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CT schools, food banks lose federal money to buy from local farms

The CT Mirror 17 Mar 2025
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Small food businesses that won Business Builder awards from USDA face uncertainty due to funding freeze

The Dickinson Press 17 Mar 2025
BRANDON, S.D. and MEDINA, N.D ... ADVERTISEMENT ... In 2022, then-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the centers "a new, critical asset as we continue our work to strengthen and enhance local and regional food systems across the nation.” ... On Feb ... .
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Government shutdown looms. Will it affect weather alerts? Social Security? SNAP? Student loans?

News Herald - Panama City 14 Mar 2025
Saturday, March 15 ... government running ... 30 ... But funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) would stop immediately, according to former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in a press briefing last year.
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Polk County Administrator John Norris to resign in more-than half-million-dollar deal

Des Moines Register 10 Mar 2025
Tom Vilsack and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 2018, Norris soon fired county human resources chief Jim Nahas, a McCoy ally who had clashed with Hockensmith and others.
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As bird flu continues to drive egg prices higher, lawmakers eye vaccination

Ames Tribune 03 Mar 2025
Straight Arrow News ... U.S ... She also said the U.S ... Biden's USDA, under then-agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, kicked off vaccine research in April 2023, saying avian influenza vaccination trials had begun, with vaccines likely ready in a couple years.
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Why ‘cage-free’ eggs are not all they’re cracked up to be

New York Post 02 Mar 2025
6 ... Portland Press Herald via Getty Images ... Inside the cut-throat world of ‘true-crime’ TV news ... 6 ... Compare that to her predecessor under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Tom Vilsack, who never worked on a farm and grew up in Pittsburgh.
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Yeah, Rob Sand is political. He still needs to audit ESAs for private schools. | Opinion

Des Moines Register 02 Mar 2025
WATCH. Auditor Rob Sand says state won't turn over information on the ESA program,. Iowa Auditor Rob Sands claims the state won't turn over information about the ESA program during a press conference on Tuesday, Feb ... Gov ... Tom Vilsack’s budgets illegal.
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