President obama is now in east lancing, michigan, in just a few minutes hes expected to sign the new farm bill into law. Mike viqueira is in washington with more on the bill and why the president went all the way to michigan to sign it, mike . Well, there were a couple of reasons for that. Some just plain old poll licks. The chair woman hails from michigan. Michigan State University is where the president is going to be appearing. Its a variety verse agricultural community, many people dont know that. 956 billion lets just call it an even trillion, del over ten years. And it has been a long time coming. The country has been without a farm bill since last september when the last farm bill expired. But the fight had lasted much longer than that. Chief among the concerns, the reformers in the tea party felt as though too much money was being spent on food stamps. They had an enormous cut, some 10 of food stamp expenditures, that did not come anywhere close in the final product. About 1 ,
Colorado Springs private high school reduces food waste by giving leftovers to food bank. The program helps save between 20 and 50 pounds of food from going to waste every week.
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A recent string of donations from the Shoshone VFW Post 1675, has the local Silver Valley food banks extending their gratitude.
In April, Post Commander Chris Marker took $500 to each of the four food banks in Shoshone County.