The Philadelphia City Council just passed a law that guarantees all Philadelphians paid sick days off from work. This important law will make sure that no one has to come into work while they're sick or have a sick child at home. Now it's up to Mayor Michael Nutter to sign this bill into law. Send him a message now and urge him to sign the Earned Sick Days legislation into law now.

The state legislature should not subvert a local government's passage of a regulation, in this case, the banning of reusable tote bags in Austin.

It's unconscionable that bankers, responsible for the largest financial crisis in recent history, continue holding their jobs, earning millions, with no visible consequences for their actions, while hard-working people are left homeless. Homeowners are being held accountable for their actions, bankers should be too.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicated that it will deny a request to build a road through remote wilderness areas of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is internationally recognized for its important wetlands and wildlife habitat, and as congressionally designated Wilderness. This decision now goes to the Secretary of the Interior to be finalized -- Tell Secretary Salazar that you stand behind the Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision , and urge him to finalize and adopt the agency’s decision to deny this proposed road.

Oregonians demand an outside unbiased peer review (NOT ODFW’s “review”) of Oregon’s cougar management plan and an accurate cougar population count.  We need to be assured that our vote for Measure 18 is being honored!  We need to take a step in a better direction and start protecting these great cats!   Oregon’s Cougar Management plan isn't working.  It never has.  It is a failed plan with failed policies.

To make our members of Congress aware of an "invisible" segment of America.

US citizen & NC resident

There are more than 58,000 homeless seniors and another nine million seniors who can't afford to pay their bills already. Chained CPI will add to those numbers of vulnerable seniors and disabled people who are already struggling to make ends meet. The current CPI already does NOT keep up with inflation, and every year more seniors fall into the category of vulnerable, food insecure, homeless, and unable to pay for basic living expenses. NO CHAINED CPI and INCREASE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS!

I am exhausted from staying up late nights unable to sleep wondering which possible ailment awaits my beautiful and precious 9 yr old daughter, myself and the countless other Nevada residents whose only fault is that we are being subjected to water that is fluoridated. Please end this senseless, irresponsible decision and make a step in the RIGHT direction by ending fluoridation of Nevada's water supply immediately!

Although I am not sure about laws regarding the release of infants from the hospital after childbirth I know that the lack of medical screenings for heart complications, like enlarged hearts, are few and far between and as a result my family has been profoundly affected. Two weeks ago my 6 week old niece, Sophia, passed away "unexpectedly" because she had an enlarged heart that went undetected during pregnancy and throughout follow-up medical exams. Her father, my brother, alerted the prenatal providers and hospital staff that he was born with heart problems, more specifically a hole in his heart. My brother survived the heart abnormality in the 80s but my niece Sophia wasn't as lucky. Even though there was a history of heart complications in my family the hospital staff did not run the necessary tests to monitor or even look at Sophia's heart. Sophia was not properly monitored while in the womb nor properly evaluated before leaving the hospital. Because of this my family and I will live the rest of our lives with a hole in our hearts because we won't have Sophia, our little Angel. Sophia deserved better. What enrages me the most about this is that when my sister gave birth to her daughter two years ago her doctors provided continuous assistance, support, and screenings during her pregnancy and after the baby was born because of our family history. There shouldn't be different levels of care for pregnant mothers and newborns. It's time for the state of California to hold hospitals accountable for "unexplained" infant deaths and to start to require hospitals to do the necessary tests to screen infants for heart problems early on. Don't allow any more parents to lose their children because of undetected heart problems like Sophia's. A heart problem didn't take our Angel, lack of medical tests and screenings may have. The state of California has to protect the rights of every citizen no matter how young they may be. Thousands of infant deaths occur each year, not to mention the amount of sudden deaths among youth and adults with similar heart conditions. It is time for hospitals to be held accountable for their screening practices. Tell California legislators to do something about "unexpected" child deaths now.

I believe marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes.I have neuropathy and take many medications.I rather stop taking the medications because they don't work .I have read many articles which show Marijuana works to help the pain from neuropathy.

You, your children, and your Earth are currently being directly effected in several disturbingly pervasive and unconscionable ways. The most prominent and terrifying of these is at a cellular level. Your cells themselves are being genetically altered to produce Monsanto mutations. The introduction of any amount of GE foods such as those which are Roundup ready or BT toxic can trigger your own cells to begin producing these horrific abominations. Even organic foods can contain these compounds via drift, feed, fodder, etc. No one is safe. This is 'Geneticide'. Please help end this insanity.