By BY ALANA CELII, MICHAEL CORKERY, GABRIEL GIANORDOLI AND JONNO RATTMAN from Business in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/01/business/wilkes-barre-pa-main-street-recovery.html?partner=IFTTT
We spent the last four months photographing four blocks along the south end of Wilkes-Barre’s Main Street to capture the pandemic’s impact.
How a Hobbled Main Street Survived the Pandemic ‘Asteroid’ New York Times
Coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants have created a backlog of animals ready for slaughter but with nowhere to go. Farmers are having
It’s really depressing. I know these animals were doomed to slaughter anyway, but this just shows how many animals were brought into existence just to be murdered.
““There are farmers who cannot finish their sentences when they talk about what they have to do,” said Greg Boerboom, a second-generation pig farmer in Marshall, Minn., who is trying to find ways to avoid killing a backlog of more than 1,000 pigs.
“This will drive people out of farming. There will be suicides in rural America.”
The number of pigs being slaughtered but not used for food is staggering. In Iowa, the nation’s largest pork-producing state, agricultural officials expect the backlog to reach 600,000 hogs over the next six weeks. In Minnesota, an estimated 90,000 pigs have been killed on farms since the meat plants began closing last month.”
For years, Wells Fargo Bank has knowingly ripped off its customers. The NY Times has done an awesome job of covering the crime. Those who have paid for their wrongdoing and those who haven’t are demonstrations of Democracy At Work—ha! It’s
time to end the insanity. If you’ve got an account at Wells Fargo, pull it. Who cares if it’s $100. It adds up if we all do it, consumers stop putting up with…
Before they can drive off the lot, many subprime borrowers must have their car outfitted with a so-called starter interrupt device, which allows lenders to remotely disable the ignition. Using the GPS technology on the devices, the lenders can also track the cars’ location and movements.