Ag Briefs: WI still top cheese producer
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WI still top cheese producer
Wisconsin still leads the pack in cheese production according to the most recent Wisconsin Dairy Products Production report from the USDA that tracks cheese production for Wisconsin and other select states between Jan. 2020 and Jan. 2021.
During this time period, Wisconsin s production of cheddar was up 4%, ranking the state in the top position. Production of mozzarella, however, was down 4.3% - with the decline likely attributed to the slow down of food service purchases during the pandemic.
Production of Italian cheeses also fell 3.5 % in the past year. Overall, Wisconsin s total cheese production was up 0.3%.
The Montpelier Bridge
Tom Azarian, foreground, pictured in an unnamed newspaper clipping dated 1963–64. Courtesy image.
There is so much more to tell what music and life was like from the 1930s through 1940s before TV and all. I left out many French Canadian fiddlers small town square dances, etc. As poor as everyone was during the Depression, we had one bright spot. That was radio. It seems every family had a radio. We didn’t have cars or phones, we had little food, but radio helped the country through the hardest times.
There have been so many musicians in Vermont it’s hard to list them all. Old time fiddlers, retired farmers, country people of that radio generation now are gone. Thankfully young people are keeping traditional music from going extinct.
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COVID liability advances in Missouri Senate, expands to shield religious orgs
After nearly 15 hours of debate and negotiations behind the scenes, a bill was given initial approval in the Senate’s first filibuster of the session
By Tessa Weinberg
The Missouri Independent
Churches would be immune from most lawsuits alleging COVID was contracted on their premises after an exemption was carved out for religious organizations during the Senate’s first filibuster of the session Tuesday over liability protections for businesses and healthcare providers.
After nearly 15 hours of debate and negotiations behind the scenes, legislation sponsored by Sen. Tony Lueketmeyer, a Republican from Parkville, was given initial approval shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday.
To the editor:
Doug Beck was elected to the Missouri Senate. His loyalty is to his Democrat Party’s bad medical insurance ideas.
If Doug Beck is allowed to continue representing “the people” as a Democrat, he will vote for policies toward banning all private medical, union plans and medicare insurance in America.
Democrats are spewing disinformation about America’s medical insurance. Your medical insurance plans, private or union, and all senior Medicare coverage will be in danger of elimination. Why?
1) Obamacare only insures 20 million people. Changing it to a better insurance plan only affects 20 million people. That’s what Republicans want to do.
A Democratic state representative from Missouri accused Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani of lying to overturn the presidential election in a hearing held by a state committee Dec. 14. The former New York City mayor responded by calling the lawmaker dangerous to democracy.
The exchange came during a House Special Committee on Government Oversight hearing on a resolution asking Congress to reject the electoral votes of six states won by President-elect Joe Biden if claims of fraud are not investigated.
Most of South County’s GOP delegation signed the letter from 66 lawmakers asking for an investigation: Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, who represents the 94th District; Rep. David Gregory, R-Sunset Hills, the 96th; and Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, the 97th.