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The South Dakota Constitution And Apportionment

How's that for a sexy title? Pat Powers takes Rep. Bill Thompson to task for submitting a bill (pdf alert) that requires South Dakota legislative districts be drawn by an independent commission rather than by the Legislature. Pat thinks this...

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

First let me do my best Jon Schaff imitation: headphones are no good for the young and the legislature should scrap all plans to distribute them to innocent school children. Gee, that did feel good! Anyway, I decided I wanted...

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw

USA Today reports that the collapse of the St. Anthony Bridge in Minneapolis resulted from a design flaw in the gusset plates, ending speculation that poor maintenance caused the deaths of thirteen people last August: Federal investigators have concluded that...

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

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...

Militants Overrun Pakistan Fort

Some bad news in Pakistan.

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

From the Argus Leader: The head of a group opposing the planned Hyperion oil refinery in Union County suggests it might really be a front for a series of landfills to bury trash from the East Coast - information that...

What's New with the Blogs

Clinton and centralized control

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Lionheart Drops the Mask

Bobby Fischer, RIP

Jerk update: Guilty troop-hating lawyer Jay Grodner to serve probation, donate to Semper Fi Fund

South Dakota Blogs

Taxpayer funded baby-sitting

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

New Blog Added

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

Snow in Baghdad

One brave woman

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

Should this bother us? RC Council votes to give Cabela's a carrot. A really, really expensive carrot.

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Heil MicroSSoft!

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

Dems Battle It Out Over Race

Progress in Iraq

Say one thing and vote another

Education is breaking the bank

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

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