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United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

From Keloland: The Sioux Empire United Way set the bar high with an $8.6 million goal for 2008. The organization did better than that, surpassing $9 million. Campaign Chair Ray Trankle says it can only mean good things for the...

Jewett Drug closing

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...

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

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...

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

In the past few days we have seen the Financial Times and Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post arguing that unless the United States makes significant reforms to entitlement programs it faces economically devastating deficits. The amount of money spent...

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

The results last night in Michigan, a Romeny win over McCain and a Clinton victory over no one, mean this: almost nothing. On the GOP side it means Romney is not dropping out, but other than that the candidates continue...

Abortions Down 25%

Today's LA Times reports on a study concluding that fewer women are choosing abortions, and those that do are increasingly turning to morning-after medication to accomplish it. The rate of all abortions continues to decline, reaching its lowest level since...

Glowbull Warming Notes

THere’s been more and more coming out…from the scientific world…in the nature of inconvenient truths that, contrary to AlGor et al, climate is being driven by the sun…and, global temperature seems to have peaked in 1998! SOMEBODY…ANYBODY… PLEASE HIT ALGORE WITH A CLUEBAT & SHUT HIM UP! Firstly, from the Boston Globe (not exactly a bastion [...]

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

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Social Services and Education are being hogs

Beltway Insight From David Broder

Snow in Baghdad

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

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

The Ides of Michigan

The Villany You Teach Me, I Will Execute

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Change is coming....

Say one thing and vote another

SB 67 UPDATE

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

Much ado... Much ado...

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Dems Battle It Out Over Race

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

American Blogs