by Carson Scott | Aug 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
We had just wrapped up Judge Tunheim’s JFK Masterclass Thursday when news came through that David Cameron had been dealt a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Syria — forcing him to rule out British participation in any assault. It was only after...
by Diana Duran | Aug 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
This trip is also about changing stereotypes. Two Republicans have helped me along that path. This image is posted on the IEC’s website. For a long time the Republican party has refused to welcome immigrants into the U.S. At least,...
by Veronica Kwabla | Aug 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
I must confess I have not read any of her books but the exhibit on the history of the Ingalls Family Life, I saw at a museum in Walnut grove is fascinating.Am told her daughter Rose inspired Laura to write the books. Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer and...
by Paul Henson | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
(“Million People March” against corruption in Manila. photo by Koryn Iledan) It was an idyllic outdoor setting for a talk by historian Bill Bolin: surrounded by the trees and the lake at the Shetek Retreat...
by Veronica Kwabla | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every newsroom has a TV set and radio as well to monitor competition but to have a news studio in a newspaper newrooms i find that innovative or rather controversial. Is this the next big thing for the print media? Stribcast Veenita Sawkar Anchors’...
by Tao Fu | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve learned every year China imports a lot of corn and soybean from America. It is still a controversial topic in China because of the relation to GMO. Meanwhile, I’ve read some reports on American families’ adopting Chinese orphans. However,...
by Diana Duran | Aug 28, 2013 | Agriculture
“That’s the way it is”: a phrase that should be deleted from our vocabulary. Soybean crops near Tracy, MN. The grean ocean. The following conversation took place in the morning of Aug. 26/2013, inside the scoopmobile, between...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Aug 27, 2013 | Agriculture, Food Security, Global Business
As we left the Twin Cities and headed southwest towards the small town of Tracy – the ‘big city’ in the storied “Little House on the Prairie” TV series – the landscape gradually changed from thick pine trees to rolling grasslands. Corn and soybean crops swayed...
by Ami Kaufman | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today is one of those days where I remember a poem by the famous Jewish poet of medieval Spain, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. The first line of “Libi Ba’Mizrach,” (My Heart is in the East) probably his most famous work of art, is: “My heart is in the East, and I am in the...
by Carson Scott | Aug 27, 2013 | Food Security
In the immortal words of Mae West: “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” So it was — offered the choice en route from Tracy to the Twin Cities of Subway or McDonalds — I went for the latter (together with four kindred Fellows) …...
