House panel puts the screws to any EPA attempts to regulate ‘farm dust’
Backsliding into Jim Crow in Alabama
Feds tell Alabama not to screw over kids
NC tobacco workers face below-minimum wages and abusive working and living conditions
Open thread for night owls: Resource wars
At TomDispatch.com, Michael T. Klare writes, The Year of Living Dangerously:
Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society, producing chaos and political unrest. Start with...
Al Gore Mea Culpa: Support for Corn-Based Ethanol Was a MistakeFiled under: Democrats, Environment, Gaffes, Energy, Climate Change, EconomyGore now says it's better to produce ethanol using non-food sources, but back in the day he was thinking about presidential politics and farmers in Tennessee and Iowa. Per...
Colbert testifies on immigration reformStephen Colbert delivers his prepared remarks earlier today in a House hearing on immigration reform, reminding the assembled Congressmen that his grandpa didn't sail across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to live in a country that would be overrun by immigrants:
Much of Colbert's commentary... Shirley Sherrod Will Sue Blogger Andrew Breitbart Over Edited VideoFiled under: Barack Obama, Gaffes, Media, Viral Video, Race Issues, Obama Administration, Video, Shirley SherrodShirley Sherrod says she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart over his posting of an edited video of racial comments that cost Sherrod her job ...
AR-Sen: Big Ag over school lunches for kidsLast week, Blanche Lincoln painted herself as a hero for poor kids, introducing a "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" that would increase funding for school lunches. Of course, given that it's Lincoln we're talking about, turns out the proposal isn't all warm and fuzzies.
Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Food & Climate
Tom Vilsack’s Farm-Country Tour: A Different Kind of Town HallFiled under: Economy, Energy, Obama Administration Health care town-hall meetings are certainly stealing the spotlight these days -- but they're not the only game in town. Mostly unnoticed, a quieter series of town halls is taking place on a different crisis: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has embarked on a...‘A Wake-Up Call’ for Rural AmericaFiled under: Environment, Economy, Health Care, Obama Administration, Culture Are America's farms facing a crisis?Addressing the USDA's annual Outlook Forum -- which looks at the year ahead in agriculture -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday, "I want to express concern about the...
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