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Reporters Notebook: Election signs being recycled in Warner
Election signs recycled Some residents in Warner have found new uses for their election yard signs, according to one emailer. She says that folks in the town about 10 miles south of Aberdeen are altering and recycling the signs to wish the Warner...Tags: Voting, Elections, Local Elections, Polls, Politics
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WEB Water - 30 years and still flowing
Thirty years ago on Oct. 28, dignitaries gathered in Selby to launch the largest rural water project in the nation and the first one funded primarily with federal funds. A young congressman named Tom Daschle was there at the ground-breaking ceremony, as...Tags: Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Ethanol, Environmental Issues
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Herseth Sandlin, Noem not only women in S.D. politics
South Dakota is a state where a woman was elected only once to Congress in the first 112 years of statehood and where a woman has never been elected governor. But a woman has now won the statewide seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in five...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Government, Political Candidates, Libertarian Party, Executive Branch
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WEB Water -- 30 years and still flowing
jnatalie-lees@aberdeennews.comThirty years ago today, dignitaries gathered in Selby to launch the largest rural water project in the nation and the first one funded primarily with federal funds. A young congressman named Tom Daschle was there at the ground-breaking ceremony, as were...Tags: Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Ethanol, Environmental Issues
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Uphill battle ahead in U.S. House race
American News CorrespondentDuring the past half-century something mildly odd has taken hold in South Dakota’s statewide elections. Losers almost always refuse to run again against the candidates who beat them, no matter if the margin of defeat was relatively small, not even...Tags: Government, Tim Johnson, Barack Obama, Travel, Republican Party
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Goodbye, McGovern
Associated PressGeorge McGovern made history with his loss of the 1972 presidential election in a historic landslide, but he was praised Friday for galvanizing the Democratic party’s liberal wing and inspiring a new generation to take up his causes. At his...Tags: John Thune, John F. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Human Interest, John Kerry
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Politicians turn out to bid farewell to former senator
The Daily Republic, MitchellThere was a plethora of big-name politicians at the Thursday prayer service and Friday funeral for George McGovern. Several prominent Democrats were in the audience Thursday: Vice President Joe Biden; Sen. Tim Johnson, who spoke of his friendship with...Tags: Joe Biden, Democratic Party, Jim McGovern, Animals, Parties and Movements
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Notebook: How has SD fared under Obama?
Based on historical trends and recent polling, there seems little chance that a majority of South Dakota voters will mark their ballots this year for the re-election of President Barack Obama. The deeper question is how South Dakota has fared during the...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Government, Ronald Reagan, Political Candidates, George W. Bush
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McGovern didn't let 1972 presidential loss define him
swaltman@aberdeennews.comA history of good works and a war philosophy ultimately proven wise, not a lopsided presidential defeat, are what George McGovern will be remembered for, his friends and supporters in northeast South Dakota say. McGovern's reputation, once tarnished by...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Government, Tim Johnson, Wars and Interventions, Executive Branch
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Prof. Schwarzenegger gives a lecture on post-partisanship
Charisma counts. Former President Clinton proved it at the Democratic National Convention, and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proved it Monday at USC. He received a standing ovation as he stepped onto the stage in an auditorium on campus for the start...
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Government, Teachers, John McCain, James Cameron
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Centre readies for nation's only vice-presidential debate
dbrock@amnews.comAfter the ceremonial start over the weekend to Centre College’s school year, the curtain will fall on activities in Newlin Hall at the Norton Center for the Arts until the Oct. 11 vice-presidential debate. Following a packed house for Saturday&...Tags: Huey Lewis and the News (music group), Television Networks, Wayne King
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Thune unlikely for VP selection
There has been some speculation lately as to whether Mitt Romney will select John Thune as his running mate for this fall's presidential election. I have had three media outlets contact me for comment. The first rule of vice presidential selection is...Tags: John Thune, Kelly Ayotte, YouTube, Government, U.S. Senate
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