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The End of the Madville Times

*****This is the last post on the Madville Times, because... I am now blogging at Dakota Free Press. I invite you to update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook follows, and subscriptions accordingly.

Green Aberdeen Promotes Sustainability… and United Nations?

I might find South Dakota's religious right wing more tolerable if they'd stop bullying our LGBT neighbors and kids and get back to saying crazy stuff about sustainability and Agenda 21. Here, wingnut friends, look at the Green Aberdeen project…

Senate Afraid to Study Actual-Use Ag Land Assessment

When I visited Charlie Hoffman last August, the outgoing state representative and passionate prairie grasser said that the current agricultural land tax formula discourages grassland restoration and preservation and drives turning prairie grassland to row crops. Hoffman suggested our property…

Rep. Bolin: State Insurance Company Not a Budget Priority

Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) took the House floor last Tuesday and argued against the proposal from "our fine Governor" to create captive insurance companies—i.e., state-run, state-funded pools to insure a variety of state facilities. House Bills 1185, 1186, and 1187…

LNI Boycott Viable Response to Rapid City Racism?

Mr. Kurtz alerts us that our Lakota people may translate their dissatisfaction over Rapid City's response to an alleged racist attack on 57 American Horse School kids at a Rush hockey game in January into boycotts. An anonymous source tells…