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Technical Difficulties Make Aberdeen Newspaper Free Online Today!

Stop the presses! The press is stopped! Something mucked up the works at the Aberdeen American News this morning. AAN's press experienced a "mechanical problem" with several thousand papers yet to print. The Monday print edition thus won't hit the…

South Dakota Website on ACA Exchange Leaves Link to Enroll Broken

South Dakota state government doesn't like the Affordable Care Act. They say so right on the state's bare-bones health care reform website: ...South Dakota was a leader among states opposing PPACA, joining many other states in challenging the law in…

Anonymity Online: Government Less Worrisome Than Business and Family

Various Republican candidates build their campaigns around fear of government. But a new Pew Internet report on online security says we're more afraid of private profiteers and each other: “Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly…

Rounds Resistance to Social Media Has Harmful Policy Implications

Marion Michael Rounds's resistance to using social media reveals his haughty unwillingness to meet voters where they are. That's one good reason to vote for Rick Weiland or Stace Nelson instead of Rounds for U.S. Senate. Rounds's cluelessness about social…

Rounds Still Tech Dinosaur, Too Busy to Engage Voters Online

When he was Governor, Marion Michael Rounds didn't care much for e-mail and couldn't tell the difference between a PDF and a searchable database. Five years later, U.S. Senate candidate Rounds remains a technological dinosaur: Others, including Mike Rounds and…

RT: Twitter Predicts Elections!

The Washington Post reports that mentions on Twitter can predict election outcomes: That’s the takeaway at the core of a newly-released study conducted by four researchers at Indiana University. The paper stands in stark contrast to other research assessing the…

Exclusive: Madville Times Interviews U.S. Senate Candidate Rick Weiland

After a full day of barnstorming (caféstorming? piestorming?) eastern South Dakota, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Rick Weiland took time to talk to me about his campaign. Knowing we have a good year-plus campaign to talk about issues, I used…