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The Great Modern Train Robbery: Thieves Steal $200 Million a Year

Railroads are fighting back with new tech, more help from the Feds and a bill in Congress to crack down. (Bloomberg)

How cyclospora evaded the US food safety system to sicken thousands

The Trump administration delayed a rule last year that could have sped up the effort to pinpoint the source of the contamination. Critics charge that food safety oversight has eroded overall. (New York Times/The Press Democrat)

‘You’re always right with wine’: Meet the woman behind 1 in every 4 bottles of Oregon wine sold in America.

Amy Prosenjak was running inventory for a billion-dollar furniture company in Ohio when she applied for a job as chief financial officer of A to Z Wineworks. One of A to Z’s founders, Bill Hatcher, who was CEO at the time, called to ask whether she understood cost accounting, and Prosenjak replied, “I’m the director of inventory for a $1 billion furniture company. That is my specialty.” “He said, ‘Well, I can teach you the wine business,'” Prosenjak said. “And he did.” (Fortune)