For the past three years, Joey Slowik has focused on preventing slug damage to crops. Along the way, Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, has uncovered a lot of odd and interesting information about the often-reviled gastropods. In a free Zoom webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 22, […]
WHITE HOUSE — In his farewell address from the Oval Office Wednesday evening, U.S. President Joe Biden warned of the dangers of the concentration of power and wealth, highlighting the emergence of an “oligarchy” and a “tech-industrial complex.” “The dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people, the dangerous […]
“Trump and his billionaire Cabinet have their priorities backwards. Instead of focusing on lower costs and higher wages, they’re only trying to line their own pockets while breaking promises to working families,” said one critic. Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for treasury secretary, indicated during his confirmation hearing […]
Scott Bessent’s “3-3-3” agenda “requires brutal cuts to health and nutrition and higher costs for families at the grocery store,” said analysts at the Center for American Progress. At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, hedge fund manager and U.S. treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee that at the helm of the […]