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How America's Richest Female Farmer Became The Fourth-Richest Self-Made Woman In America
Lynda and Stewart Resnick arrive for a State Dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at the Booksellers Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 10, 2024. It's one of my favorite times of year, and no, I'm not talking about the start of strawberry season. This week Forbes unveiled its annual issue dedicated to America's Richest Self-Made Women. And it's a big one—the 10-year anniversary. It hits particularly home for me since this June also marks a full decade for me on Forbes' staff. A major milestone for a journalist! I've worked on the Self-Made list, as our newsroom calls it, since its inception, and over the years I have had a hand in celebrating listmakers from BET cofounder Sheila Johnson to United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt through the issues' pages. From the food world, this year's ranking features Lynda Resnick, America's richest female farmer, as No. 4. I've been writing about Resnick since my earliest days at Forbes and continue to find the vastness of her ventures through the Wonderful Company—from Fiji Water to Wonderful pistachios to seedless lemons and the country's largest bee colony—fascinating. The spread also features Panda Express cofounder Peggy Cherng as well as Merrilee Kick, the former public school teacher in Texas who landed a massive deal for her booze brand BuzzBallz last year when it was acquired by billionaire-owned spirits conglomerate Sazerac. Other names you might be excited to see in the issue include Selena Gomez, Sara Blakeley (of Spanx fame) and Serena Williams. It's an exceptional group of 100 entrepreneurs and industry game-changers. Enjoy perusing it all! — Chloe Sorvino This is Forbes' Fresh Take newsletter, which every Wednesday brings you the latest on the big ideas changing the future of food. Want to get it in your inbox every week? Sign up here. From left: Daniela Amodei, Selena Gomez, Gwynne Shotwell Bigger fortunes. More billionaires. Increasing impact. We mark the 10th anniversary of our annual list of America's most successful self-made women by celebrating how far these 100 entrepreneurs have come: There are 38 billionaires this year, with fortunes originating in everything from cars to cosmetics to chardonnay. ORLANDO KISSNER/AFP via Getty Images Big Ag Spying: Don't miss this Wired investigation about a powerful agricultural lobby that for years 'led a persistent and often covert campaign to surveil, discredit and suppress animal rights organizations,' and then hand-delivered the opposition research to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The network of informants relayed information to FBI agents within its department of Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate in an effort to convince the government that animal activists are 'the preeminent bioterrorism threat to the United States.' Chef Sean Sherman, owner and chef at Owamni prepares cricket to be served in his restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2023. Decolonizing The Food System: Chef Sean Sherman—who is behind the award-winning Minneapolis restaurant Owamni (where I had one of the most mind-blowing meals of my life, as previously covered in this newsletter) as well as his Native-owned pantry staples marketplace Indigenous Food Lab—is expanding his vision, Civil Eats reports. I got an early taste of some of his plans myself when I moderated a keynote fireside chat with Sherman at Expo West 2024 and I'm thrilled to see some concrete news that will bring that all to life. Along with a forthcoming second cookbook called Turtle Island, Sherman is opening his second outpost of Indigenous Food Lab later this year in Bozeman, Montana and is also starting a venture called Meals For Native Institutions, which will address the lack of culturally appropriate meals at institutions like schools, hospitals, prisons and community centers. Boxes of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers are stacked at a Costco Wholesale store on April 27, 2025 in San Diego, California. Cooking At Home Is Back: Or so Campbell's chief executive says. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the beleaguered soup company reported earnings this week that left its stock struggling. And while on first blush it may seem like Campbell's iconic soup cans might do well with more Americans tightening their budgets and less eating out, well, turns out, that's not the case for all its products. Cambell's snacking portfolio of brands like Cape Cod chips, Pepperidge Farms and Goldfish, for example, have not been performing as well as corporate leadership would like. The Price Of Milk The documentary series The Price of Milk, is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this Sunday, June 8, with an additional screening on Thursday, June 12. I'd love to see you there! (Full disclosure: I hear Sunday is down to standby-only tickets.) It's my Tribeca Film Festival debut and I'm excited to see this important topic brought to life! FRANCK FERVILLE/AGENCE VU/REDUX 1 It was fun to podcast about my recent article on Chobani and its billionaire founder Hamdi Ulukaya. Check out the full interview here. Chloe Sorvino Maybe the best strawberry shortcake I've ever tasted, after a luxuriously drawn-out lunch at the New York City outpost of Venice Beach-famed restaurant Gjelina. Thanks for reading the 145th edition of Forbes Fresh Take! Let me know what you think. 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Indiana State Senator's OWI charges delayed due to legislative immunity
State Sen. Mike Bohacek faces charges after allegedly stumbling out of his car after drinking alcohol inside his car at a Michigan City Panda Express in January, but the charges were only recently filed because of legislative immunity. The Indiana Constitution states that legislators are 'privileged from arrest' during the legislative session except for treason, felony or breach of the peace. The 2025 legislative session started Jan. 8 and ended April 24, and Bohacek was arrested Jan. 24. Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores, faces misdemeanor charges of operating while intoxicated and two additional misdemeanor OWI charges for a blood alcohol content above 0.15 and endangerment, according to the probable cause affidavit. Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann was appointed as the special prosecutor in the case. In an email Monday, Germann said the charges have not yet been approved by a judge, but that will likely occur in the next couple of days. He declined to comment further citing the pending litigation. A witness told police officers that Bohacek drank from 'an open container' and stumbled out of his vehicle at Panda Express in Michigan City around 3:30 p.m. Jan. 24, according to the affidavit. When officers arrived, they observed Bohacek with food on his clothes, poor balance and quiet, slow speech. Officers also reported that Bohacek had red, watery and bloodshot eyes and that he staggered from his black Dodge Charger, according to the affidavit. A blood test performed at about 4:30 p.m. Jan. 24 found that Bohacek's blood alcohol content was 0.283, according to the affidavit. Bohacek told police officers he took his prescription Tramadol before driving, according to the affidavit. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain, including pain after surgery, according to the Mayo Clinic. When reached by the Post-Tribune Tuesday, Bohacek expressed surprise that he could be charged months after the fact, but declined to comment further. State Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident in June 2023. Former State Rep. Daniel Forestal, D-Indianapolis, faced charges before his resignation in 2020 for drunken driving. He had also faced charges for battery of a public safety official, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct and accusations of using his political campaign's bank account for personal use, like online gambling, in separate events beginning in 2019. Forestal, who was open about his mental health struggles, died in 2021. Responding to a wellness check at an Indianapolis hotel, police found Forestal, 38, deceased. akukulka@
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Indiana State Senator's OWI charges delayed due to legislative immunity
State Sen. Mike Bohacek faces charges after allegedly stumbling out of his car after drinking alcohol inside his car at a Michigan City Panda Express in January, but the charges were only recently filed because of legislative immunity. The Indiana Constitution states that legislators are 'privileged from arrest' during the legislative session except for treason, felony or breach of the peace. The 2025 legislative session started Jan. 8 and ended April 24, and Bohacek was arrested Jan. 24. Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores, faces misdemeanor charges of operating while intoxicated and two additional misdemeanor OWI charges for a blood alcohol content above 0.15 and endangerment, according to the probable cause affidavit. Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann was appointed as the special prosecutor in the case. In an email Monday, Germann said the charges have not yet been approved by a judge, but that will likely occur in the next couple of days. He declined to comment further citing the pending litigation. A witness told police officers that Bohacek drank from 'an open container' and stumbled out of his vehicle at Panda Express in Michigan City around 3:30 p.m. Jan. 24, according to the affidavit. When officers arrived, they observed Bohacek with food on his clothes, poor balance and quiet, slow speech. Officers also reported that Bohacek had red, watery and bloodshot eyes and that he staggered from his black Dodge Charger, according to the affidavit. A blood test performed at about 4:30 p.m. Jan. 24 found that Bohacek's blood alcohol content was 0.283, according to the affidavit. Bohacek told police officers he took his prescription Tramadol before driving, according to the affidavit. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain, including pain after surgery, according to the Mayo Clinic. When reached by the Post-Tribune Tuesday, Bohacek expressed surprise that he could be charged months after the fact, but declined to comment further. State Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident in June 2023. Former State Rep. Daniel Forestal, D-Indianapolis, faced charges before his resignation in 2020 for drunken driving. He had also faced charges for battery of a public safety official, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct and accusations of using his political campaign's bank account for personal use, like online gambling, in separate events beginning in 2019. Forestal, who was open about his mental health struggles, died in 2021. Responding to a wellness check at an Indianapolis hotel, police found Forestal, 38, deceased.
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Indiana GOP Sen. Mike Bohacek charged with DUI months after incident
Sen. Mike Bohacek, right, talks to Sen Greg Walker, R-Columbus, on the Senate floor on Jan. 23, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Charges are pending against Republican Indiana Sen. Mike Bohacek for a January drunk driving incident that remained under wraps for months — shielded by legislative immunity during the 2025 session. Bohacek, of Michiana Shores, was stopped by police on Jan. 24 after a citizen reported him 'drinking an open container and stumble out of his vehicle' at a Panda Express in Michigan City, according to charging documents obtained by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. He was later pulled over near Swan Lake Cemetery on U.S. 20, where he refused a breathalyzer test. Police then took him to a hospital, where a blood test showed a blood alcohol content of 0.28% — more than three times Indiana's legal limit of 0.08%. But Bohacek wasn't arrested at the time. Under Indiana law, members of the General Assembly are shielded from arrest in most cases during the legislative session — a protection known as legislative immunity. That meant Bohacek's case was kept sealed and the senator remained uncharged for months. Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann, appointed as special prosecutor in the case, said the charges were filed shortly after his office was appointed in May but they weren't made public until Monday afternoon. Two other judges recused themselves and the current Special Judge is LaPorte Circuit Judge Julianne K. Havens. Bohacek did not respond to the Capital Chronicle's requests for comment. A Senate communications staffer also declined to comment, saying the incident 'falls into the 'personal matter' category.' Anonymous rumors about the incident circulated online after the January incident, but details were not publicly disclosed until Monday. Charging documents provided by Germann show that Bohacek was stopped by a Michigan City police officer just before 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 24, a Friday. The senator was allegedly speeding while driving a 2023 Dodge Charger bearing his Indiana legislative license plate. The officer at the scene claimed Bohacek's speech was quiet and slow; that his eyes were 'red, watery (and) bloodshot,' and that he had poor balance and staggered from his vehicle. Charging records additionally note that he was 'covered in food.' Panel advances 15-and-under social media ban Bohacek 'admitted to consuming his prescription medication Tramadol as prescribed prior to driving.' Tramadol is a prescription opioid pain medication used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain, often after surgery or for chronic conditions, according to the Mayo Clinic. After refusing a breathalyzer, the senator's blood was drawn at around 4:30 p.m. the same day at Northwest Health Hospital in LaPorte. Results of that test later indicated a blood alcohol content of 0.283%, and no drugs present, according to the charging paperwork. Bohacek was back taking votes in the Indiana Senate chamber the following Monday. Online court records show Bohacek had several prior traffic citations, including ignoring a stop sign; speeding; and driving the wrong direction on a one-way. Bohacek was first elected to the Indiana Senate in November 2016. He represents District 8, which includes Starke County, as well as portions of LaPorte, Marshall, and St. Joseph counties. He most recently served on the Corrections and Criminal Law, Health and Provider Services, and Local Government committees. Before joining the General Assembly, Bohacek served as a two-term LaPorte County Commissioner and was a member of the Michiana Shores Town Council. He additionally works as an enterprise consultant with Echo Global Logistics and owns MSL Services Inc., a company based in Michiana Shores, according to his legislative biography. A specific section in the Indiana Constitution states that lawmakers are immune from arrest during session in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace during the legislative session, as well as while traveling to and from the Indiana Statehouse. The most recent session started on Jan. 8 and adjourned on April 25. Bohacek's charges add to a series of other alcohol-related incidents involving separate Indiana lawmakers. CONTACT US In May 2023, Republican Rep. Jim Lucas was arrested after crashing his vehicle into a guardrail and driving the wrong way on an interstate entrance ramp. Lucas, of Seymour, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, both misdemeanors. He received a suspended sentence, was placed on probation, and was removed from interim legislative committee assignments. Lucas was reelected for a seventh term last November. Before that, Democratic Rep. Dan Forestal was arrested in 2019 for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, resisting law enforcement, and impersonating a public servant. Forestal, of Indianapolis, died in 2021 after his legislative tenure had ended. In 2009, former Democratic Rep. Dennie Oxley was arrested for misrepresenting himself as a state legislator to avoid arrest for public intoxication and was later convicted. Oxley claimed legislative immunity at the time of the incident, even though he was no longer an elected representative. And in 2002, Republican Sen. Johnny Nugent was arrested for DUI with a blood alcohol content of 0.13%. Voters repeatedly re-elected Nugent until he retired from the Indiana Senate in 2014. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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L.A. Affairs: I grew up on Disney princesses and fairy tales. Was I ready for my own happily ever after?
Marriage has been ingrained in me since I could form memories. That my purpose in life is to get married and have babies. I know this sounds old-fashioned and maybe that has something to do with the fact that I was born a girl in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, but I've spent my life toggling between the tradition of marriage and the liberal Los Angeles ideologies I internalized. I've often found myself wondering if it is even possible to be a good writer, an artist and be married. At 11 years old, I was a flower girl at my cousin's wedding in Calabasas. I remember walking down the aisle with a tiny basket of rose petals, a pair of adult-sized breasts and a petrified look on my face, unable to smile even though I was a generally happy kid. The horse and carriage, the vintage bridal kimono, the perky orchids, the flash, flash, flash of cameras, the expectations on everyone's faces, the stressful night's sleep no amount of Valerian root could remedy — I wasn't sure if all this was for me. But I loved love. I had grown up on an unhealthy dose of Disney princesses and fairy tales and the idea that one day my prince will come. I memorized the entirety of the film "The Notebook." I would often fantasize about lying on my deathbed with the love of my life, hand in hand, like Noah and Allie. Read more: L.A. Affairs: Oh, how my body wanted my pickleball partner! Then he opened his big mouth In my teens, I flirted for hours with strangers on AIM. I hooked up with boys in the landscaping at the Century City mall after sharing a bowl of orange chicken at Panda Express. I had boyfriends and friends with benefits and cutouts of my idols: Victoria's Secret models like Adriana Lima taped to the walls of my childhood bedroom. I was fully liberated by the over-sexualized, MTV-obsessed early aughts. Then I lost my virginity to my high school sweetheart who soon became my boyfriend of seven long years. In a conversation I don't remember having, my cousin asks me when I think I will be married. I reply matter-of-factly: "By 25." She then scoffs and laughs in my face. "Yeah, right.' By the time I reached my mid-20s, I had broken up with my high school sweetheart whom I had little in common with other than the fact that we were supposed to get married. I was living alone in a studio apartment in Palms, sleeping in the same room as my refrigerator. I had stacks of books near my bed, a county government temp job in a downtown L.A. skyscraper and a stream of notifications from a dating app lighting up my apartment at odd hours of the night. Read more: L.A. Affairs: Men who don't understand L.A. won't understand me. What's a city girl to do? Marriage was beginning to seem impractical, uncool. I was living a life my immigrant parents deemed 'acceptable,' but what I really wanted was to be a writer, although I was too scared to even utter the fact that I was an artist back then. I honed my craft and spent my nights in adult-education writing classes. Meanwhile, I dated plenty. A musician. A botanist. An artist. An art writer. I fawned over a co-worker, a photographer a decade older than me. Eventually I met someone my own age: a graphic designer from work who I ended up dating for 4 ½ years. A year into my relationship with the graphic designer, marriage began to follow us around like a hungry dog. I was a bridesmaid in two different weddings, one week apart. I wore a grass-green, floor-length dress. I wore a lace, Champagne-colored floor-length dress. I got my face airbrushed. My lips lined. My eyes powdered. My cheeks contoured. My hair sprayed. I looked like a Russian mail-order bride. I was a reverse mail-order bride, born in Belarus, now an American. Actually, no one had ordered me. I had never been so unlike myself. My graphic designer boyfriend noticed. His knees buckled as he watched me dance the hora and attempt to catch the bouquet again and again. What's funny is that my own parents didn't get married until their mid-30s. My dad was divorced, and my mom was an old maid by Belarusian standards. But I was raised on their love story: the couple of life-altering years in which they got married after three months of dating, had me and moved to the U.S. Read more: L.A. Affairs: Nothing scared me more than intimacy — except L.A. freeways. But I had to face them both The graphic designer and I broke up in 2020. I was a mess, but it was clearer than ever what I needed to do: stop trying to control everything and just let life happen. A few months later, a kind, gentle, handsome, funny, optimistic, wildly creative man replied to one of my prompts on Hinge, agreeing that mayonnaise was indeed disgusting. Tyler and I fell in love and dated for four years. Together we lived through family tragedies, the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, my grad school, his grad school, supporting each other's creative practices, quitting jobs, finding jobs, moving in together, adopting our sweet mutt Agnes. In the summer of 2024, he proposed at Crater Lake, surrounded by a swarm of dragonflies. At first, I felt weird talking to people about the engagement. Some of our friends were newly married, some were single by choice (or not), but most were in long-term monogamous relationships with no plans for marriage. I had never been happier, but I still housed the fear that getting married was too status quo, out of fashion, an uncool thing to do. My favorite writers certainly thought so with the most popular books that year being about divorce and self-actualization: "All Fours" by Miranda July, "Splinters" by Leslie Jamison and "Liars" by Sarah Manguso. The Paris Review once asked writer Helen Garner whether being a writer and marriage are generally compatible. She replied: 'They probably are, but it probably takes a lot of generosity and flexibility. If you're burdened by a classic idea of the artist as a figure to whom everything is owed and whose prerogatives are enormous and can never be challenged, forget it." In one of her more judgmental essays titled "Marrying Absurd,' Joan Didion chastises those who choose to get married in Las Vegas. She insists that they are doing it not out of convenience, but because of the fact that they don't know 'how to make the arrangements, how to do it 'right.'' How do you do it right, Joan? Read more: Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved Tyler and I got married in January (nine years after the age I insisted to my cousin I would get married) in Las Vegas, by an Elvis impersonator singing 'Can't Help Falling in Love' at the famous Little White Chapel with three dozen of our closest friends and relatives in attendance, two weeks after L.A.'s devastating wildfires, and the week of Trump's inauguration. While I had my hair and makeup done in front of the hotel window overlooking the faux Eiffel Tower, with the Bellagio fountain going off every 30 minutes, I was weepy. But not because of the usual suspects: cold feet or the last-minute cancellations or the eczema reappearing after years of dormancy on my arms or the lack of sleep, although I did forget to pack some Valerian root. At some point, I had convinced myself that getting married was uncool, not what an artist does, but here I was doing it. In fact, I was marrying the man who supported my creative pursuits the most. I had changed my mind about marriage yet again. It's a symbol of hope in a hopeless world, a sacred pact between two people, and it can be whatever the hell you want it to be. And yes, it might not work out, but also, it might. Maybe the question isn't: Does marriage make you less of an artist? Maybe the question is: Who gets to be an artist anyway? The author is a freelance writer from Los Angeles. She's on Instagram: @druzova_. L.A. Affairs chronicles the search for romantic love in all its glorious expressions in the L.A. area, and we want to hear your true story. We pay $400 for a published essay. Email LAAffairs@ You can find submission guidelines here. You can find past columns here. Sign up for The Wild newsletter to get weekly insider tips on the best of our beaches, trails, parks, deserts, forests and mountains. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
