Education
Why yes, it is School Lunch Hero Day
To celebrate School Lunch Hero Day 2016, I give you “Lunch Lady Land” by Adam Sandler.
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The Joys of Centralized Food Policy
Informeth the Sylva Herald: Students will toss empty milk containers into bins and feed food scraps to worms as Jackson County Schools begins the school year with a new focus…
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Robbing Mary to Pay Peter and Paul
The local daily informs us school lunch prices, for those who pay, are going up ten cents. The extra money is needed to pay for meals for those who couldn’t…
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Kale Satisfies You
Supplemental food sales in Henderson County Schools are $70,000 short of last year’s thanks to federal restrictions. Among the no-nos are sports drinks and ice cream. “And chocolate chip cookies,”…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online features this New Year’s Eve the latest CJ parody on the arrival in North Carolina public schools of a new Farm to Lunchroom program. John Hood’s Daily…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Teenie weenie lunch
A student’s photo of what appears to be a rather unsatisfying lunch from an Oklahoma public school has gone viral. My newsletter that outlines the effects of federal regulations on…
Liberty
On the Obesity Crisis
Here are some thoughts I had after a friendly conversation with one of our city council candidates at his tire store yesterday. I used to think the obesity crisis was…
Liberty
Cherry-Picking in WNC
Here’s a math problem for all you Einsteinians who believe in warping space. Integrate the following news claims into an internally-consistent scenario: Government food subsidies are increasing. SNAP use has…
Education
Bad apples
A concerned parent emailed the following photo to me. Her child attends a public school in Wake County, and those tasty looking apples were served to her son yesterday. In other…
Liberty
$40,000 To Get Chapel Hill Students To Text Lunch Orders To Cafeteria
The Daily Tar Heel reports that UNC researchers are working with Chapel Hill High School on a pilot program to encourage students to text their lunch orders of healthier foods…
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Flash! Fast Food Is Not Steak & Arugula
Coming as a surprise to me, schools have been passing out fast food coupons as rewards. Granted, mediocrity is the only winner these days. However, some Einstein just discovered that…
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What Will The Food Police Do Next?
School kids in Orlando aren’t eating the vegetables federal law forces them have on their school lunch plate. One school board member is suggesting “trashcams” – cameras attached to trash…