GALAX, Va. — Meadow Creek Dairy, a family owned and operated dairy and farmstead cheese farm, has crafted their own unique ways of blending the right breeds to make high quality cheese.

https://americanfarm.com/articles/delmarvafarmer/fleetes-quickly-finding-their-way/

Wages have risen, but inflation in food and housing means families are struggling.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/earning-more-worse-shape-poverty-overwhelms-families-eab13800?st=V3rZc3

Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants ‘Naturally’ Inclined to Farm Labor

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-undocumented-immigrants-naturally-farm-labor-1235400420/

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

Measures intended to punish elite universities are inflicting collateral damage on the nation’s two-year colleges, which educate 40 percent of all undergraduates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein Associate, Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas – The New York Times

https://1e3.us/4m1D5SM

73,000 Jobs Added In July—Fewer Than Expected—As Unemployment Rises

https://1e3.us/4ohyzAZ

For the First Time in Decades, Hikers Can Walk in Forests of Mature, Wild American Chestnuts

https://gardenandgun.com/articles/for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-century-hikers-can-walk-through-forests-of-mature-wild-american-chestnuts/

Trump’s Tax Bill Expands Farm Subsidies. Not All Farmers Will Benefit.

A $60 billion boost to farm subsidies will be a lifeline to some. But the way the funding will be distributed could worsen disparities between farms in an industry already struggling with consolidation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/trump-tax-policy-bill-farmers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/

Trump’s Bold Budget Move Could Destroy the Appalachian Region and No One Is Talking About It (Echoes of Appalachia)

https://appalachianmemories.org/2025/07/16/trumps-shocking-budget-move-could-destroy-the-appalachian-region-and-no-one-is-talking-about-it/

These twins were college divers. Then new NCAA rules changed everything.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07/06/house-v-ncaa-nonrevenue-sports/

Walmart workers say staffing shortages hit without warning, and some stores are struggling to stay afloat.

https://www.mensjournal.com/news/walmart-workers-vanish-overnight-and-employees-sound-the-alarm

Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/virginia-immigration-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE8.Kvna.NQUp3Xcq6Xx7

Botetourt County unveils real-time storm system

https://www.29news.com/2025/07/04/botetourt-county-unveils-real-time-storm-system/

Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/07/04/baltimore-gun-violence-homicides/