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Senator John Thune joined 24 fellow Republicans yesterday to vote against S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act . The New York Times ma...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has 111 confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) permits pending . Over the next month, after the sta...

The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources may be about to put one man out of business... permanently. Richard Millner...

Turning to today's agriculture report, here's the news the ag-industrial complex doesn't like to talk about: Remember the salmon...

Quote of the weekend comes from Paul Volcker , chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former Fed Chairman. V...

I mentioned the EPA's new emissions regulation in a postscript yesterday . The new rule, revamped Bush-era rules strengthened and tweake...

Political discussion erupted last Friday at the South Dakota Magazine Editor's Notebook . Bernie Hunhoff mentioned "brouhaha" ...

Newly rechristened Great Plains Tar Sands Pipelines directs our attention to New York Times coverage on the Canadian tar sands and TransCa...

Troy Jones, Bill Fleming, and I are working on building some consensus toward serious, effective financial reform. The Senate Ag Committee ,...

In response to my Monday post on derivatives reform , Troy Jones appears to assert that unregulated derivatives are good for the economy, p...

With health insurance reform now in the win column, Congress and the President are turning to financial reform. There will be a lot of movi...

So what do the new credit card rules mean for me? I like to think of myself as a "good" credit cardholder. I've carried a bal...

So Bill Janklow, a Harvard prof, and the Madville Times walk into a bar.... The Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, which is headed for the P...

As you head for your Friday coffee break, here are a couple questions that might spark some conversation: 1. Which headline would you rather...

So if I'm reading House Bill 1094 correctly, is Senator Russell Olson (R-8) saying his pal Pat Powers needs to submit to a criminal bac...

Bush Favors Profit over Preventing Bioterror A little Friday dander-raiser and counterexample for my conservative readers: an article this m...

...and deregulation! I know, I know: China, India, SUVs. But tonight's Marketplace leads with this interview with former commodity reg...