A headline on Newsweek’s web site grabbed my attention in early May: “Wokeness Has Come for Adoption. It’s the Children Who Will Suffer.” This is a subject I know well: My wife and I have fostered three child refugees from Zimbabwe, Guatemala, and Honduras respectively. These foster children
Invasive Plant Species Month
News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, I m Trevor Williams.
April is “Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month.” Invasive insects and plant diseases can cost the U.S. an estimated $40 billion in damages each year to trees, crops, and they threaten the economy, food supply, and the environment, especially here in the Southeast. Samantha Simon. the USDA’s Executive Director of Emergency and Domestic Programs, says April is typically the best time to spot many of the damaging, invasive species that can attack the crops in rural America, as well as garden plants and trees
By Sister Dana Van Iquity–
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Dana sez, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)! Even though I’m Irish and will surely drink green beer and Irish whiskey on that day, I still will never quite understand why we celebrate a man who drove the snakes out of Ireland.”
UNITED NATIONS’ observance of
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY was held on March 8. The theme was “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world, on the way to the Generation Equality Forum.” This was a way of celebrating the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
compromise. do you think this is a good deal for the country? is it going to go through? i do. i do think it s a good deal. look, we have a job to do and i think that as a governor you don t have the luxury of not doing your job and i think that s what americans want people in washington to do. do your job. less grandstanding. more compromise. more getting things done. no budget is perfect. as you say i reluctantly signed our budget because, unfortunately, the legislature decided to make cuts to some of our most successful job training programs. but on the whole, you want to have a budget, you want to have progress, you want compromise, you want to move forward. and so this budget, no budget is perfect. this budget is not perfect. you know, i agree with pelosi that there are increased domestic funds to domestic programs. there are important increases. and i think the american people deserve us to do our job and make progress and compromise.
he wants to get rid of the filibuster rule in the senate. both things are not happening. does he understand how this works? . no, he doesn t. listen, this is the biggest wholesale failure legislatively of donald trump s administration, no two ways about it. he proposed a budget that cut a lot of domestic programs, all of those kud cuts were rejected. democratic priorities were funded in this bill. the fact that he tried to new answer his way into science this, frankly, is a disappointment to his base. there s no other way around that. this is a complete abdication to the swamp. and donald trump signed a bill today that represents not only what we ve seen in the past, but something that republican congresses have issued in recent years, they gave him a larger domestic budget than anything president obama ever had. president trump signed it today, he caved. the white house tonight