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Alice Waters, food fighter
Advocating locally grown food has taken Alice Waters far beyond Berkeley, home of Chez Panisse, the restaurant she founded in 1971.
Waters is author of nine cookbooks, head of the Chez Panisse Foundation, vice president of Slow Food (as in the opposite of fast food) International. And this week, she will be rubbing elbows with the global muckety mucks attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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Sessions on the forum agenda include “Rethinking the Food Chain” and “Are We Being Bio-Foolish,” topics close to her heart.Waters has been called a food revolutionary for her belief in organically grown foods, served only when they are in season.
Chez Panisse serves only one meal a day, using meats, vegetables and other foodstuffs provided by a carefully developed network of suppliers. Without knowing what the menu will be, diners reserve tables months in advance.
“Chez Panisse is a much larger enterprise than a restaurant,” wrote biographer Thomas McNamee, in Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. “It is a standard-bearer for a system of moral values. It is the leader of a style of cooking, of a social movement, and of a comprehensive philosophy of doing good and living well.”
Waters also pioneered the Edible Schoolyard project, in which schoolchildren prepare and eat food they grow themselves.
Now she is planning an event for Labor Day weekend, called Slow Food Nation, in which farmers and chefs will demonstrate earth-friendly foods.
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Riding Lou Dobbs’ coattails
Lou DobbsLou Dobbs, the tough-talking anchor for CNN, is expert at riding popular opinion. Last week, a group called Americans for Legal Immigration attached itself firmly to Dobbs’ popularity as it launched an effort to draft him for president.
If nothing else, it was a good public relations move by ALIPAC, headed by William Gheen. The group shares Dobbs’ fervor against illegal immigration.
Kevin Horrigan reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that in the first 24 hours Gheen’s group received campaign pledges, should Dobbs choose to run, totaling $160,000. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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In his column headlined “Loupublicans and Dobbsocrats,” Horrigan wrote that when he first saw the email announcing the draft Dobbs effort, he thought it was a joke. He probably wasn’t alone.
But it would be a mistake to discount the appeal of the Harvard-educated broadcaster who has transformed himself into a raving populist. Dobbs says free trade costs American jobs. He regularly bashes big business, big government and the established political parties. CNN calls Dobbs the “leading media advocate” for America’s working men and women.
“The truth is not ‘fair and balanced,’ Dobbs told the New Yorker in 2006.
The Dobbs-for-president buzz is not new. It received a jumpstart in early January when the The Wall Street Journal ran a story about Dobbs gaining attention as a possible independent candidate.
The story quoted Gheen and Dobbs, who said he wasn’t a candidate but he had not ruled out the possibility.
Later that day, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Dobbs about the Journal’s story. Dobbs said he was flattered by the interest and repeated that he wasn’t a candidate but could never say never.
“I’m an advocacy journalist and I’m having a great, great time right now,” Dobbs told Blitzer.
Whether he runs or not, Dobbs will have an impact on the election because of the audience he appeals to. Writing in The Politico last October, Christopher Gacek said that Dobbs “may be the most important person in the 2008 presidential election aside from the candidates themselves.”
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What a huge breath of fresh air should Lou Dobbs throw his hat in the ring. I would definitely vote for him. Not only is he the only MSM news anchor taking on illegal immigration (which he is totally correct on), he has taken on the economy, special interests, lobbyist influence peddling, government corruption, truth in government, religion in politics, free trade and favored trade status issues, national security, the folly of the Iraq War and how contractors are becoming enriched from it, middle class erosion and American worker protection, outsourcing jobs for larger corporate profit, excessive issuance of H-1B visas, our crumbling infrastructure, education, food safety and inspections, the environment, China’s dangerous imports and its influence on our national deficit, NAFTA, SPP, NAU, LOST, ridiculous government treaties, crime, drugs, racial issues and the list goes on.
Lou Dobbs has talked about, taken stances on, exposed and researched more issues than any other presidential candidate ever has or ever will.
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Lou Dobbs is a demagogue living on a 16 mil a year salary in a 300 acre home. He has found a way to be relavant in a world where he has to compete with the likes of oreilly and Hannity. I will vote for a candidate who is sincere on issues. Ron Paul is a believer. Lou Dobbs is a phony.
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Because of Lou there are more than 800,000(nightly viewers) American Citizens that know what’s going on in this country. Meddling foreigner leaders controlling our Politicans all the way up to our President!
The newspapers and television telling us that we are not smart enough to think for ourselves and telling and showing only what they want. Even they although, they’re probably fearful of losing their jobs…won’t admit the truth. Into days world, wrong is right and right is wrong, the is, at least, one person who see through the murky lens and tell the truth based on facts.
Because of that, he is shot down as an over zealous tv personality looking for ratings. Well guess what…….they’re wrong and the silent voices were listening and are now being heard. Guess that makes some people and governments nervous, so be it……LOU will get my money and my time if he runs!!! We need an American for America and not for businesses or foreign countries!
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Lou Dobbs quote from his book ‘Independents Day’:
The key difference between our two parties is purely partisan: While Democrats describe themselves as liberal, progressive, and committed to civil liberties, and Republicans describe themselves as conservative and committed to tradition and social stability, the truth is, their only guiding principles are that Democrats are anti-Republican while Republicans are anti-Democrat. They have become nothing more than two wings of the same bird.
If the distinction between Republicans and Democrats is blurred and increasingly unclear, it’s in large part due to the fact that both parties are dependent on the largesse of corporate America and the influence of special interests. Bush has sent tens of thousands of our troops around the world to fight the war on terror, and hundreds of thousands to Iraq and Afghanistan, yet for 6 years he has insisted upon leaving our borders and ports open to the illegal traffic of millions of illegal aliens and billions of dollars in illegal drugs.
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LOL, he will go as far as Tom Tancredo. I hope he runs. The guy is a LOSER
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We also need someone who has the guts to stand up to the President of Mexico who can not get it through his thick head we are a sovereign Nation run by “we the people”. Lou Dobbs is the only one to stand on national tv and tell Caleron to “stuff it” and mind his own business. Has our so called President or any member of our congress done this yet….I think not.
And because they haven’t, expect Calderon’s visit in Feb.to be apart of a pandering visit with our congress to try to stop what he calls the rhetoric in our presidential campaign by the GOP against illegal aliens. Something he can not get though his pea brain that citizens are demanding the issue be talked about.
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Scary Spice gets even, and more
Tracking the breakup aftermath for Spice Girl Melanie Brown and Eddie Murphy, it would seem that Scary Spice is coming out on top.
After ending his romantic involvement with the pregnant Brown in 2006, Murphy famously said, “I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test.” Brown and Murphy went to court to determine the paternity of Angel Iris Murphy Brown, and it was determined that Murphy was the father.
Since then, Melanie Brown has had a record year. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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Brown juggled rehearsing for the Spice Girls reunion tour with practicing for her American television debut on ABC’s reality hit, Dancing with the Stars. She outshined her competitors, including Marie Osmond and Jennie Garth, and ended up finishing in second place.
She also married her new boyfriend, Stephen Belafonte, in June, 2007.
Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy lost the best supporting actor Oscar to Alan Arkin, and then had to have his publicist dispel rumors that he stomped out of the award show, upset at his loss.
Murphy has made recent headlines for equally embarrassing reasons. After his breakup with Brown, he started dating film producer Tracey Edmonds. He proposed and they exchanged vows in a ceremony in Bora Bora on New Year’s Day.
A mere two weeks later, the couple decided against legalizing their wedding vows in the U.S., releasing the statement: “While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”
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Hah!! I absolutely love MEL B. she is amazing.. as for Eddie Murphy!!
what a prik!! Mel B. Is way out of his leugue.. he should have felt blessed to be with her.. looks like he screwed that up!! what a nobber!!
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Forget news, is McClatchy a real estate play?
Shares of McClatchy stock hit their lowest price in a couple decades Friday, reducing the market cap of the nation’s third largest publisher of newspapers to about $900 million.
That’s a stop-the-presses number. Ten years ago, McClatchy paid one and a half times that amount for just one newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which it is has since sold.
McClatchy’s stock price fell more than 70 percent in 2007. If the trend continues, it won’t be long before one of the company’s dominant assets will be the land and buildings it owns in fast-growing urban areas like Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, Kansas City and Fort Worth.
Investors may not value newspaper operations anymore, but there is a steady appetite for prime commercial real estate. And McClatchy, with 31 dailies in 29 markets, has some.
CEO Gary Pruitt isn’t ready to put on his Realtor’s jacket just yet. He told The Wall Street Journal in December: “I think the future is bright for newspapers.”
But in the news business these days, it’s always good to have a Plan B.
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Patti Solis Doyle regroups for NH primary
Patti Solis Doyle, campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, is in the fight of her life.
Doyle, whose ties to Clinton go back to 1991, when she was hired as Clinton’s scheduler, has five days to turn the tide. After a solid defeat in Iowa, the New Hampshire primary is a crucial contest for a candidate who was once considered a Democratic shoo-in.
This is Doyle’s first national campaign. Although she prefers to stay behind the scenes, she is known as a fiercely competitive person who runs a tight, well-organized operation. She has described herself as “tough as dirt.” (Story continues below interactive map.)
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The daughter of Mexican immigrants and sister of Chicago City Council President Daniel Solis, Doyle has long enjoyed the friendship and full confidence of her boss. She helped strategize Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000 and has headed her political operations in recent years.She is married to Jim Doyle, senior VP at Penn Schoen and Berland. The firm’s president, Mark Penn, is Clinton’s pollster.
There’s no indication yet of any reorganization in the Clinton camp. Last week, Clinton dismissed such speculation. “There’s no turmoil, no shake-up,” she told the Wall Street Journal. “I have total trust in Patti, who’s my campaign manager, confidante and friend.”
The candidate boarded a plane at midnight, heading for New Hampshire, hoping to repeat her husband’s 1992 victory there.
“Hillary is going to continue making the case that in these serious times when America faces big challenges, it will take a leader with the strength and experience to deliver real change,” Doyle told reporters.
“This race begins tonight and ends when Democrats throughout America have their say. Our campaign was built for a marathon and we have the resources to run a national race in the weeks ahead.”
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