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Dana Hull | (TNS) Bloomberg News Jared Birchall, Elon Musk’s money manager and the head of his family office, is listed as the chief executive officer. Jehn Balajadia, a longtime Musk aide who has worked at SpaceX and the Boring Co., is named as an official contact. Related Articles National Politics | Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus National Politics | Biden vetoes once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal judgeships, citing ‘hurried’ House action National Politics | A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his own National Politics | President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America’s tallest peak National Politics | Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use But they’re not connected to Musk’s new technology venture, or the political operation that’s endeared him to Donald Trump. Instead, they’re tied to the billionaire’s new Montessori school outside Bastrop, Texas, called Ad Astra, according to documents filed with state authorities and obtained via a Texas Public Information Act request. The world’s richest person oversees an overlapping empire of six companies — or seven, if you include his political action committee. Alongside rockets, electric cars, brain implants, social media and the next Trump administration, he is increasingly focused on education, spanning preschool to college. One part of his endeavor was revealed last year, when Bloomberg News reported that his foundation had set aside roughly $100 million to create a technology-focused primary and secondary school in Austin, with eventual plans for a university. An additional $137 million in cash and stock was allotted last year, according to the most recent tax filing for the Musk Foundation. Ad Astra is closer to fruition. The state documents show Texas authorities issued an initial permit last month, clearing the way for the center to operate with as many as 21 pupils. Ad Astra’s website says it’s “currently open to all children ages 3 to 9.” The school’s account on X includes job postings for an assistant teacher for preschool and kindergarten and an assistant teacher for students ages 6 to 9. To run the school, Ad Astra is partnering with a company that has experience with billionaires: Xplor Education, which developed Hala Kahiki Montessori school in Lanai, Hawaii, the island 98% owned by Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison. Ad Astra sits on a highway outside Bastrop, a bedroom community about 30 miles from Austin and part of a region that’s home to several of Musk’s businesses. On a visit during a recent weekday morning, there was a single Toyota Prius in the parking lot and no one answered the door at the white building with a gray metal roof. The school’s main entrance was blocked by a gate, and there was no sign of any children on the grounds. But what information there is about Ad Astra makes it sound like a fairly typical, if high-end, Montessori preschool. The proposed schedule includes “thematic, STEM-based activities and projects” as well as outdoor play and nap time. A sample snack calendar features carrots and hummus. While Birchall’s and Balajadia’s names appear in the application, it isn’t clear that they’ll have substantive roles at the school once it’s operational. Musk, Birchall and Balajadia didn’t respond to emailed questions. A phone call and email to the school went unanswered. Access to high quality, affordable childcare is a huge issue for working parents across the country, and tends to be an especially vexing problem in rural areas like Bastrop. Many families live in “childcare deserts” where there is either not a facility or there isn’t an available slot. Opening Ad Astra gives Musk a chance to showcase his vision for education, and his support for the hands-on learning and problem solving that are a hallmark of his industrial companies. His public comments about learning frequently overlap with cultural concerns popular among conservatives and the Make America Great Again crowd, often focusing on what he sees as young minds being indoctrinated by teachers spewing left-wing propaganda. He has railed against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and in August posted that “a lot of schools are teaching white boys to hate themselves.” Musk’s educational interests dovetail with his new role as Trump’s “first buddy.” The billionaire has pitched a role for himself that he — and now the incoming Trump administration — call “DOGE,” or the Department of Government Efficiency. Though it’s not an actual department, DOGE now posts on X, the social media platform that Musk owns. “The Department of Education spent over $1 billion promoting DEI in America’s schools,” the account posted Dec. 12. Back in Texas, Bastrop is quickly becoming a key Musk point of interest. The Boring Co., his tunneling venture, is based in an unincorporated area there. Across the road, SpaceX produces Starlink satellites at a 500,000-square-foot (46,000-square-meter) facility. Nearby, X is constructing a building for trust and safety workers. Musk employees, as well as the general public, can grab snacks at the Boring Bodega, a convenience store housed within Musk’s Hyperloop Plaza, which also contains a bar, candy shop and hair salon. Ad Astra is just a five-minute drive away. It seems to have been designed with the children of Musk’s employees — if not Musk’s own offspring — in mind. Musk has fathered at least 12 children, six of them in the last five years. “Ad Astra’s mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in the next generation of problem solvers and builders,” reads the school’s website. A job posting on the website of the Montessori Institute of North Texas says “While their parents support the breakthroughs that expand the realm of human possibility, their children will grow into the next generation of innovators in a way that only authentic Montessori can provide.” The school has hired an executive director, according to documents Bloomberg obtained from Texas Health and Human Services. Ad Astra is located on 40 acres of land, according to the documents, which said a 4,000-square-foot house would be remodeled for the preschool. It isn’t uncommon for entrepreneurs to take an interest in education, according to Bill Gormley, a professor emeritus at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University who studies early childhood education. Charles Butt, the chairman of the Texas-based H-E-B grocery chain, has made public education a focus of his philanthropy. Along with other business and community leaders, Butt founded “Raise Your Hand Texas,” which advocates on school funding, teacher workforce and retention issues and fully funding pre-kindergarten. “Musk is not the only entrepreneur to recognize the value of preschool for Texas workers,” Gormley said. “A lot of politicians and business people get enthusiastic about education in general — and preschool in particular — because they salivate at the prospect of a better workforce.” Musk spent much of October actively campaigning for Trump’s presidential effort, becoming the most prolific donor of the election cycle. He poured at least $274 million into political groups in 2024, including $238 million to America PAC, the political action committee he founded. While the vast majority of money raised by America PAC came from Musk himself, it also had support from other donors. Betsy DeVos, who served as education secretary in Trump’s first term, donated $250,000, federal filings show. The Department of Education is already in the new administration’s cross hairs. Trump campaigned on the idea of disbanding the department and dismantling diversity initiatives, and he has also taken aim at transgender rights. “Rather than indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material, which is what we’re doing now, our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work,” Trump wrote in Agenda 47, his campaign platform. Musk has three children with the musician Grimes and three with Shivon Zilis, who in the past was actively involved at Neuralink, his brain machine interface company. All are under the age of five. Musk took X, his son with Grimes, with him on a recent trip to Capitol Hill. After his visit, he shared a graphic that showed the growth of administrators in America’s public schools since 2000. Musk is a fan of hands-on education. During a Tesla earnings call in 2018, he talked about the need for more electricians as the electric-car maker scaled up the energy side of its business. On the Joe Rogan podcast in 2020, Musk said that “too many smart people go into finance and law.” “I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we need electricians and plumbers and carpenters,” Musk said while campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania in October. “That’s a lot more important than having incremental political science majors.” Ad Astra’s website says the cost of tuition will be initially subsidized, but in future years “tuition will be in line with local private schools that include an extended day program.” “I do think we need significant reform in education,” Musk said at a separate Trump campaign event. “The priority should be to teach kids skills that they will find useful later in life, and to leave any sort of social propaganda out of the classroom.” With assistance from Sophie Alexander and Kara Carlson. ©2024 Bloomberg News. Visit at bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Detroit-based meat manufacturer Wolverine Packing Co. is at the heart of an ongoing E. coli recall covering over 160,000 pounds of product. First announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Wednesday , the recall covers about 167,277 pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef distributed to restaurants across the U.S. According to the notice, over 100 products manufactured by Wolverine Packing Co. are subject to recall after 15 illnesses were reported to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and traced back to its ground beef. Affected products could still be in restaurant refrigerators and should be immediately disposed of, warned the agency. Unlike some other major outbreaks like Boar's Head , the name Wolverine Packing Co. likely won't trigger recognition in most consumer's minds. Here's what to know about the company at the center of the call. What is Wolverine Packing Co.? Wolverine Packing Co. is a Detroit-based protein company that stocks more than 250 brands and 4,000 different products, according to its website . Founded in 1937 as a lamb and veal processor, the three-generation, family-owned company later expanded into steak and beef. By 2012, it grew to supply ground beef products to all 50 states and some other countries. Its production facilities also grew, expanding to employ 500 employees in multiple buildings in Detroit’s Historic Eastern Market by 2016, and a new facility was erected in Forest Park in 2018, the company's website says. Today, the company employs more than 900 and distributes boxed beef, pork, poultry, lamb, veal, frozen seafood, portioned-cut meats and ground beef, the company says on its website. Some well-recognized brands stocked by Wolverine Packing Co. include Tyson, Jennie-O, Perdue, Certified Angus Beef and Western Buffalo. The company was previously involved in a large recall in 2014, when 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products were recalled also due to possible E. coli contamination, resulting in 11 illnesses in four states. What products are included in the Wolverine Packing Co. recall? The recall covers over 100 raw fresh and frozen ground beef products. Products are sold under other brand names in addition to Wolverine Packing Co., including 1855 Beef, Davis Creek Meals, Farmer's Choice, Heritage Restaurant Brands, and Cheney Brothers, Inc., according to a list of labels released by the USDA . Fresh products have a “use by” date of 11/14/2024 and the frozen products are labeled with a production date of 10/22/24. All impacted products have the establishment number “EST. 2574B” inside the USDA mark of inspection. See the full list as released by the USDA here:Poll shows share of Americans who expect political arguments to go with their turkeyMan arraigned on murder charges in NYC subway death fanned flames with a shirt, prosecutors say
UTICA — The search for solutions continues for a Utica Com ets squad tr ying to string together positives during the 2024-25 season. Utica is mired in a team-record 13-game winless streak eight weeks into the regular season. It has put Utica in a difficult situation before the Comets have played a quarter of the 72-game American Hockey League season. How does the team get on the other side of the results? “I think we just got to keep sticking with it, keep believing,” said winger Max Willman, who recently surpassed the 200-game mark between the AHL and NHL. “I think our game is trending in the right direction and we’re in a lot of these games that we’re losing. But, I think it’s just sticking to the kind of process that we’ve been working on during the week and going from there.” With a quirk in the schedule, the Comets have played twice over a 12-day stretch. Utica interim head coach Ryan Parent said practice time has had a focus on special teams. The team’s power play unit (17%) is 19th in the 32-team league. The penalty kill, meanwhile, is last at 71.4%. “You’ve got a good idea of what the team does, but an area you can really get a lot tighter is special teams when you’ve got a week to look at them,” Parent said. “It’s an area that we need to improve.” Parent said the players have had “good energy” recently despite at tough time on the ice. Utica is already 13 points behind fifth-place Syracuse and the eventual playoff line for the North Division. The struggles have persisted for Utica following the extremely rare in-season coaching change earlier this month by officials from the parent New Jersey Devils. “It is hard when maybe on an individual basis, guys are disappointed with how they’ve played as a team,” Parent said. “What we’re trying to do is, you can’t look at the past. You can’t have a ‘woe is me’ feeling during a game if they score a goal. It’s how you respond to that goal that’s important. We can’t continue to talk about what’s happened. The only way we’re going to get out of it is to learn from it and move on.” He said the Comets’ focus is “a fresh start regardless of the situation we’re in.” “We can look forward on it and we can get positives from little plays during games. There’s little victories that we can celebrate so we’re not constantly looking at the negative results that we’re having,” Parent said. An unpleasant league winless mark looms in the background three years after the Comets made AHL history with 13 consecutive wins to start the season. The Baltimore Skipjacks started the 1987-88 campaign with a 21-game winless streak, an AHL record. This weekend features road games against North Division rivals Syracuse on Friday and Rochester on Saturday. The contests begin a stretch in which Utica has 10 of the next 13 games on the road. Utica has three home games remaining in 2024, including Wednesday vs. Providence. If the Comets aren’t able to find a level that team officials believe they can play, the situation could quickly get worse. Willman believes the Comets have a good group of players that gets along well. The team, which has had its share of roster change in recent days, has a m ix of experience including captain Ryan Schmelzer, alternate captains Joe Gambardella and Sam Laberge and defensemen Colton White and Andy Welinski. There’s also Max Willman (career-best 12 goals last season) and Brian Halonen (25 goals in his last 48 games) mixed in with top prospects in defensemen Šimon Nemec and Seamus Casey and forward Chase Stillman, who had a solid rookie season with Utica. There’s also goalies Nico Daws and Isaac Poulter, who have had up-and-down seasons so far. “It is sticking with it and not deviating from it, just because a couple of things have not been going our way,” Willman said. Parent said the team is healthy — he knocked on the wooden podium he was standing near when asked Thursday — which would mark the first time this season for the Comets. All 14 forwards and seven defensemen on the roster were present Thursday. One one of the biggest struggles is on offense as the team has been shut out four times in 13 games. That includes the last two games against Cleveland and Syracuse, pushing a goalless streak to more than 132 minutes. The team has scored just 21 goals, fewest in the AHL. Conversely, five teams have already accumulated more standings points. How does the team score more goals? “That’s a good question,” Willman said. “If we increase the (offensive) zone time and possession time, you’d like to think things would start going in for us whether they’re dirty goals or shots from the point or just lucky bounces that start going our way. We’ve definitely had a lot of chances in these games to score and they just haven’t been going in. 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