “blow torches,” and even homes to explode. Wells have exploded. Millions of gallons of water coupled with toxic chemicals are used to inject into rock formations to break them up, the “run-offs” of which foul our waters . . . .and where is the end to water befoulment? Fracking also can cause earthquakes. Fracking is just plain dangerous to our environment period!

I have come aware that Equifax has outsourced it's customer service to a foreign country. Identify theft is the fastest growing crime in America according to the FBI and Equifax may be helping this crime proliferate by turning all your personal financial information, including your social security number and where you live, over to those who are not American citizens. Tell Equifax to stop this immediately and all credit reporting bureaus to refrain from such practices in the future.

The neglect of our local riparian habitats must stop. Implementation of BNWR's mandated purpose must occur through a broad and transparent application of water management- going beyond the present insufficient regard as proposed in the initial Comprehensive Conservation Plan- Environmental Impact Study (EIS)

The banks own our properties and contracted a lease to own arrangement with us that gives them unconscionable revenue from the interest we pay for the privilege of maintaining these properties for them. The banks should be held accountable for these no-risk loans and be made to pay their fair share based on the percentage of the property that they own. If they own all of the property and the property has no equity then they should pay all of the maintenance costs based on the fact that they are the sole owner and that the said property owner has no equity to borrow on.

Apple Computers, while benefiting from our great American infrastucture, financed by your taxes and mine, is actively and shamefully evading paying its own taxes. This is a disgrace, and a terrible precedent for others. We the people must at least speak out and change this increasingly common tax dodging.

The USDA wants to speed up the chicken processing line in poultry plants; in order to do that they would have to use even more chemicals so that even diseased chickens would be included. A poultry processing worker has already died from his lungs bleeding out; yet, the USDA wants to use more of these chemicals none of which have been vetted by them or the FDA?! In addition, they want to decrease their inspectors by 40%.

I am a disabled R.N. I paid for disability insurance for years to my employer VITAS HEALTHCARE, INC. , a hospice nursing agency. These employer funded ERISA policies are fraudulently presented to employees in that they almost NEVER pay claims for more than 2 years and not until age 65 as implied. Congress has allowed insurance companies to prevent workers from getting full compensation for disability and a trial by jury for denied claims.