FEATURES Is Everything You Think You Know About Local Food Wrong?
by Philip A. Loring People often make sweeping, general claims about the benefits of local/alternative food movements. These claims conflate individually held values or goals with general structual features of the food system, and ironically place an unfair burden of social reform on our local growers.
LiBerrying About Town
by Deirdre Helfferich Best Pie Throwdown ever! Music and a whole lotta pie filled the Golden Eagle Saloon on August 20.
Making It Up So You'll Give It Away
by Les Gara It's one thing to increase our tax credits for new exploration on the North Slope. It's another to mislead folks into supporting a tax giveaway.
The Missionary Position on Space
by Neal Matson Once upon a time, America "ruled" space. Now it seems that today's moral code comes from the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, and space exploration is no longer financed.
Throwing Stones at Schools
by Jennifer Jordan The only thing that I questioned when I first heard Greg Mortenson's story and read Three Cups of Tea was his ability to retun, again and again, to a war zone.
Witness to Oslo, July 21-23, 2011
by Richard Seifert My wife and I were in the beautiful city of Oslo when the bombings and killings of liberal youth were perpetrated by a right-wing murderer bent on assassinating Norway's future political leadership.
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