Jackson’s project is one of more than 100 funded through Healthy Start, which gave out $105 million nationally in grants this year. Officials call Healthy Start an essential part of the Biden administration’s
Co-owner Rocio Dominguez offers a treat to Tony, one of her regulars, at Chumbis, an artisanal bakery for animals, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Co-owner Rocio Dominguez offers a treat to Tony, one of her regulars, at Chumbis, an artisanal bakery for animals, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
“I see an opportunity for it to become the most pet-friendly city in the region,” Ferrario said.Other politicians fret about the proliferation of pet-keeping as a symptom of a bigger crisis. They ask why young people in Argentina choose raising pets over raising children as the country ages rapidly.“The rankings (of pet ownership) are unsettling. ... Buenos Aires has so many dogs and so few children,” said Clara Muzzio, the city’s conservative deputy mayor. “A world with fewer children is a worse world.”
Perhaps Argentina’s most prominent dog fanatic is its right-wing, who moved into the government house in December 2023 with four English mastiffs that he calls his “four-legged children.”
, Milei named Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas after the
he most admires — Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas. The dogs areTrzaskowski, 53, is Warsaw’s mayor and a close ally of Tusk. A deputy leader of Civic Platform, a pro-European Union party, he has been prominent in national politics for years. This is his second presidential bid after narrowly losing to Duda in 2020.
Supporters credit him with modernizing Warsaw through infrastructure, public transit expansion and. He is widely seen as pragmatic and focused on strengthening ties with other European nations.
Nawrocki recently receivedand other U.S. conservatives, who see the Polish election as part of a global battle between liberal and populist right-wing forces.