Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Whole Foods and True Organics

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Tom Philpott worries about Whole Food, its proposed merger, and the inroads of big "organic" farming. (I own shares in Whole Food...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Rural School Population II

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I've now corresponded with one of the authors of the report on which I posted yesterday. I'm still not totally convinced, but I...

The Things You Find in Garbage, Er "Miscellaneous"

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The Miscellaneous Title of legislation often contains some "good" stuff--earmarks, the pet ideas of various legislators and staffe...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Rural School Population

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I'm totally surprised by this report on rural areas--I've bought into the idea that rural population is aging and declining. But n...

Keith Collins on Agriculture

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Keith Collins, the chief USDA economist, testified before House Ag last week. Lots of interesting overview stuff, including a graph showin...

Bureaucratic Turf War Sprouting

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Government Executive reports on the Air Force's plans to handle cyber warfare. There's no discussion of the Army, Navy, and Marine C...

Is a Farmer a Farmer a Farmer?

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Gertrude Stein is famous for saying: "a rose is a rose is a rose". It's sometimes taken to mean that differences among things...
Friday, October 26, 2007

The Way the Media Works

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I think I've blogged before on this, but via Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy, Al Qaeda people are mad at Al jazeera for reporting on conf...

Your NRCS at Work

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Washington Post has an article on the problems of working with Mennonite dairy farmers to reduce pollution of waterways. A reminder of the...

Hillary as Manager

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Yes, I'm back home and back blogging again. The NYTimes has an article on Hillary's management style, which Ann Althouse commented ...