Chicago water sampling shows high levels of lead
In a new round of water testing by the Environmental Protection Agency, half of the 29 Chicago homes visited yielded at least one sample containing more than 15 parts per...
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Nation’s schools could learn something from Chicago’s early lunch trials
In the next day or so you might see a lot of stories about the nation's terrific new school lunch standards. Today (Wednesday), for instance, First Lady Michelle Obama is...
‘Lunch ladies’ criticize how CPS updated school food
Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released...
What’s new in federal slaughtering regulations?
Every time you think you have an unpleasant job, consider the job of a federal slaughterhouse inspector. Two recent regulatory developments on meat slaughter in the U.S. offer a picture....
Celebrity chef Paula Deen reveals she has type 2 diabetes
Celebrity southern chef Paula Deen announced Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and then -- seemingly without missing a beat -- she added that she's working...
School lunch apples could make fruit haters of us all
Before leaving home for recent trip with my kids, I stopped to slice up a few apples for a snack on the plane. But before I slipped them in a...
Durbin queries USDA about school lunch abuses
Responding to a Tribune article on fraud risks in the federal free-lunch program, Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking what his department...
School lunch apples could make fruit haters of us all
Before leaving home for recent trip with my kids, I stopped to slice up a few apples for a snack on the plane. But before I slipped them in a...
Durbin asks federal agency to help reduce school lunch fraud risk
Responding to a baiduhai story on fraud risks in the federal free lunch program, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois today sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking...
School free-lunch program dogged by abuses at CPS
When a teachers assistant at Chicago's North-Grand High School handed in her child's lunch form last school year, it showed that her household made too much money for the child...