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What does the Madville Times add to your day?

1. The Madville Times brought you the first solid numbers from the push-fishing poll against Mike Rounds conducted by Public Policy Polling last June.
2. I got past the rumors and brought you the documentary proof of Shantel Krebs's campaign to oust Secretary of State Jason Gant, a campaign that forced Gant to become the first South Dakota Secretary of State not to seek a second term.
3. Speaking of Gant, I wrote up Mayor Mike Huether's self-serving and cowardly dodge of joining in moral opposition to the SDPAA's voter-intimidation efforts against the successful Indian plaintiffs in Brooks v. Gant.
4. I'm the only blogger telling the story of the feds' threatened closure of the D.C. Booth Hatchery in Spearfish and helping you recognize which of your elected officials are speaking up in favor of this local gem and which aren't as helpful (remember next November!).
5. Speaking of Spearfish, I opened my liberal doors to conservative and 2008 GOP Senate candidate Sam Kephart a seven-part series giving his in-depth analysis of Republican politics in South Dakota.
6. For you local newsers, I posted the first press coverage of the anti-free-market Tax Increment Finance District #2 proposed in Madison.
7. Oh yeah, and by adding new contributing author Toby Uecker, I'm doubling the blog brainpower (maybe more than doubling, some would argue!).

And all that has been in just the last month. The Madville Times has been bringing you thoughtful, well-researched posts and speaking truth to the South Dakota powers for eight years. If you appreciate that quality, I invite you to click that tip jar.

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