The Boondocks blog, No. 78 for the week starting July 21, 2008.
A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss But No Muss
Tomato Salmonella Scare Over, Hot Pepper Scare Begins
Coming Closer to Euthanizing Wild Horses
Rural Life Becomes Increasingly Costly
Saratoga Fair Lightning Strike Victim Recovering
Rain May Dampen Track’s Opener
National Museum of Horse Racing and Hall of Fame Accused of Violating Zoning Law
The Many Faces of Rural America
61st-annual Clinton County Fair Continues
Paterson Signs Junior Hunter Bill
A State That Never Was in Wyoming
Heller Shows Up for Gun Registration With Petitions
Energy looks at high energy prices and our future.
Enviroman looks at man and the environment.
Hayseeds looks at politics and life in our nation.
Individual looks at myself and how I'm changing
Outblog is all about my outdoor experiences.
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
For those folks with too much money to spend otherwise and a big social conscience:
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on the back porch when he leaves.
Call them the lazy locavores — city dwellers who insist on eating food grown close to home but have no inclination to get their hands dirty. Mr. Paque is typical of a new breed of business owner serving their needs.
Just great.
More things to be paranoid over.
While many people find it hard to believe that the federal government is keeping thousands of excess wild horses, feeding them, and not slaughtering them or putting them to good use, it seems that is the case.
More complete schizophrenia from the federal government. We as a society blow up our landscape, defile our most valuable monuments, destroy and dispose of useful material, and slaughter other animals and human beings in Iraq, at mass, but we don't have the heart to kill waste horses.
Horses are wonderful, kind, animals. They not only do work but also have a great ability to understand human condition. Yet, they are only animals, and some may need to be killed for the improvement of society.
Second home buyers are buying up big chunks of rural land.
Apparently she is doing okay after getting struck by lightening at the fair.
It's a rainy first day for the track.
The National Journal looks at the impact of the Heller decision.
As part of a fund raising effort to cover costs of running the museum they have an advertising partnership with automobile dealers, to park new cars out front.
They've been doing it since 1988. Apparently it violates the new Saratoga zoning laws that prohibit car sales in that area.
High Country News look at the rich and poor that live out in the country, from wealthy-second home owners, to dirt poor farmers, to everybody else in between.
Rural America is no longer Norman Rockwell’s version, if it ever was. Such is the lesson of a recent report by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, a policy research center that focuses on rural communities. The report, entitled Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas, makes clear that it is no longer possible to broadly characterize rural parts of the country. “Rural” now encompasses both wealthy areas with upwardly mobile newcomers in search of a pastoral lifestyle and impoverished places with few jobs and a steadily declining population. Not to mention everything in between.
Fascinating. I know how so much of the Catskills and Adirondack Park is being gentrified, while some places on the outskirts are so rural and poor. I certainly prefer the later, the real places out in the sticks, but even there the rich are buying up a lot of good land.
You can read the full report here.
It is going on now in Plattsburgh and you can get in for $7.
One of the many pieces of legislation he signed yesterday.
Young teens will be able to shoot deer and bear with a gun under adult supervision under a new law creating a junior hunter mentoring program in New York state.
Before the bill was signed by Gov. David Paterson, New York was the only state where 14-year-olds couldn't hunt big game with a firearm. At least 40 states allow 12-year-olds to hunt big game with a gun. In New York, the age limit was 16.
New York's new law allows teens age 14 and 15 to hunt big game with a firearm when supervised by an experienced adult hunter. Previously, children age 12 to 16 could hunt small game with a gun or longbow, and 14- and 15-year-olds could shoot big game with a bow and arrow.
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis said the measure will help recruit new hunters to reverse a trend of declining numbers of hunters and rising numbers of deer, which are effectively controlled only through regulated hunting.
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The New York Times looks at the western libertarian-style of life and how it has adapted to changing times in a state that has come to represent many of the values of the west and Rural America—Wyoming.
Not only is Dick Heller of the Heller v. DC case, registering his first handgun in DC, he also plans to run as a libertarian for Congress.
Not that he has a prayer, but it's still fun to run. I suspect his real impact will be the case that he was a plaintiff for, and how he forced our country to rethink gun control. Thanks to Jacob at NYSRPA Blog for the link.
