Probably wouldn’t hurt it you added some cheese too. The official rules of the “Wisconsin Apple Recipe Contest” specifically exclude Granny Smith apples “until they become of commercial importance in Wisconsin.”
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“In a 1991 Northern Illinois University poll, 77 percent of Illinois voters would support state spending increases for public elementary and secondary education”–from a press release from the Committee for the Future of Our Children, which supports the Education Constitutional Amendment assigning preponderant ant responsibility for education funding to the state. The committee does not explain why, if more spending is so popular, state lawmakers don’t just solve the problem by raising taxes to pay for it.
Your tax dollars learning the painfully obvious. A recent (June 23) U.S. General Accounting Office statement on the use of IRS form 8300, “Report of Cash Payments Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business,” notes that 38 percent of such forms surveyed by the GAO had missing or wrong taxpayer identification numbers: “We believe it is reasonable to assume that money launderers who want to hide their identity or their nonfiling status from IRS would not want to provide their correct identification number.”
Advice for newcomers to the field of community development, from Mattie Butler, executive director of the Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors (WECAN), quoted in Community Matters (June): “Always, always distinguish between your own wants and community wants. And always articulate community wants. They may be different at some points.”
