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Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke understands that we need to save the D.C Booth Fish Hatchery : “This is part of our culture,” Boke said. “My 10-...

Senator Tim Johnson was on SDPB Dakota Midday Tuesday insisting that he had no choice but to vote for the $858 billion Stimulus II that ...

Dr. Weiland gets me reading about the health insurance industry's huge donations to the Chamber of Commerce to fight health insurance ...

We find all sorts of verbal artistry on display in the South Dakota blogosphere this week. Exhibit #1: Doug Wiken discusses Senator Tim Joh...

As we wait to see if the Senate will act on Tim Johnson's really good grassland wilderness bill , it is worth noting that GOP House hope...

Since we're talking about tainted campaign contributions , let's look at polluted political money from Big Oil and Coal. An eager re...

Yesterday I mentioned Rebecca Terk's cogent explanation of how clear regulation of homemade food helps micro-business by making the mar...

Location of first national grassland wilderness (blue zones), proposed in Tony Dean Cheyenne River Valley Conservation Act of 2010. Click im...

State Bravely Accepts Heightened Military Risk for Filthy Federal Lucre South Dakota Republicans talk a good game on cutting federal spendin...

David Montgomery works late to give a good breakdown of where our Congressional delegation stands on allowing gays to serve in the United S...

Meanwhile, Senator Tim Johnson shows some Democratic leadership by standing up in the middle of red-state South Dakota and declaring health ...

Kudos to South Dakota's Senator Tim Johnson: he is among 31 senators so far [ Update! 34! ] who have said they want a public option in ...

Taxpayers for Common Sense has posted its Fiscal Year 2010 Earmark Database . South Dakota's take in earmarks, by my sorting of the spre...

President Obama criticizes the special-interest opposition to his plan to reform student loans and strengthen Pell grants ( HR 3221 , which...

The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy sponsors a little website called TheMiddleClass.org , where they try to put major legislation in...

My friend Jackie reminds me that Senator Johnson is spending the Congressional holiday recess touring the state to talk health care. She lis...

The cheese stands alone: Senator Tim Johnson is the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate to vote against the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights ...

South Dakota's Congressional delegation seems to be making some uncharacteristic incursions into state politics this week. In response t...

...and Joel who? Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic gets hold of an internal poll from Senator Tim Johnson's campaign (papers do just float ...

One more time, Barack Obama isn't coming for your guns . But even if he were, he'd have to answer to two of his biggest South Dakota...