| Jun 5, 2013 | Food / FarmingI never paid much attention to the food stamp debate in Congress before. But I’m on food stamps myself these days, so I’m tuning in this time around. Officially called SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps are one of those...
| | Food / FarmingI’ll bet that Mark Twain, who wrote “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” would’ve loved a current saga. I call it “The Jumping Congress Critter of Frog Jump.” The critter’s name is Representative Stephen Fincher....
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| May 29, 2013 | Economy / BusinessFifty years after poverty in America briefly became a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda, it’s time to move it off the back burner again. Even as those at the top of our society have grown fabulously richer, those in the economic middle...
| May 22, 2013 | Food / FarmingWhenever one of our cities gets a star turn as host of some super-sparkly event, such as a national political gathering or the Super Bowl, its first move is to tidy up — by having the police sweep homeless people into jail, out of town, or under some rug. But...
