Three of my grandchildren attend Knox County Schools. Recently, Becky Massey and Bill Dunn are trying to legislate requiring school board elections to be partisan. Life is too short to go through this kind of complication.

Studies have repeatedly shown that alcohol is far more dangerous than cannabis, and yet it is legal to use for recreation. Meanwhile, people who could benefit from its use such as cancer patients, epileptics, and people who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder face prosecution for its possession. There is great revenue to be obtained for the state from regulation and taxation of cannabis, as well as allowing our law enforcement to focus on violent crime and undercutting the profits of criminal activities. History has taught us that the folly of prohibition only acted as a boon for organized crime.

I am ashamed of the U.S. legislators not to pass a law that legally makes the owner of a gun responsible for its use. Americans are known the world over as an agressive society.

Doing my part to save the state I live in from the snowballing backslide catalyzed by McCrory's illogical and damaging policies by asking others to take action NOW before its too late.

A majority of your shoppers are women and your support of a Radio Show that has repeatedly insulted women based on their support of policies is by de facto communication to us that you agree with his outrageous lies and insults. We want to support your Employee Run stores. S

Recharge stations for Plug-in vehicles are needed throughout Massachusetts. Legislation should be passed that requires all parking lots containing 25 sites or more should have charging stations.

The pharmaseutical driven medical system in the US undermines all measures to reform how we spend our dollars for health care and furthermore creates an atmosphere of fear and a need to medicate ourselves.

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) are safe and can provide energy and water security for the entire world for thousands of years. LFTRs cannot melt down (they’re molten by design), they do not need backup power (as did Fukushima), they produce less than 1% of the waste of current reactors, they use abundant thorium instead of uranium for fuel, they can be used to generate hydrogen (as a basis for synthetic fuels to replace gasoline and diesel), they can be mass produced, they cannot be used to generate weapons material, and they can be used to replace oil as the energy source for the ever-growing desalination needs of the world. For background information of LFTRs, copy and paste this link into your browser's address bar: http://stopglobalwarmingpetition.blogspot.com/

At the beginning of the year, BCBS stopped covering my aunt's compounded medications, which she has been effectively and safely using for years, under the close supervision of her physician. Their solution is to force her to use a stronger medication from a "regular" pharmacy, which is more expensive for both her and BCBS and contains chemicals that could be very detrimental to her health. Even after she offered to pay entirely out-of-pocket, she was told that wasn't an option and that she must use the medication BCBS covers, or none at all. Why is an insurance company given more authority than a physician on what medications are best for patients? Only 2% of the population uses compounded medications, so BCBS is betting that even if all of them speak out, there still won't be enough momentum to push a change. Speak out against BCBS playing with people's health!

It's simple: President Obama can put an end to civilian assault weapon sales in America by ordering all Federal agencies to stop purchasing guns from companies (and their affiliates and subsidiaries) who manufacture or sell civilian assault weapons. Faced with the prospect of losing all their Defense Department and Federal law enforcement sales, these manufacturers and arms dealers will have no choice but to halt civilian assault weapons manufacture. They will then likely direct the NRA to support an assault weapons ban, so that they can compete in the civilian weapons market.

Airborne emissions permitted from some facilities in California subject to the "Toxic Hot Spots" Act (former AB-2588) have been found to deposit and accumulate on surfaces such as roofs, streets and sidewalks as well as into soils where the public is exposed. Some of the deposition/accumulation has been to hazardous waste levels. The Department of Toxic Substances Control and the local air quality management districts must be required to jointly address this problem.

Drunks kill more people than guns. I was almost run over ( I was on foot) by a drunk truck driver.