The Wall Street Journal broke the story that Bank of America is getting ready to charge customers up to $25 a month for their checking account. But don’t worry – bank executives’ and their friends in the 1% will be exempt by keeping a large enough bank balance. American taxpayers gave Bank of America a $45 billion loan when it struggling 3 years ago, and this is how we get repaid? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/bank-of-america-fee_n_1312347.html?ref=business&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

Montana's chief federal judge Richard Cebull admitted on Wednesday (2/29/12) that he forwarded the following email comparing African-Americans to dogs and implying that President Barack Obama's mother had sex with animals. : "Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine." A joke then follows: "A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?' His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'" Cebull forwarded the offensive email from his official court account to six "old buddies," who then forwarded to others, according to the the Great Falls Tribune.

This petition is about building support for amending the Idaho Human Rights Act to include LGBT people. People should sign it because currently LGBT people can be denied housing and employment and be otherwise discriminated against and that's not right.

Florida State University has had over 100 million dollars cut in the past four years from its recurring budget. Now, the Florida Legislature plans to cut at least another $250 million from higher education, and FSU faces at least a $10 million dollar cut or being stripped of reserve funds. Students are paying more for less. Support this petition if you don't want to see continued tuition increases or decreased academic services.

As some of you are aware, Visual Risk Technology and Dr. Lepofsky, MMTA’s hired consultant, has crafted a response to Battelle's response to MassDOT on issues raised in our analysis. After presenting Dr. Lepofsky's materials to MassDOT they have required Battelle to respond to points made in his report. Both of these reports are posted on our website for your review. In addition, we are hearing reports that MassDOT is poised to make a ruling this month. As some of you are aware, we are trying to come up with our own risk analysis that may refute the risk established in the Battelle report. We are asking now for all of our members to take action and sign on to this letter to the Governors office to ensure MassDOT creates a cogent transportation routing plan for Massachusetts.

Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered. It offended her teachers so much that, after harassment from teachers and school administrators at School #3, Miss Williams was forced to leave the school. http://blacklikemoi.com/2012/02/black-history/13-yr-old-allegedly-persecuted-by-teachers-for-radical-essay-on-frederick-douglass/

Ask Apple to consider helping to protect and preserve the endangered species they have been naming their operating system versions after. Return something to the name giver used to advertise a software product.

We believe the vast majority of Americans are moderates. We may call ourselves Republicans,Democrats, Independents,but we are the vast middle seeking common ground and compromise to make our government work for all of the people.Although representing the majority of American voters,we are the overlooked group whose views and beliefs have been silenced by the extremes at both ends of the scale.

Publication of a landmark government study probing whether diesel engine exhaust causes lung cancer in miners — already 20 years in the making — has been delayed by industry and congressional insistence on seeing study data and documents before the public does. Particles emitted in diesel exhaust are ultrafine — "smaller than a virus." These diesel particles, coated with toxic chemicals and metals, can penetrate cells and cause cancer and other diseases. See URL for more information: http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/02/06/8088/landmark-diesel-exhaust-study-stalled-amid-industry-and-congressional-objections

A few power hungry people in the Brookhaven-Ashford community in Dekalb County want another layer of governement, they are trying to create the City of Brookhaven. This new city will squeeze out more taxes from residents in the new city (and all of Dekalb County), extract more fees from business owners, deny people of color their constitutional and statutory rights and provide substandard and expensive municipal services. We do not need another expensive and unnecessary layer of government. We all calling on the Senators on the State and Local Government Operations Committee in the Georgia Senate to Vote no on HB 636.

SB 6442 eliminates K-12 school employees’ current health care system and forces everyone into a costly new plan run by the state health care bureaucracy. SB 6442 will cost Washington taxpayers $45 million in new costs! SB 6442 will increase school employee insurance costs and reduce employee health care benefits! SB 6442 hurts everyone, including education support professionals. SB 6442 eliminates employer health care coverage for K-12 employees who work less than half time!

SB 6442 eliminates K-12 school employees’ current health care system and forces everyone into a costly new plan run by the state health care bureaucracy. SB 6442 will cost Washington taxpayers $45 million in new costs! SB 6442 will increase school employee insurance costs and reduce employee health care benefits! SB 6442 hurts everyone, including education support professionals. SB 6442 eliminates employer health care coverage for K-12 employees who work less than half time!