Steven Roberts

1 week ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts

Pennsylvania has sued the Department of Agriculture for breach of contract. The state claims that the agency has illegally terminated funding for two critical programs providing more than $1 billion annually to nonprofit services aimed at combating hunger. “I don’t get what the hell their priorities are if not feeding people and taking care of our farmers,” the state’s governor, Josh Shapiro, told a news conference.

2 weeks ago | columbiamissourian.com | Steven Roberts

By Steven Roberts Pennsylvania has sued the Department of Agriculture for breach of contract. The state claims that the agency has illegally terminated funding for two critical programs providing more than $1 billion annually to nonprofit services aimed at combating hunger. "I don't get what the hell their priorities are if not feeding people and taking care of our farmers," the state's governor, Josh Shapiro, told a news conference.

3 weeks ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts

At a town hall meeting in the Pentagon last February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.'”Talk about dumb. Many former officers, who are now free to speak out, argue that Hegseth’s Holy War against diversity in the military is profoundly self-destructive. In the name of bolstering our nation’s defenses, he’s making them weaker, not stronger.

1 month ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts

Sen. Josh Hawley is a deeply conservative and decidedly ambitious Republican from Missouri who hopes to run for president. In an extraordinary essay for The New York Times, he broke sharply from Donald Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill who are promoting a huge budget bill that would slash popular safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps to finance trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

1 month ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a street corner near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, and sent to a detention camp in Louisiana. Her only crime was that she dared to write an opinion piece for the student paper at Tufts, “criticizing the university’s response to pro-Palestinian demands,” reports The New York Times.