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From Keloland: One of Aberdeen's oldest businesses is closing its doors. Jewett Drug was family owned for more than a hundred years. San Francisco-based McKesson bought it a year and a half ago and has decided to close it at...

Say one thing and vote another

That was what Senator Dave Knudson did yesterday. SB 59 was a request from the Board of Regents to increase the Opportunity Scholarship amount to $6,000. Knudson said this: Republican Sen. David Knudson of Sioux Falls said perhaps additional value...

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Maybe Mitt Romney needs to cry.

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Pat Powers has a post on a Gordon Howie proposal that would replace 35% of Property Taxes with an additional 2% Sales Tax. Excerpt: That seems to not be much more than a shift. So would his bill also shift...

New Efforts In Energy

This report from Scientific American touts the potential of switch grass as an energy source. Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with...

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

On this day of the New Hampshire primary The New Republic publishes a piece describing comments on race that appeared in various iterations of a newsletter put out under Ron Paul's name. Pajamas Media helpfully lists the most explosive quotations....

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

What's New with the Blogs

Social Services and Education are being hogs

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Ron Paul Supporter Kills Conscience to Survive

The case against John McCain, Part Two

Poll positions

South Dakota Blogs

Progress in Iraq

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Change is coming....

Romney promotes secular humanism

The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

B. Hussein Obama Update

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

Snow in Baghdad

One vote on deck for South Dakotans' view on immigration, Herseth Sandlin votes NO.

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

Government accounting fraud

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

Things are going well.....

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Clinton, Obama, 08

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