More “Victory Garden” Talk…

The garden for recovery movement keeps gaining ground…Roger Doiron has an op-ed out this weekend…

In Jerzy Kosinski’s novel and award-winning screenplay, “Being There,” the U.S. president turns to a plain-spoken gardener named Chance for wisdom at a time of economic crisis. The insight Chance offers is as simple as it is reassuring: Growth has its [...]

Letters – Wall St. Bonuses – Enough Is Enough – NYTimes.com

High compensation doesn’t attract the very best. It attracts the greediest.

via Letters – Wall St. Bonuses – Enough Is Enough – NYTimes.com.

Why is this the first time I’ve ever seen anyone say this? A more true statement has never been said. This sentence should be the banner headline of the past decade…

Why are we not [...]

Food Safety

In times of economic crisis, where do we draw the line on funding cuts? Food safety? Drug Safety? Highway Safety? If we can cut funding when the economy is good, what are we going to do when the economy is faltering?

The news on our latest food “crisis” is not good. It does seem, though, that [...]