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I’ve started blogging on the food industry for BNET. I’ve been doing it for about a month now, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. Some of my recent posts:
Groups Clash Over Organic Standards for Fish, Milk
More Eating In Means Higher Sales for Heinz, Smucker’s and Campbell Soup
Financial dilemma: For many Muslims, conventional loans can be a sin
By Katherine Glover
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
MinnPost.com
Seven years ago, staff at the Neighborhood Development Center made a realization. Plenty of Somalis and other Muslim immigrants had attended the St. Paul-based center’s trainings for small-business entrepreneurs — but in more than a decade, not one Muslim had ever taken advantage of the center’s small-business loans.
The reason? Islam forbids “reba,” or usury. To some, the term refers merely to excessive interest, but to others, it includes the payment of any kind of interest — making conventional bank loans a sin for them.
Trans (I) Am
Chrissy Nakonsky looks to become the first transgender Republican state legislator from Brainerd (or anywhere)
By Katherine Glover
Minnesota Law & Politics
August/September 2008
A sidebar to “Not the Man She Married.”
scanned article as PDF (scroll down to page 2)
Not the Man I Married
by Katherine Glover
Minnesota Law & Politics
August/September 2008
When a transsexual marries a member of his or her new gender before having reassignment surgery, is there any reason the union shouldn’t be considered legal?
“Generally speaking, the validity of a marriage is measured at the time that the marriage is contracted,” says Phil Duran, a staff attorney with GLBT rights group OutFront Minnesota. “So if at the time of the marriage one person was legally male and one person was legally female, then short of an annulment, the only way you can terminate that is through death or divorce.”
Which adds an extra twist to the legal issues around same-sex marriage.
“If we were ever to get a divorce,” April says, “I could go to Texas and marry another woman, or I could stay here and marry a man.”
Cookin’ With Sun
Sierra Magazine
November/December 2008
Mike and Martha Port sell solar cookers to outdoor enthusiasts in the United States–and use the profits to subsidize sales of the ovens in developing countries.
Also check out the online-only audio interview with Solar Oven Society volunteer and recipe-maker Bill Potts.
Blind activists protest depiction in new film ‘Blindness’
by Katherine Glover
MinnPost
“This is the kind of movie that’s going to make my life harder,” says Jennifer Dunnam, president of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota. “The people in this movie just seem to lose all capacity for creativity and for taking care of themselves, and it’s a problem when real people already think that about blind people.”
Transgender Rights Meeting: Mara Kiesling Mixes Humor with Savvy Insight
by Katherine Glover
Lavender Magazine
April 11, 2008
At a town hall meeting on transgender rights, the executive director of the Washington D.C.-based National Center for Transgender Equality talks about the battle for a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Crop Prices Cut into Conservation
by Katherine Glover
The Environment Report
With grain prices hitting record highs, a lot of farmers are removing land from the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to idle land for conservation. The US Department of Agriculture, which runs the program, says the CRP is still in good shape, but some conservationists disagree.
Thousands March in Gay Pride Parade in Argentine Capital
by Katherine Glover
The Associated Press
Thousands of Argentines waving rainbow flags marched in the annual Gay Pride Parade Saturday in Buenos Aires, where some said they still face discrimination in one of the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America.
First Barbie Store a hit in Argentina
by Katherine Glover
The Associated Press
An Argentine entrepreneur sets up a Barbie “fashiontainment” store including a playroom, beauty salon and coffee shop.
It was an AP wire story so I’m including multiple links in case not all of them stay archived:
Yahoo
MSN