Warmer weather is generally better for producing herbs in the home garden. What is an herb? Herbs are plants that are used as flavoring agents. Mild or savory herbs impart a delicate flavor to foods, while stronger or pungent herbs add zest. Some additional herbs are used for medicinal, aromatic, or ornamental purposes.
I think middle class Americans need to be made aware of a plan put forward by Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott recently. The plan would raise taxes on 75 million American families, 95% of which make less than $100,000/year. 82% of small business owners who make less than $50,000/year would also see their taxes raised, but there would be nothing to hold corporations accountable, even as they are recording record profits. And when President Biden advises raising taxes on the ultra wealthy, there is an outcry from Republicans who admonish Democrats for being big spenders. I fail to understand the appeal to cutting taxes on the wealthy while raising them on the less fortunate. If it is has to do with trickle down economics, that has proven a failed policy repeatedly since Ronald Reagan first launched the idea 40 years ago.
It is good at times to conduct a reality check on what this country supposedly stands for, and what it actually does. The preamble to the US Constitution, in 1787, reads as follows: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
From time to time, we take a moment to recognize important businesses, groups and organizations in our community. Now is such a time as Apple-A-Day Preschool, the first to be licensed inside a retirement community in Kansas, turns 30.
I’m writing to recognize a very special place in the Newton community. Apple-A-Day, the preschool located inside Newton Presbyterian Manor, turns 30 this year. I’m a parent of two former Apple-A-Day students and one current student and can attest to the school’s lasting mark in the lives of young people.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~~George Santayana During the 1930’s, the Control-Leftists in Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Facist Italy, and the Communists in the USSR seized control of vast territories and proceeded to exterminate roughly 100,000,000 people that opposed their evil or didn’t fit into their vision of what people should look like or do. In doing so, they plunged the entire world into War.
Warning: this is about politics and the upcoming election. Wait, don’t stop reading because what I have to say is especially important and will affect your farm and ranch for a long time to come. I know we are all tired of the constant fighting and mudslinging and what happens in D.C. and Topeka seem to be millions of miles away. I am here to tell you what happens in both cities hits close to home.
While a few serious issues continue to be debated in committee and the courts, basically the 2022 legislative session is a wrap. And once again, Medicaid expansion didn’t pass.
During a 2014 symposium marking the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, a statement from one of the plaintiffs offered what today feels like prescient insight. Many of the Virginia plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit, feared integration and would have preferred separate and actually equal.
Dear Doctors: I was surprised when I had to have a TB test for a new job and was shocked that it came back positive. I have no symptoms, and I feel fine. How do you get it? Could I have infected my family? I never realized that TB is common enough in the United States to automatically have to test for it.