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...prices are so high. But owners of eligible farmland will still get direct payments regardless of how much their farms earn or whether their farms are still farmed. And even though crop-insurance subsidies have increased nearly tenfold, farmers will still receive disaster aid if things go badly, no matter how often that happens. More than 21,000 farmers have cashed at least 11 disaster checks each in the past 21 years, at a cost of $2.5 billion...
...lose seats if farm programs were revamped. Reformers countered with polls showing support for strict payment limits in those districts, and an analysis showing that most of those districts would receive more money under Kind-Flake through conservation payments. But as a Pelosi aide told them, it didn't matter whether the danger was real; it only mattered that freshmen Democrats believed it. The aggies flew in hundreds of farmers to lobby for the status quo, and several "Blue Dog" Democrats agreed to support Pelosi's efforts to fund children's health insurance with tobacco taxes only if she supported...
Seven years ago, the commission recommended that the Cambridge City Council designate the area a landmark, but the council never voted on the matter...
...Cambridge Historical Commission member Frank Shirley, who participated in the 1999-2000 landmark study, voted against the new study. He said that it was not wise for the commission to initiate a new study, given the history of the matter...
...fact that the American media are still far too interested in the horse race and not interested enough in asking citizens what issues matter to them in coverage,” said Miller, who is executive editor of The Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls, Idaho. “A paper should be going out and talking to citizens first, and building campaign coverage around citizen attitudes about certain issues...