Our Alaskan King Salmon spawing return has been on a steady decline for the last 25 years. STATEWIDE our State of Alaska Dept of Fishery Managers allowed this to happen. They have managed for this decline by managing for sockeye salmon returns and ignoring the by-catch of king salmon. To stop the failure, Alaska needs NEW managers on the Dept of Fish!

Sheriff John Lopey of Siskiyou Co., Ca and several other N. CA sheriffs have politicized their roles by interfering with environmental issues they disagree with, ignoring laws they disapprove of and inciting tea party interests that further their own narrow political views.

I am a teacher. Nuff said!!!

Mitt Romney must show his returns or drop out

By its effect, the clear intent of the War on Drugs has been the suppression of Black voter rights - there are now ~20 million Black Americans that have been incarcerated & stripped of their Civil Rights generally for possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana. The application of marijuana laws has been grossly discriminatory as comparable usage rates in the white population have produced quite low incarceration rates.

These poor pigs are raised, crammed in, that's right crammed in gestation crates. They cannot move, turn around, must stand every minute of every day in these crates 24/7 and people like Stephen King and Dave Warner director of communications at NPPC think there's nothing wrong with that. After all, they're just pigs. Let's get this straight. There's nothing wrong with animal abuse and cruelty?

In the Clear Spending Project, the Sunlight Foundation discovered $1.3 trillion dollars of inaccurately reported federal government spending on the open data website (data.gov). This could be remedied with application of the Digital Accuracy and Transparency Act (DATA), which would standardize reporting by all government contractors and agencies by ensuring complete disclosure of each expenditure, tying it to a specific program and reporting it in a standard data format. DATA passed UNANIMOUSLY by voice vote in the House but is currently stalled in the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee of the Senate.

Just now, 95 percent of elections are won by the person who has the largest amount of money. The top 1% are now donating bucket loads of money to our politicians effectively silencing the 99%. Therefore campaign donations of money has become an ineffective tool for the 99% to affect policy decisions. Everyone agrees that the only way to have a fair election is by passing a robust constitutional amendment that states that corporations are not people and money is not speech. But some organizations like MoveOn, Common Cause and unions are reluctant to add all legal entities to this clause. Since Citizens United was a not-for-profit organization, it is crucial that we add all man made entities to this amendment. The opposition is united. It is time we all joined hands to make this happen. Please do not hang onto a myth that we will be able to influence politicians and policies by donating money to politicians. We have to realize that we cannot compete for money with the 1%. If you do have excess money, It is better to use that money to help the poor and give our kids scholarships and help each other. Let us stop wasting our hard earned money on politicians. So let's get together and get the movetoamend.org amendment stating corporations of all types are not persons. And speech is not money now before the elections. Do not be afraid. We have people power behind us. So once money becomes an ineffective tool, the 99% will once again have a voice in promoting good policies. It is time to unite.

thr gop has this war to keep the working poor and the poor down and keep them down.we must stop them

Eliminating all smoking in Alabama state bars and restaurants.

Quite simply $100,000,000 in an IRA is an extremely large accrual. The WSJ reported that contributions were made at a value set by Bain and of course Mitt is Bain. Fraudulent valuations skirt the limits set by congress. It is normal for the IRS and Massachusetts Department of Revenue to audit the taxes of those with suspiciously large entries in their filings. It is time for an audit.

Climate change is here. What are we going to do about it?