Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

We are very proud to be a part of the community here. Not only do we work with local businesses and agencies, we also have a responsibility to the community where we do business.

As many as half of the participants were straight allies, and they consider themselves part of the gay community even though they themselves are not gay. One of my goals next year as V.P. of Multicultural Affairs is to make the Day of Silence even more visible.

Staff should be exploring ways of aggregating information, based on surveys and focus groups, to make the site meaningful to users,

The demand is increasing for government to be more accessible, ... But the way that demand is met is with glitzy services like e-filing [for taxes] or accessing information on a Social Security account.

But there is no infrastructure underneath it to get information. There are no business federal identification numbers that would allow you to get SEC, OSHA and EPA findings on a company.