Madville Times

Last week I noted the difference in fiscal politics between Minnesota and South Dakota. That essay arose from a conversation with my neighb...

The Bernie Madoff of dairy feedlots, serial polluter Rick Millner, is having a very bad week. Millner's Veblen, South Dakota-based dair...

South Dakota faces a projected budget deficit of $74.8 million, about 6% of our projected FY2010 general fund expenditures. But asking South...

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

Rep. Gerald Lange (D-8/Madison) has consistently advocated measures like repealing the sales tax on food and extending the bank and insuran...

Permit me to update what I just published about the court records of our District 8 Senate candidates . District 8 Senate Candidate Clark C....

I still have one or two posts in the chute on last week's candidates forum here in District 8. I want very much to talk about the polic...

Evidently Clark Schmidtke Sr., Indy/Dem candidate for District 8 State Senate, has aroused the worries of the Republican machine. When a cha...

Then again .... Here's a spectacular statistic: for the current election cycle, 77.1% of federal campaign contributions to South Dakota...

Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer is fanning those good old Perpich-Janklow flames with billboards warning Ole and Lena about the...

A lesson in not tooting the horn too soon: Over the July 4th weekend, Mayor Mike Huether teased readers of that Sioux Falls paper by mention...

Bloomberg Businessweek has released an analysis of the financial return on investment at over 500 American colleges and universities. Their...

So I'm reading through a nice little article in the Aberdeen American News about the continued growth of wind farms in South Dakota. 4...

Rebecca Blood turns my attention to Lexicalist.com , which analyzes online text and demographics to figure out who's talking about what...

Just one minute ago, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency unanimously affirmed these findings of fact and upheld the denial of permit to ...

MN Pollution Agency Documents Violations at Six Millner Feedlots More for the Rick Millner-rotten neighbor file: Thief River Falls residents...

Reading (and questioning ) the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council's report on which states best conform to its ideological w...

I've been so busy focusing on wind power (you're thinking, what do you expect from a windy guy like Cory? ) that I've ignored an...

I've previously reported that Millner's Thief River Falls operation has continued to violate state air quality standards and the c...

...he'll keep crapping all over you. Last January the State of Minnesota shut down the Thief River Falls Excel Dairy, owned by Veblen, S...