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Guest Voz: Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood: “Today we fight back!”

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Most Say Budget Deal Must Include Planned Parenthood Funding

Six-in-ten Americans say any budget deal must maintain funding for the organization. More would blame Republicans (40%) than Democrats (26%) if no deal is reached and the government shuts down.

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Dodger Icon Fernando Valenzuela Appointed Special POTUS Ambassador : LAist

President Obama appointed former Dodgers pitcher and current broadcaster Fernando Valenzuela to a position as “Presidential Ambassador for Citizenship and Naturalization” on Thursday.The appointment is part of the Obama administration’s new Stand Stronger program that aims to promote the rights and opportunities for lawful, permanent residents, and will help these eligible immigrants and refugees become U.S. citizens, the L.A. Times reports. Of the approximately 13.3 million lawful permanent residents living in the United States, 8.8 million of them are eligible to apply for citizenship, says the program’s fact sheet. Stand Stronger was just announced today on “Constitution and Citizenship Day,” a holiday that commemorates the signing of the Constitution on this day in 1787, has a really beautiful website to boot. Among the other celebrity ambassadors appointed by Obama are chef José André, actress Diane Guerrero, and musician Dave Matthews.

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What if One Farm Raised (Almost) Everything You Ate? | Civil Eats

Mike Kwasniewski started the Charm Farm’s whole-diet CSA in Beverly, West Virginia for a slightly different reason: born and raised in West Virginia, he wanted to find a viable way of doing sustainable farming in a less-affluent rural economy.“I didn’t have that urban market where I could get a premium, so if I could supply more to fewer clients, and if I could structure the farm in a way that it could do all of that,” he says. “Then I’d be better off by focusing on serving the local population instead of shipping [my food] off to the closest metro area.”Kwasniewski describes his whole-diet CSA as a “one-farm local food economy,” and he sees the business model as one that would work for other folks in places without a strong base of farmers’ markets and veggie CSAs.

Source: What if One Farm Raised (Almost) Everything You Ate? | Civil Eats