The Supremes Take a Hit

The federalist smoke from medical marijuana reaches the Supreme Court. Can they clear the air on states' rights, pot, and the Constitution?

"...of a product (in Wickard, wheat grown on a family farm and used for household consumption) may actually affect..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Hightower Lowdown

High Tech Brought Low; All Expenses Paid

"...industrialized agribusiness is rapidly displacing Old Mac, replacing our family farmers with corporate pharmacists who fatten their livestock not..."

Jan. 26, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

A Little Help From My Friends; The Buddy System

"...their careers helping giant firms prevail over the environment, family farmers, workers, consumers, taxpayers, and any other people's interest...."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Soul Searching

Asleep at the Switch

"...a majority of working families and small businesspeople and family farmers and old folks and children and environmentalists. So..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Cochon555 Heritage BBQ Is All About the Old-School Pork

Nat’l culinary competition delights with food, drink, and knowledge

"...pig competition started a series of national conversations about family farmers struggling to educate chefs and consumers about the..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tiny Pies Opens Retail Store

Piemakers step up to brick-and-mortar outlet

"...After three years of farmers' market booths and wholesale sales, the talented mother-daughter baking..."

March 29, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Bonneville: Fresh and Seasonal Done Right

New chefs in town throw down

"...ago, however, I was down at the Sunset Valley Farmers Market, and at the Chef Demo tent two white-coated..."

June 6, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

'The NFL Beat': Championship Edition

Ice down the Champagne

"...the equivalent of the annual North Eastern Pennsylvania Beet Farmers' Convention. The fruits of our labor are ready to..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The Hightower Report

Remaking Trade Policy; and Wall Street's Fee Scammers

"...advance the interests of our working families, the environment, family farmers, small businesses, public health, and national sovereignty. It..."

July 24, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Burning Down the Ags: Is It Ever Enough?

Thanksgiving = turkey, then football, then shopping

"...outdoor grilling you did to while the time with family and friends after assuring yourself of an early and..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Bocaditos

Sambazon organic juices, smoothies, and sorbets

"...and creates new and ongoing employment for thousands of family farmers. Last November, Sambazon received the Secretary of State..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Food Column by Claudia Alarcón

Naked City

Austin Stories

"..."A Kucinich administration will put the interests of America's family farmers, consumers, and environment above the greed of industrial..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Report

The Business Roundtable fights for CEOs' rights to rip off stockholders; Bushites fight for more bureaucracy and big government; and Tom DeLay fights for the rich.

"...offered to exempt 99.7% of all families -- including family farmers and small businesses -- from paying any estate..."

June 28, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

Enron's true crimes are the legal things it did; Boeing patriotically rips off us taxpayers; and Bob Barr acts like a crack smoker.

"...hemp would be a profitable, environmentally sound crop for family farmers today. Never mind all this, says his Bobness,..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

The media buys the Pentagon's lies, W can't keep his free-market ideology straight, and biotechnology brings us Frankenpigs.

"...scientific quick fixes, but sustainable agriculture based on small family farmers, rather than massive concentrations of animals in confined..."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postscripts

Trust Us, We're Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future looks like it's good for you. But it's not a didactic or joyless read. John Stauber, the book's co-author, will be at BookPeople on Monday, June 25, at 7pm.

"...organized a small, by-invitation-only conference in Washington, D.C., for family farmers and consumer and animal welfare organizations that Stauber..."

June 22, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Benevolent Agitator

Jim Hightower's undiluted populism is wittty, rousing, and engaging, Clay Smith asserts in a review of Hightower's new book If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Candidates

"...consist of people we know, he asserts. "They're the family farmers of the eighties and nineties who were suckered..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Food-o-File

Teach a Family to Garden, They Eat All Year

"...raise $58,000 to support its important programs such as farmers' markets, community gardens, and the La Cocina Allegre cooking..."

March 26, 1999 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The 'Mold Queen' Fights Back

Melinda Ballard beat the insurance companies in court. Now she's carrying her fight to the politicians and the public.

"...former advertising executive won a $32 million judgment against Farmers Insurance, a controversial courtroom victory that propelled her into..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in a car accident going to a game, my family got nothing from the school district. Not a phone..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Sambhar in the City

Anjore redefines Indian cuisine

"...she says. Since meat was strictly forbidden inside her family's South Indian Brahmin household, she would hide bites of..."

June 5, 2015 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

On the Road to the Right Recipe

Austin chefs tour area farms

"...Local chefs and local farmers: It's a natural match. Coming from opposite ends of..."

July 15, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

Crackdown

If local eggs are outlawed, will only outlaws have eggs?

"...20 years in business, Kim Alexan­der, owner of Alexander Family Farm, just east of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Documentary wonders how to change minds about climate change

"...travels the US Midwest to talk with her fellow farmers about climate change...."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Food-o-File

Sarah's Party, a benefit for Sarah Rowland of Hairston Creek Farm, will feature locally produced foods and beverages and a silent auction

"...four couples who pioneered the modern organic farm and farmers' market movement in Central Texas in the early Nineties...."

May 23, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...center, Wynn stopped at his favorite department – the Family Reunion Center, where a dozen or so people had..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Into Town

Will Austin shoppers support a Downtown farmers' market?

"...When the new Austin Farmers' Market opens this weekend in Republic Square Park, the..."

May 2, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Event Menu

Foodie events and benefits around town

"...makes his debut with a stall in the Austin Farmers' Market (Fourth & Guadalupe), serving grilled sausages and hot..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Food Column

The Farmer and The Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat and for Saving the Planet One Bite at a Time

Farmer Shannon Hayes shares grass-fed knowledge, and all your local meat is here

"...this cookbook by farmer Shannon Hayes. Hayes and her family raise, slaughter, and sell grass-fed livestock at Sap Bush..."

July 4, 2008 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Capital Idea!

On the phone, on the Web, on the farm, or in the store: giving a little Austin to the foodies on your gift list

"...Fredericksburg organic farmers Sandi and Hugh Sabel now have a specialty foods..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Food Feature

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