The creators of the influential 2008 documentary Food, Inc. never planned to make a sequel. They thought they had said it all with their horrifying view of a broken, unsustainable food system—a system run, they say, by a few multinational corporations whose monopoly squeezes out local farmers, mistreats animals, workers, and the soil itself, and …
U.S. federal officials have begun holding small businesses and nonprofits responsible for about 1 million delinquent government loans that were issued during the pandemic — and which have a face value of as much as $20 billion. This week, the Small Business Administration began referring delinquent COVID disaster loans with balances of $100,000 or less …
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RICHMOND, Va. — John Clair, police chief of a small Appalachian town in southwest Virginia, spends his days consumed by a growing problem: the frequency with which his officers are being tapped to detain, transport and wait in hospitals with people in the throes of crisis of mental health. Officers from the 21-member Clare Police …
