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Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jim Goodman We often think that farmers markets are products of our times as they spring up in cities and small towns across the country. Truth is, a farmers market is the traditional way of selling agricultural produce around the world. The really nice aspect of this transaction is that the farmer receives just compensation for his product and the eater can be assured the product is fresh,...
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WPPA & WAVT LOCAL NEWS (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Homicide case now being handled by DA, state police The investigation into the death of Luis Ramirez is now in the hands of the Schuylkill County District Attorney's office and the Pennsylvania State Police. While no charges have been filed yet in Ramirez's beating death on July 12th, DA Jim Goodman and other officials met at the courthouse yesterday to continue the probe. Goodman told...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... spokeswoman Ellen Borakove. Sadly, it was the second U.S. death of a triathlete in a month. Jim Goodman, 46, of Urbandale, Iowa, died on June 22 during the Hy-Vee Triathlon in Des Moines. Goodman was about 150 meters from finishing the swim third of the race, when he motioned for help and had to be pulled from the water. Additional reporting by David K. Li
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
By Jim Goodman We are, for better or worse, part of the land we live on. We can choose to extract as much as possible from the earth around us, the "Manifest Destiny" (or nature's in my way) line of thinking. Or we can take as little as necessary and leave as small a trace as possible, the "Seventh Generation" concept of the Native American peoples. If farming well were easy and profitable,...
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carpe factum (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
I was very saddened to find out that Jim Goodman passed away today. He was competing in the Hy-Vee Triathalon here in Des Moines, and suffered a heart attack. A lot of people will read the statistics about Jim. He...
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A 46-year-old man died Sunday after being pulled from the water during the swimming leg of the amateur competition in the Hy-Vee Triathlon.Jim Goodman, of Urbandale, signaled for help when he was about 150 meters from the shore of Blue Heron Lake, said Chris Friesleben, a spokeswoman for the sponsoring Hy-Vee grocery store chain.She said rescuers in a nearby boat...
