Egg prices are being driven up again not so much by gouging or mergers but by the loss of tens of millions of egg-laying chickens to the avian flu.
The complexity and fragility of our supply chains scares me. Also, that we seem to have learned very little from the Covid pandemic.
More on the avian theme, I think Biden has turned into too much of a lame duck.
I volunteer with a food bank in rural Utah where there is a drive-by pick up every month. While our town population is under 300, the number of cars driving through is at least that or maybe more, and some cars pick up for two or three families. We don't turn anyone away, because it assumed that everyone qualifies, even if they live over the border in Arizona or New Mexico. Often, they live on the Navajo reservation, which is truly a food desert. People are hungry, and this merger is not going to help.
Correct Chris. But if we think any church leader who takes our tax money will use it for "secular" education in their church.... we're nuts. Shame on us. I say not one dime for ANY church. Churches pay no property taxes but get all of the benefits provided by those taxes. Police, fire, EMT, water, sewer, parks and good local governments. Churches have been chipping away at this for decades. In the 1950's they were trying things like "let our kids ride the public school busses since they are goi…
YUP, that all sounds familiar. I can tell you stories about the time up there, some good ones. I oiled on a squirt boom, tire crane and we set vertical support members (VSM's) onto the upright pilings that came out of the ground.
They were in the permafrost. It was quite something the way they figured that one out. It was a major accomplishment for sure. I was chased by a bear once and once by a caribou in rut. The pipeliners from Oklahoma were feeding the bears and this one wanted food. There w…
I wish there were some way to communicate this post to every household in America. But not only do the wealthiest of the wealthy control 70% of the wealth, they also control almost all mainstream media. In addition to anti-monopoly we,as a nation, need to assure there are at the very least three mainstream media corporations that are contracted and committed to fact check and report HONESTLY the news of the day. Total neutrality instead of this phony both sideism.
“America then understood that stable prices and good wages depended on government taming corporate greed for the common good. This wasn’t socialism or communism. It was democratic, progressive capitalism. It was a means of saving both capitalism and democracy.”
An understanding of this goes back at least as far as ancient Greece and that weaver of fables, Aesop, who left us with the tale of goose who laid golden eggs, and its owner, for whom the bird’s pace of laying them was not sufficiently qu…