Doing good business in the food economy | Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
This opinion column was submitted by syndicated columist, populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
A cadre of business school economists, high-tech speculators and corporate planners have been hyping and investing billions in a food-economy model that renders many millions family farmers, local restauranteurs, independent food processors, small grocers and food workers passe. No need for such costly and cumbersome units, argue these schemers for a revolution enabled by artificial intelligence, robotics, genetic engineering and cell-cultured foodstuffs. A few conglomerates will consolidate and automate every step from planting to plate, producing and distributing the calories necessary to sustain the masses and free all the small people tied up in food production to do something more useful.
Efforts by Texas Republicans to pass voting restrictions tests the enduring relationship between the party and big business in the state.
There’s always a danger in drawing too many inferences from a single election especially one held on a weekend in May 2021. But the outcome serves as a reminder of one of Democrats’ biggest worries in November 2022: that Republicans will turn out in huge numbers and Democrats won’t, costing the latter their control of the House.
Democrats had reason for optimism heading into the Texas contest, at least on paper. President Trump only narrowly carried the district in November after winning by 12 percentage points four years earlier. A growing Black and Latino population in Arlington, in the urban slice of the district, further heightened Democratic hopes.
Donald Trump could have final say in wildly competitive race to replace Ron Wright in Congress
There are plenty of subplots in the 23-person contest that will shape the district’s political direction.
Derrick Palmar (left) speaks to Yolanda McPherson and Marisela Aramino outside the Tarrant County Sub-courthouse in Mansfield on the last day to vote early in the May 1, 2021 municipal races and the special election for Congressional District 6. (Lawrence Jenkins/Special Contributor)(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
2:13 PM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT
The special election to fill the term of the late Ron Wright could be determined by a familiar name Donald Trump.
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California will lose one seat in Congress for the first time in state history, while Texas and Florida are among the states that will see their representation increase, according to population data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday that give the first glimpse of the coming decade’s congressional landscape.
The new apportionment figures which uses the decennial head count to allocate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives across the states are a crucial building block in mapping the country’s political geography. The details arrived months later than in a typical census as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic scrambling the standard timeline. The more granular data necessary to draw district boundaries are not expected until the fall, resulting in an uncommonly compressed and chaotic redistricting process.