Stuff you need to know, 8.10.23

“USDA’s climate grants for farms and forests run into Republican buzzsaw”
by Allison Winter, States Newsroom, for Source NM
August 10, 2023

The Agriculture Department’s largest-ever investment in climate-smart production practices awards grants to growers seeking to create new markets for sustainable agriculture. Republican members of Congress have introduced bills to stop the program for “over-reaching,” and the GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee voted to block spending for it next year.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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