This letter is from last week. If you missed it, you missed the best letter I’ve ever seen in the Argus Leader. Lucky for all us blogger types, we be safe.
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from Libby Tramell in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader Letters... From the Argus Leader this morning:
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is questioning the Internal Revenue Service’s unusual move to auction tribal land on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, saying she is concerned about the precedent it sets.
About 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles, of tribal land was auctioned by [...]
The Argus Leader steps up to the plate again today to shamelessly show it’s anti-Republican bias.
Today’s editorial regarded Governor Rounds appointing Kristin Conzet to the State legislature:
In appointing Kristin Conzet to fill an open seat in the South Dakota House of Representatives, Gov. Mike Rounds might well have selected an [...]
From the Argus Leader, more evidence that the demise of Big Stone II and particularly, the loss of the transmission capability it would have brought is holding back wind development in the region:
SummitWind project manager Jim Newcomb said the agency’s efforts are “a very good sign,” but wind producers are [...]
I realize that we live (here in South Dakota) in an economy which is heavily based on agriculture. Regardless, I expected better of the Argus Leader’s story on a poll about corn:
In the past two years, some trade associations have indicted ethanol made from corn, [...]
From the Argus Leader/Associated Press:
The Sioux Falls School Board has expelled a student for one year for bringing a weapon to school.
A school resource officer found a shotgun in the trunk of a car at Washington High School. The 17-year-old student said he forgot the gun in his car after [...]
Linda D. Schauer, the South Dakota state director of Concerned Women for America wrote the following which appeared in the Argus Leader today:
Either David Volk is ignorant of the stem cell issue, or he's trying to pull the wool over our eyes.Volk's clone-and-kill group, so-called South Dakotans for Lifesaving [...]
The Argus Leader reported today that Sen. John Thune supports President Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
What do you think? Is the troop surge the right call?
[...]As harassment and intimidation of pro-life donors takes off in other directions, the State of South Dakota announced this morning they will no longer continue the legal battle to make public the name of a large, in state, VoteYesForLife donor. From the Argus Leader…
South Dakota officials have reached [...]
From today’s argus leader, comes a tale of Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin besieged by her critics in the Republican party, and those in her own party:
The political world for South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin might be a lonely place these days.
For years, liberals have guarded her left flank while she [...]
This morning the Sioux Falls Argus Leader found yet another angle to hammer away at Sarah Palin. They had a reporter dial up the media in all the cities she's visited so far on her new book tour and found out she isn't taking local interviews.
In her [...]
This toon printed in the Argus Leader and took up about half of the 2nd page in the Voices section. At the time many readers were confused and thought this was the ‘original’ plaque. I still laugh about that.
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