Community solar would allow people like me, who don’t own property and who can’t afford to install solar panels by myself, to invest in solar with my neighbors. But now, my neighbors and I don’t have that opportunity because PNM doesn’t want to let us provide our own energy.

Each year, thousands of Colorado youth leave the locker-lined halls of high school, diploma in hand. But they'll be missing something important: a voter registration card and information on how to vote. The Millennial Generation is unique; with the brush of a touchscreen, young Americans are more plugged-in, informed, engaged and involved than ever before. Voter pre-registration engages them with our democracy, encouraging these informed voices to participate. Hawaii, North Carolina, Florida and Maryland are among a growing number of states that allow any future eligible voter to pre-register to vote at age 16. At 18, these pre-registered voters are added to the voter rolls. Voter pre-registration has little-to-no fiscal impact and no particular burden on election officials, but boosts voter registration rates and participation. In Colorado, HB1135 has been introduced to implement voter pre-registration. It needs your support!

Each year, thousands of Washington youth leave the locker-lined halls of high school, diploma in hand. But they'll be missing something important: a voter registration card and information on how to vote. The Millennial Generation is unique; with the brush of a touchscreen, young Americans are more plugged-in, informed, engaged and involved than ever before. Voter pre-registration engages them with democracy, encouraging these informed voices to participate. Hawaii, North Carolina, Florida and Maryland are among a growing number of states that allow any future eligible voter to pre-register to vote at age 16. At 18, these pre-registered voters are added to the voter rolls. Voter pre-registration has little-to-no fiscal impact and no particular burden on election officials, but boosts voter registration rates and participation. In Washington, HB1279 has been introduced to implement voter pre-registration. It needs your support!

Yesterday, a State Senator and a City Councilmember were arrested. Their crime? Allegedly trying to buy an election. There will surely be calls for the arrested officials to resign. But that won't solve the real problem here. We must end the corrupting influence of money in politics, once and for all. Why did they think they could get away with it? "That's politics, that's politics, it's all about how much," the arrested Councilmember explained in a wiretapped conversation. "Not about whether or will, it's about how much, and that's our politicians in New York, they're all like that, all like that. And they get like that because of the drive that the money does for everything else. You can't do anything without the f***ing money." But the problem goes much deeper than bribes. It's the legalized corruption of campaign contributions that really poisons our system. We can't afford to let New York be bought by the highest bidder.

The State Department has assured Congress that millions of U.S. tax dollars given to the Honduran National Police only go to units that don't operate under the direct supervision of Director General Juan Carlos Bonilla, who has been accused of responsibility for extrajudicial killings for which he has never been investigated. But the Associated Press has documented that all Honduran National Police units are under Bonilla's control. Aid to police units under Bonilla's control violate U.S. law. Urge Secretary of State Kerry, President Obama and Congress to end all aid to the Honduran National Police, in compliance with U.S. law. More information: US Aids Honduran Police Despite Death Squad Fears http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/23/world/americas/ap-lt-honduras-death-squads.html Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras' death squad regime? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/30/congress-us-support-honduras-death-squad-regime

In the NCAA basketball tournament, Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome injury: His leg bone literally tore through his skin. While the NCAA makes over $780 million per year off student athletes, they do not guarantee that medical bills for injuries will be covered. Can you sign our petition to the NCAA?

Thanks to the actions of hundreds of supporteres, the $2 million of funding for the CMRT has been preserved in NY State's 2013 budget! But we're not done yet -- the planning process now shifts to the county level. Please sign our new petition to be delivered to our leaders here in Ulster County, asking them to make constructing the Catskill Mountain Rail Trail a top priority.

My name is Preston Chavers and I have been unemployed for over a year. I was recently denied work because of poor credit history and was denied work with a national insurance company. How does the employer expect people to clean up their credit history and pay off bills/loans if they cannot get a job and work to pay off their debt. This is a very unfair practice and it needs to be stopped. Please sign this petition and tell our policy makers to stop our companies from using a persons credit history as a deciding factor in hiring people.

Oil and gas development has increased dramatically in the Front Range in recent years. In Central & Western Adams County, the greatest health risk is air quality from the large number of wells in Weld County to our north. There are also dangers to water quality from spills and leaks. The COGCC (Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission) has a dual role to regulate AND PROMOTE the industry. There are seven bills in the Colorado State House & Senate to fix these problems. Please sign the petition & tell our Representatives that you support this legislation.

People are eating infected fish and becoming infected themselves with the poullution that infected the fish. this has to stop

***VICTORY!*** Sen. Carper has come out for Marriage Equality! Sen. Tom Carper has announced his support for marriage equality. Thank you for signing this petition and for making your voice heard! ------------------- Only a handful of Democratic U. S. Senators do not support marriage equality for same-sex couples. Unfortunately, Delaware's Tom Carper is one of that tiny minority. My marriage to my husband should be treated equally under the law, and the same is true for other same-sex couples throughout our state and nation. Please send Sen. Carper a clear and simple message--It's time to support marriage equality.

The Recovery School District, an agency of the Louisiana Department of Education, currently controls seven schools in Baton Rouge called the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone. The RSD is using one of these schools, Prescott Middle School with a seating capacity for 1,000 students, as an administrative building. The children of the East Baton Rouge School System need this facility back as a school to ease overcrowding among middle schools. As background, the RSD took over these schools because the schools were deemed “failing” by the Louisiana Department of Education. Parents were then given the choice of sending their children to schools run by the RSD or choosing another school run by the East Baton Rouge Parish School System. The student capacity of the seven RSD schools is 6,285. According to an RSD count conducted several months ago, there are 2,633 students attending these schools, indicating that the vast majority of parents in the seven schools chose another school run by the EBRPSS. It is incredibly inefficient for all of these school buildings to remain in the hands of the RSD when the majority of their former students have exercised choice and chosen to remain with the EBRPSS. In light of the state’s budget situation and the frozen funding for public education, the tax payers of Louisiana and East Baton Rouge Parish need to know our education officials are doing every thing they can to use resources efficiently. Even the drafters of the RSD recognize the need to keep as much money as possible in the classroom as demonstrated in the following section of the Louisiana law that created the RSD: “Except for administrative costs, monies appropriated to the Recovery School District that are attributable to the transfer of a school from a prior school system and monies allocated or transferred from the prior system to the recovery district shall be expended solely on the operation of schools transferred from the prior system to the jurisdiction of the district.” La R.S. 17:1990(3)(a). The consequences of this inefficient use of space by the RSD are particularly acute among middle school students since two of the RSD schools are middle schools. Of the 15 middle schools in EBRPSS, two have exceeded their capacity, one is at full capacity and four are within fifty students of being at capacity. This problem will only get worse as there is currently 486 more fifth graders going into middle school for the 2012-14 school year in the EBRPSS than there are eighth graders leaving. We urge the RSD to give this school building back to the EBRPSS. There are at least 2,652 empty desks at their other schools that could be turned into administrative space. The Superintendent of the RSD, Patrick Dobard, says he is committed to ensuring that “every student in Louisiana has access to a high-quality public school.” Mr. Dobard can demonstrate this commitment to parents across the EBRPSS by giving us back Prescott Middle School.