FIre danger is real and it is irresponsible to permit the sale and use of fireworks in our community.

To prevent the Church from opening a worship service on the ground floor of 344 Main Street in Downtown Salinas. It is against the City code for a church to be on the ground floor of a retail building on Main Street and we want the City of Salinas to deny the application for a CUP (Conditional Use Permit) for a church on the ground floor, as it is detrimental to the other businesses in Downtown Salinas.

TIAA and CREF pour millions of dollars a year into big global palm oil traders and growers in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. These companies fund forest destruction. Today, CREF -- a set of funds owned by TIAA -- is holding its shareholder meeting. Shareholders will vote for their new board of trustees, which could decide to stop funding land grabs and forest destruction. So we need to send a message to TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson and demand that he act now!

The Trump Administration wants to sacrifice an imperiled species in order to let Big Oil drill on our public lands. We cannot allow the sage grouse to be sacrificed for Big Oil's profits. We need to demand that the Administration protects the sage grouse and other treasures of biodiversity, and not corporate profits!

I enlisted in the US Navy in 1980 and was promised "free health care for life" if I retired from the military. In the late 80s, CHAMPUS was replaced by Tricare and different pricing structures were introduced. The latest proposal introduced in the Senate per military.com would make all levels of Tricare a pay service with increased deductibles. https://www.military.com/militaryadvantage/2018/06/15/senate-tricare-plan-would-dramatically-raise-some-retiree-costs.html

My friend is disabled and has to deal with this problem.

A Canadian company, Pembina, wants to build a massive fracked gas export terminal in southern Oregon. It would include a 229-mile-long pipeline and a huge liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in Coos Bay. We need to make it clear to Governor Kate Brown and her administration that we won't allow more fracked gas infrastructure in our state. Send a message to Governor Kate Brown to STOP the Jordan Cove LNG terminal and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline.

Trump wants to use NAFTA 2.0 to lock in his rollback of essential environmental, public health, and consumer regulations. He also wants to block new safeguards related to the safety of food, chemicals, pesticides, and GMOs. Congress could stop this attack on critical protections for people and the planet. But we need your help to urge them to act!

Already, there are a total of 11 confirmed investigations into Zinke’s corruption. This shows that at a minimum, Members of Congress should be asking Zinke hard questions about his potential ethics violations, as well as his relationships to the fossil fuel industry and other giant corporations. Our public lands and the communities who depend on them are at stake. We can't let Zinke get away with this corruption.

The Trump Administration wants to sacrifice an imperiled species in order to let Big Oil drill on our public lands. We cannot allow the sage grouse to be sacrificed for Big Oil's profits. We need to demand that the Administration protects the sage grouse and other treasures of biodiversity, and not corporate profits!

Introduced by Assemblymember Rob Bonta, the Pardon and Commutation Reform Act of 2018 will create the Pardon and Commutation Panel that will take over the responsibilities of the current Board of Parole Hearings. This five-member panel, each of who will have experience with “in community-based reentry, reentry services, community-based risk assessment issues, and immigration law” will meet monthly to review submitted applications for pardons and make recommendations to the Governor. In current law, the Governor is the only one who can pardon former inmates of their past crimes, a power that can easily be tainted by individual bias. These individuals can wait years to receive a pardon, and in those years, struggle to land jobs or, in the case of immigrants, face deportation due to their past criminal records. Allowing the panel to give pardons will expunge the criminal records of former inmates who have been reformed and are ready to be productive members of society. Though the Governor still holds the power to elect the candidates on the panel, the bill would force the committee to look at each recommended individual and give a response in one year (or 90 days if they are at risk of deportation by ICE). Thus, with AB 2845, more pardon cases will be examined each year and individuals are guaranteed a review of their case within a year rather than having their case ignored. This will allow reformed former inmates to be able to obtain jobs instead of being limited by their criminal record and help to solve the crimmigration crisis. ICE has been targeting immigrants with criminal records and using their criminal past as justification for their deportation despite showing they are productive citizens of society. A portion of these immigrants were raised in America and would not be able to adjust to a new lifestyle overseas.

Regal no longer will honor a companion ticket for individuals with intellectual disabilities because they aren’t “visible”. Many of these individuals depend on companion tickets for their aids so that they are able to get out into the community and participate just like everyone else! Without companion tickets activities are even more limited and just like you and I, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities love movies, too! I am asking for Regal theaters to honor companion tickets with requiring proof that the companion is, in fact, a support person, whether that means a pay stub or a card issued from an agency/brokerage.