A Rhode Island School District Is Sending Debt Collectors After Families Over Unpaid Lunches
Jupiterimages/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A school district in Rhode Island wants its lunch money back—and has hired a private debt collection agency to go after parents to get it. The chief operating officer of schools in Cranston, Rhode Island, recently sent a letter to parents warning them…
A New Lawsuit Blames the Trump Administration for Ruining Oysters
Larry Zhou/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2007, the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Oregon lost 75 percent of its oyster larvae. The oyster farmers initially thought it was disease, but that didn’t explain the monumental loss. With help from scientists, they finally pieced together the culprit: The…
Trump Jr. Invested in a Hydroponic Lettuce Company Whose Chair Was Seeking Trump Administration Funds
Donald Trump Jr. departs from the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was originally published by ProPublica. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, took a stake last year in a startup whose co-chairman is a major Trump campaign fundraiser who has…
Romaine Lettuce Is Great But You Shouldn’t Eat It Right Now Because the CDC Says It Is Unsafe
This is a person who loves Romaine lettuce but just got news from the CDC that they’re going to have to stop eating it for a while. They were at the beach when they heard.Antonio Guillem/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A lot of fancy people who live in ivory…
Republicans Tighten Their Grip on Farm Country
Supporters celebrate as they await the victory speech of Mike Braun, who defeated a Democratic incumbent in a race to represent Indiana in the US Senate, Nov. 6, 2018. Darron Cummings/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his Republican Party largely tightened…
The Beverage Industry Has Figured Out a Legal End Run Around Soda Taxes
FangXiaNuo/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Voters in the state of Washington just said yes to a measure that will prevent cities there from enacting “soda taxes”—levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, like the one that passed in Seattle earlier this year. Oregon, meanwhile, said no to a similar initiative. Both measures,…