Beef Jerky NewsA Virginia House panel has shot down a plan to lift the state’s ban on Sunday hunting, ending for now a passionate debate that pitted hunting groups against clergy and challenged a longstanding — albeit unusual — Virginia tradition. Virginia is one of roughly a half-dozen states that still restrict Sunday hunting. the ban has [...]
It’s that time of the year again: In late autumn, a bunch of stories on how hunting connects us to meat always appear — but they’re all wrong In a recent Atlantic post, Barry Estabrook confessed, “As a journalist who takes issues surrounding food production seriously, I too have things that drive me crazy.” well, [...]
Wednesday November 30, 2011 Hunters have good reason to be excited about Vermont’s muzzleloader deer season and the second part of the archery deer season, both occurring Dec. 3-11 this year. the later season offers the likelihood of colder temperatures and the prospects for snow — factors that can improve hunter success. Rules for muzzleloader [...]
Hunting out bargains from Spain 6:50am Thursday 13th October 2011 Print Email Comments(0) so, the builders have moved in and I have moved out . . . again! Albeit this time with the hope that I’ll be moving back at some point — the contractor says seven months, so I’ve rounded it up to a [...]
The Department of Fish and Game has secured a $500,000 federal grant to support the creation of additional public hunting and fishing opportunities. the grant, through California’s Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Program, will facilitate public access for wildlife-dependent recreation on private lands. “This significant grant funding is the shot in the arm [...]
A d v e r t i s e m e n t « 2011-03-24 Thu For about 30 minutes on Wednesday afternoon, Parvatee Peggy Maharaj, 17, looked on in horror as three gunmen beat, gagged, and assaulted her parents and 12-year-old brother at their Cumuto home. THE CASE of Chrystal Ramsoomair, a mother who [...]
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE—a White House spokesman says President Barack Obama was kept informed in Chile about the crash of a U.S. fighter jet in Libya and the plight of its crew. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters traveling with Obama to El Salvador that the chief executive was notified of the apparent [...]
WORCESTER — When Lori Long learned during her pregnancy that there was a 10 percent chance her baby would be born with Down syndrome, she wasn’t happy, but she certainly wasn’t sad. “We didn’t do any further testing because it didn’t matter. I knew that I would love her the way she is,” Ms. Long said [...]
Remember last year, when a professor at Wellesley College discovered that the U.S. government had secretly infected scores of Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases medical experiments during the 1940s? among other things, that scandalous revelation prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to issue a formal apology to [...]
So I woke up this morning and checked my Mega Millions numbers to see if I had won the $172 million jackpot. Alas, I did not (if I had won, do you think I’d be writing this post?). Darn. I had already planned what I was going to do with my winnings: I was going [...]
