Friday, April 18, 2014

In the news, Sunday, July 7, 2013


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from The Jerusalem Post
from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from The Washington Post

One grower’s grapes of wrath
In the world of dried fruit, America has no greater outlaw than Marvin Horne, 68. Horne, a raisin farmer, has been breaking the law for 11 solid years. He now owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in unpaid fines. And 1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years. His crime? Horne defied one of the strangest arms of the federal bureaucracy — a farm program created to solve a problem during the Truman administration, and never turned off.

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