The legalization of marijuana would bring in a lot of tax revenue for missouri, it has a lot of medical uses, it also can be used to develope bio-fuels, and fabrication of many materials we use every day. The postive effects of marijuana greatly outweighs the bad. Marijuana should be legal because it can help people immensely through medical uses and is drastically less harmful than tobacco and alcohol with recreational use.

Shell Oil announced that it will not resume its oil drilling efforts in the Arctic. While this is not a promise to drop its goal of putting oil platforms in the wild, remote Arctic, it is an admission by Shell that their plans are fraught with problems.

On the denial of employing more than 60,000 massage therapist.

I got fired just for speaking my mind about my working conditions. That's not just wrong, it's illegal. I've worked as a Cablevision/Optimum Technician for more than 6 years. A year ago, my coworkers and I voted to form a union, so we could have a voice on the job. But a year has come and gone, and Cablevision/Optimum management hasn't negotiated in good faith for a contract. Along with my co-workers, I asked to talk to my managers. They say they have an "open door" policy, but when we wanted to talk, they said they were too busy. Then they fired 22 of us, telling us we were "permanently replaced". They locked us out and fired us for speaking out about working conditions. That's illegal and just plain wrong. I'm without my paycheck just as my rent is going up. I have two children, Alexis and Rayshawn, one of whom has had serious medical care needs which has left us with a stack of bills. Meanwhile, Cablevision's CEO, James Dolan, made $11.5 million last year alone. Stand with me by signing my petition to urge Cablevision/Optimum to reinstate me and all of my coworkers.

We want to remind you of your oath to uphold your oath of office, which includes upholding the separation of religious beliefs from civil laws. This bill is not a test of your religious fidelity, or an assault on you religious beliefs, or on “the sanctity of marriage,” (private sentiments which should have no place ever in your decisions on the floor of the legislature), but as so cogently explained by Rep. Chris Blazejewski, this is a matter of civil rights, bringing civil justice to all families. Thank you.

According to Colorado Department of Agriculture statistics for fiscal year 2011, Colorado animal shelters euthanized 31,751 animals. Many of these animals were adoptable and needlessly died. On June 11, 2013, animal shelters across the U.S. are taking a pledge to not kill any savable animals for Just One Day. We are asking for Official Colorado support for Just One Day, encouraging all of Colorado’s shelters to market their animals to the public, aggressively partner with rescue groups, host special adoption events that have discounted and affordable rates, stay open for extended hours, and ask their communities to help them empty the shelter in the best way possible, where no animals die.

30 million uninsured patients are expected to enter the healthcare system through 2019 as a result of insurance mandates required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. At the same time, a shortage of primary care physicians is expected to surpass 52,000 by 2025, according to a recent study published in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. SB471 expands public access to conservative, cost-effective, primary care physicians in underserved and rural areas by expanding the scope of chiropractic medicine. We’re calling on Gov. Martinez, members of the New Mexico State Legislature, and members of the Senate Public Affairs Committee to stand-up for public safety and VOTE YES on SB471.

The state Senate has introduced a bill (SB 76), that instructs that Governor to negotiate with the federal government to open up our coast to oil and gas drilling. Allowing drilling would threaten our fragile coastal ecosystem, and put our tourist based coastal economy at risk. Imagine if a BP-like spill happened along the Outer Banks! This bill also allows the state to start issuing fracking permits in August 2015, without another vote to lift the moratorium. Please join together to help tell our leadership to stop their rush to drill.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi has circulated a memo to his colleagues saying now’s the time to rig the Electoral College in Pennsylvania to take back the presidency in 2016. Unless we stop them, an Electoral College rigging bill could pass in Pennsylvania in less than a week!

S.B.76 strongly encourages the Governor to pursue offshore drilling compacts with Virginia and South Carolina, authorizes the Mining and Energy Commission and DENR to begin issuing permits for fracking on March 1, 2015 BEFORE regulations have been approved, eliminates the registration requirement for landmen; removes the State's Geologist from the MEC; and assorted other undesirables. Please sign this petition and send it to your contacts. North Carolina deserves better!

I was dismayed to learn that the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is still tormenting cats in cruel and useless "sound localization" experiments. Cats used in these experiments have steel coils implanted in their eyes, holes drilled into their skulls, and electrodes implanted in their brains. Sometimes, they even have their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened by having a toxic chemical applied to their inner ear. They are then deprived of food for several days in order to coerce them to look in the direction of sounds during experimental sessions in which their heads are immobilized by a bolt screwed to their skulls.

Montgomery Bell Park in Dickson, Tennessee will be hosting a major annual conference of white supremacists for the second year in a row from April 5-7 2013. This is the 11th conference of the white supremacist group American Renaissance (AmRen). AmRen is designated a hate group by a number of human rights organizations. AmRen is listed as a terrorist organization by several states including Virginia. The presence of a terror group in Montgomery Bell Park is unacceptable and presents a clear and present danger to public health and safety. What is AmRen? Amren is a newsletter that publishes pseudo-scientific research which argues that people of color are intellectually and morally inferior to white people. The organization is led by a white supremacist named Jared Taylor. Previous attendees at the conference include Ku Klux Klan members (including former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke), neo-Nazis (such as Don Black who runs the neo-Nazi website “stormfront“), holocaust deniers, anti-immigration thugs, and other racist and fascist groups and people who promote racial hatred. Who is Supposed to be at the Conference This Year? Some speakers at this conference include: John Derbyshire an ex-writer for the National Review who was recently fired for a racist rant he published advising white parents to teach their children to “avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally”, “before voting for a black politician scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white”, “do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress”, etc. He currently writes for a white supremacist and anti-immigration website called vdare where he wrote recently that, “White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements history has come up with.” Sam Dickson an anti-Semite who is a former lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan and holocaust denier. He is a white nationalist who attacks affirmative action, interracial marriage, gays and lesbians, and immigration. Fabrice Robert an Islamophobic anti-immigration activist who founded a fascist organization in France called Bloc Identitaire. Jared Taylor who believes that black people are genetically predisposed to having lower IQs than whites and has stated in an article published on his website that, “Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, western civilization, any kind of civilization, disappears.” What Can We Do? After signing the petition, please contact Dickson County mayor Bob Rial by calling 615-789-7000 and entering 5 to be connected to the office of the mayor. You can also call the park and voice your concerns at 615-797-9051. Here is an example of what you could say: "Hello my name is _____. I am concerned about the American Renaissance (AmRen) white supremacist conference that Montgomery Bell Park is planning to host from April 5th through the 7th. I see the decision to host this conference as an irresponsible promotion of racist ideology and if you do not cancel the conference I will no longer be able to patronize the Montgomery Bell Park Inn and will be advising my family and friends to do the same. American Renaissance is a terrorist organization and its presence in the park is a clear and present danger to public health and safety. This is unacceptable and I urge you to take immediate action on this issue."