The Real Health Care Reform

Something I keep pushing in the healthcare reform debate…Agriculture is key to real reform. Recently a team of designers from M.I.T. and Columbia was asked by the foundation of the

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The Status Quo Leads To What?

I keep reading how this reform is dead. We have Texas Republicans in Congress claiming if the Dems pass a plan they will be back in power and repeal it.

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Muses About the State of Agriculture

Nicholas Kristof, writing in his column, had what I think is probably the best definition I have ever seen of the state of our agriculture… I think I figured out

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The Hijacking of Health Insurance Reform

…the public — struggling with the worst economic downturn since the 1930s — is looking on with great anxiety and confusion. If the drug companies and the insurance industry are

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Reforming an Ex-President’s Reputation?

Cheney’s disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. If

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“Great Stories Come Out Of Great Farming”

I have been incredibly blessed to be able to combine this love of calloused hands with dramatic and verbal skills. And that is why I promote direct marketing. Too often

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Our Friends Across The Atlantic Can Not Figure Us Out…

LONDON — In America, the health care debate is about to come to a boil. President Barack Obama has put pressure on both houses of Congress to pass versions of

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A Treasonous Vote of NO!

If only there was a court to try the cases in… So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives

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