Stop waiting for the federal government to rescue local economies. Consider how cities such as Cleveland are buying more local food, creating regional coops, and generating more local electrical power, thus keeping "the lettuce" home.
Howard Schultz of Starbucks is trying to start a national reform movement to get some big solutions to our big impasses. Here are some suggestions for translating these ideas to our state.
Other regions understand that you need world-class and localized research to support all those vineyards and winemakers. Now, there are signs we are figuring out how to "stay up with the big boys" in such wine-rich areas as California, Australia, and Europe.
The focus is on reducing disproportionate disease risk among parts of the black population. Much of the concern appears to be from whites.
We once predicted science would rule this century, but America has become so dominated by magical thinking that it makes news when a GOP candidate speaks out on behalf of science.
