Sure, the New York Times has come out in opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, but what do those guys know? They don't live here. Let's ask some Great Plains neighbors what they think of piping some…
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(I'm still working on uploading video from last night's candidates' forum to the Madville Times YouTube channel. I'll post, embed, and comment on those videos as soon as the whole collection is up!) I'd like to connect two seemingly disparate…
The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service has put out the Propsective Plantings report for 2011. Corn will be popping... if the fields ever dry out. The NASS predicts farmers nationally will increase corn acres 4.5%, wheat 8.2%, and cotton 15%.…
...and come to Howard! I spent my Friday energizing my brain at the OTA Sessions in Sioux Falls. It was a sprawling, multi-headed hydra of an event, with activities ranging from practical advice on social media and content generation to…
The Madison Central School District faces a $360,000 reduction in state aid in the coming fiscal year, thanks to Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator Russell Olson (who thought an even bigger cut would have been "a good idea"). If we…
In two press interviews within 24 hours, Congresswoman Kristi Noem (R-SD) was asked directly what specific programs she would cut to reduce the federal budget deficit. In both interviews, one with the Mitchell Daily Republic, and one with Fox News,…
Kristi Noem made her infacility with policy details clear to me at the State Fair debate last summer. Now Congresswoman Noem is making her talking-point emptiness clear to the press. Seth Tupper of the Mitchell Daily Republic raps Rep. Noem…