Sherrod Brown credited an Ohio farmer with planting the seed this year that led to a proposal to overhaul federal agriculture subsidies. It was during Brown's "farm tour" that Henry County farmer Mark Schweibert introduced the freshman senator, and member of the agriculture committee, to the idea of replacing subsidies based on flagging crop prices with subsidies based on protecting the overall revenue flowing to a farmer's bottom line. It was during Brown's "farm tour" that Henry County...

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They don't get that candy shouldn't attempt to imitate other food groups, particularly corn. While dieters stock up on candy they don't like so they won't be tempted by leftovers, the rest of us buy the stuff we do like and hope that only one or two of those pesky little costumed punks comes a-knocking. They have contradictory personalities, hoping to express generosity but also having the passive-aggressive desire to damage the fillings of trick-or-treaters. We not only provide the...

If I'd been the grandson of a rich family, I'd have had an aristocratic birth, and all my friends and all my culture would have been marked by a sense of superiority. There wasn't a town, or even a village, just a few isolated houses in a landscape regularly shaken by hurricanes, cyclones, waterspouts and earthquakes. The road that passed through the settlement, the old Camino Real, was nothing more than a mud track along which people travelled on horseback or in ox carts. Not far from my...

The new company imports bean from 14 countries, makes a coffee that is decaffeinated by the Swiss water process and offers chemical-free flavored blends. But Wooledge, who recently gave up her nursing job in Lincoln to devote herself full time to her business, is thinking about renaming the product again. Looking for something a little different, she created a line of funky stained-glass sun catchers, primarily cats and dogs, that Gren says are little cheery symbols of innocence. It uses...