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NPR: When You Waste Food, You're Wasting Tons Of Water, Too

Most of us know to turn the faucet off when we're done using it because, well, to leave it on would be wasting water.

A place where water is wasted that we might not think about, according to a June 6 story on NPR, is food that we throw away.

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Washington Post: What does rural mean? Uncle Sam has more than a dozen answers.

On June 9, The Washington Post carried a front-page article about the federal government's multiple definitions of rural for the variety of programs it has for residents of those areas of the country.

Washington Post columnist: Now is the time to be an infrastructure hawk, not a deficit hawk

Ezra Klein, a columnist for The Washington Post, writes on June 5 about being an infrastructure hawk. He presents an economic and employment argument for investing in infrastructure at this time when interest rates are low and unemployment rates in construction are high.

Read his column