My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools. Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture thinks there’s entirely too much brotherly love going on in Philadelphia and says it will shut down a program that for the last 17 years has been offering free lunches to all school children regardless of income. The USDA says it isn’t fair for Philadelphia to be the only city in the […]
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I got laid off this week. Well, it’s just the last two weeks of my food appreciation classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia that I’ll be missing. Apparently they’re tightening belts even in places where tuition is around the same as my mortgage payment, and with only two weeks […]
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