Spaghetti Sauce Is Under Threat as Water Crisis Slams Tomatoes Kim Chipman — August 13, 2022 (Bloomberg) — Tomatoes are getting squeezed. California leads the world in production of processing tomatoes — the variety that gets canned and used in commercial kitchens to make some of the most popular foods. The problem is the worst … Continue reading Good Grief! Here Comes The Tomato Crisis!
[NOTE: When I bought a house in 2012, the market here was way down and I got a good price. Now it’s up, and I get a steady stream of phone calls, text messages and mailers urging me to sell it, for much more. The inquiries are often “personalized,” signed Ted or Sue, to make … Continue reading Coming to (& For) a Job & Industry & House & Neighborhood Near YOU (Or already there): Private Equity Firms
CNN Rush Transcript [text may not be in its final corrected form] from August 12 on the content and the significance of the retrieved TOP SECRET documents (emphasis added): Erin Burnett (CNN-OutFront): In all, 11 sets of classified documents, four of them, according to this receipt, marked top secret. Four of them marked top secret, … Continue reading CNN’s Top Experts Unpack the Secrets in Trump Boxes: “Stunning,””Egregious” & “Flagrant”
Philadelphia Inquirer [John] Fetterman keeps attacking [Mehmet] Oz for being from New Jersey. That’s resonating in parochial PA’s U. S. Senate race Oz was likely always going to face challenges appealing to everyday Pennsylvanians. But something about the Keystone state’s political DNA seems to be making it even harder. * by Julia Terruso Updated Aug 14, … Continue reading Running for Senate in the Strange Galaxy Called Pennsylvania
Putin is banking on a failure of political will in the west before Russia runs out of firepower Timothy Garton Ash Democratic leaders need to prepare their citizens for a long struggle over Ukraine – and a hard winter The Guardian — Published: 05 August 2022 The Russo-Ukrainian war is coming down to a … Continue reading Historians Take a Turn, Debating Putin’s “General Winter” vs. Ukraine’s Invincible Stories