NBA players know that unions are important for protecting workers on the job. The National Basketball Players' Association has a long history of keeping players safe, and the National Basketball Referees' Association ensures fair compensation for the unsung heroes of the game. All workers deserve the same protections. James Dolan doesn't believe that. His company (Cablevision-Optimum) has done everything from illegally locking out and firing workers, to refusing to negotiate a fair contract with his workers. The NBA shouldn't reward his union busting behavior.

The aging T-111 radioactive waste tank at Hanford Nuclear Reservation (said to be the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site) in south-central Washington, is now leaking. This highly radioactive liquid waste may be making its way toward the nearby Columbia River, which supplies drinking water and agricultural irrigation. The integrity of our drinking water and food supply should be of primary concern to the citizens of our State and must be protected.

We envision a network of sustainable state and local publicly owned banks that create affordable credit, as a counter balance to the current high cost, unsustainable, high-risk, centralized private banking system.

The Federal Government will cover 100% of the cost for the first 3 years, Missouri’s medical systems will suffer the loss of $4 Billion resulting in the loss of ability to provide many of the services it provides to the citizens of the state. Missouri’s taxpayers’ dollars will go to other states to provide enhanced medical coverage for people elsewhere.

Fracking burdens local infrastructure. Roads are stressed with heavy hauling of liquids to frack sites. Air is filled with diesel exhaust. Poisonous Fracking liquids are stored in vulnerable surface pools. And of course the highly pressurized fracking liquids or slippery water, threaten 20% of the earth's fresh water. We must reject this dangerous excuse for cheap energy.

A co-worker of mine was telling me about her friend that takes care of her aunt and uncle who are both in their 70s. They both have dementia and need round-the-clock care. It became too much for the caretaker to take care of them both and so the uncle went into a nursing home. Just last week, the caretaker was told that her uncle would be losing all medicaid and would have to leave the nursing home. It took him 6 minutes and 45 seconds to get one shoe off his foot - and it was a slip on shoe. And that, my friends, made him lose his medicaid. Enough of this insanity. I think this country has really reached an all time low! It's got to stop. Please help me have our voices heard and perhaps "wake-up" the hearts of the politicians, rich and powerful people who seem to only care about themselves!

Where in Congress's proposal for a twenty-percent across-the-board pay cut for Federal employees is the same twenty-percent pay cut for members of Congress and the President? Are they not Federal employees? Aren't these the people who keep telling us that everyone must share the burden? The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy and should be stopped. But if Congress insists on cutting anyone's salary, they should cut their own paychecks first. We pay their salaries. It is up to us to demand that they accept the same percentage of reduction to their paycheck as every other Federal employee.

My wife of ten years is a disabled stroke survivor and depends on me to care for her. Homeland security has demanded she leave the USA where we own a home. I have filed a I-130 application for a green-card and need for my wife remain in the USA while she waits for the visa to be approved.

I am an affordable housing advocate who has lived in Cambridge, MA for over 30 years, and I am deeply worried about the future of my home town. Big real estate developers like Forest City are asking the Cambridge City Council to change zoning laws to allow much taller and bigger buildings all over Cambridge, so the developers can make more money. I think allowing high-rise office, lab, and market-rate apartment buildings in Kendall Square, Central Square, Alewife, and Northpoint will continue to drive rents and housing prices up. The tens of thousands of additional auto, bus and truck trips per day will intensify traffic congestion, worsen air quality, and make the streets less safe. High-rise buildings threaten to create shadows and wind tunnels, block sky views, increase noise pollution, and remove green space. The city of Cambridge does not have a current and complete Master Plan to guide equitable development.

Sign the petition to be presented at the La Raza Advocay Day in DC, on March 6, 2013. Your congressionall legislators from Delaware need to hear you support Comprehensive Immigration Reform right now.This will make Delaware families and communities better.

The Boy Scouts of America currently hold a BAN on homosexuals; they have expelled them from leadership positions and stopped deserving boys from getting their eagle awards.

I want to know what is in our food. I care about my families health and I'm sure you do. We should have the right to decide for ourselves if we want to eat Genetically Modified Organisms or NOT.