The time has come to enact a socially responsible program to hold accountable those people we allow to use guns.

opular satirical newspaper The Onion, known for its humorous jabs at prominent figures, may have taken it a step too far with a vulgar tweet about 9-year-old Oscar nominee, Quvenzhané Wallis. Someone tweeted from the publication’s account during the Oscars: “Everyone seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c**t right?”

President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was started to allow undocumented youth brought to this country as children (DREAMers) to come out of the shadows and apply for legal protection from unwarranted deportation (as well as state drivers' licenses). Unfortunately, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is using this opportunity as a way to remind DREAMers that he thinks they are second-class Americans who should be publicly branded as such. Instead of giving approved applicants standard drivers' licenses, McCrory is instructing his state DMVs to issue special pink licenses with the phrase "NO LAWFUL STATUS" across the front. This type of discrimination hearkens to ugly separate-and-unequal days of North Carolina's past, and should have no place in the 21st century. Sign our petition to tell Governor McCrory to reverse his decision and stop discriminating against DREAMers in his state.

Do you value being treated like a patient with compassion and not just another "Dollar" sign and a Doctor that moves you thru like cattle? If so, please sign below to show your support for Doctor Gray and her professional and companionate team.

Unless we take immediate action, the major distributor of electricity and gas to the Mid-Hudson Valley will be taken over by Canadian holding company Fortis, Inc. CH Energy Group is the parent company of Central Hudson Gas and Electric, serving more than 375,000 customers. Residents will be at the mercy of a financial corporation with a disastrous environmental record. In Belize, Fortis built the Chalillo Dam, destroying precious habitat and raising costs to ratepayers. New York risks losing local jobs. In a similar case, when Iberdrola, SA, bought Rochester Gas & Electric in 2008, they cut the workforce by more than 200 people and replaced them with outside contractors. The proposed takeover does nothing to make Fortis improve the power grid, protect us from the effects of storms like Irene, Lee, and Sandy or better utilize clean energy sources. Fortis may be even able to override New York State regulations through the use of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. The so-called community benefits are minuscule compared to what the top executives at CH Energy will talk away with (reportedly $8.7 million for CH Energy Group CEO Steven Lant and $5.9 million for Executive Vice President James Laurito). "Fortis and Central Hudson shareholders are about to get away with stealing money from the ratepayers of this community," Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston said at the public hearing. We call on the New York State Public Service Commission to reject the acquisition of CH Energy Group by Fortis, Inc.

From 2002-2008, $1.3 billion of private investment was pumped into the RI economy while cities and towns were brought back to life and mills and factories were turned into vibrant living communities and commercial centers. 22,000 construction jobs and 6,000 permanent jobs were created. The time is NOW for the General Assembly to enact a new Historic Tax Credit bill. Please sign the petition and pass along to your colleagues and friends and help this petition go viral!

Education funding and funding for trio we need it so stop cutting it Why dont you all take huge cuts out of your pay and see how we have to live.

I have noticed that many accidents happen because of people too distracted while talking on their cell phones. We need to have a law where people can only use hands-free devices so that they can keep both hands on the wheel.

HB170 will cut Fulton County's revenue and vital services. Unincorporated Fulton can't have a city for their services because HB22 will prevent it. HB171 redistricts Fulton and affects voting rights and budget control. HB172 will take away appeal rights for unclassified Fulton County employees and COULD downsize employees. HR275 will split the County into 2 parts and take some of the City of Atlanta. All of these are unfair and gives us no options.

GRAND is a digital magazine that serves grandparents, grandchildren, and their families. Our goal is to protect people against gun violence.

Second-hand smoking should be considered child abuse under the law. Any person caught smoking around a child under the age of 18 should be punished.

The lack of time that a teacher has to educate a student is insufficient. We need a program of tutoring for students to have assistance in the sciences and mathematics, that some parents do not have the ability to assist their child in understanding.