A South Dakota Moderate

My little search engine project moved on to phase 2 today as I have added another 15 sites to the list that it now searches. Up until now it had been mostly news, television and blog sites, it now includes numerous government sites including the Treasurer, Auditor, DOT, SD Travel and the SD Unified Judicial [...]

It must be a very slow day as several of our righty bloggers have gone to great lengths to find a way to complain about our Democratic Congressional Representative. First PP over at the War College has to dig deep to criticize Stepahanie Herseth Sandlin on a couple votes regarding the slaughtering of wild free [...]

From KELO
South Dakota’s highway system has been ranked eleventh in the nation in a study from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
The study looks at condition of pavement and bridges, as well as maintenance and administrative costs.
Obviously they did not take into account chipped and broken windshields from the wonderful chip seal technique our DOT loves [...]

I thought I must have tuned into a bad epsiode of the “Twilight Zone” today as South Dakota’s Senate Delegation weighed in on the just defeated Immigration Bill. The bill which was being pushed by George Bush was soundly defeated 46-53 falling well short of the 60 needed for Cloture.
The immigration bill getting defeated isn’t [...]

In the latest Strategic Vision poll of likely caucus goers, John Edwards is still holding a 5 point lead over second place Barack Obama.
John Edwards 26%
Barack Obama 21%
Hillary Clinton 20%
Bill Richardson 11%
Joseph Biden 4%
Chris Dodd 2%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Undecided 15%
Haircut controversy and being in Ann Coulter’s bullseye aside, I would recommend that everyone check out his [...]

The next coolest thing in the gadget world makes it’s debut on Friday and if your itching to get one, good luck. Is it because the lines will be long and the quantities short? Nope, you will not see the iPhone in South Dakota because Apple has an exclusive deal with AT&T and even this [...]

Conservative “queen of the diarrhea mouth”, Ann Coulter, had a busy few days on the talk show circuit causing controversy in her seemingly never ending attempt to sell books this time by going after several Democrats running for the White House in 2008. First she appeared on “Good Morning America” and slammed John Edwards saying
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That’s surely not what those representing Trans-Canada’s proposed Keystone pipeline project wanted to hear but that is what South Dakota PUC Commissioner Gary Hanson stressed during a public meeting on the project in Yankton.
“A pipe like that, with the pressure and the product, given the right period of time, there will be a leak,” Hanson [...]

If you were wondering how our Congressional delegation has voted on a certain issue you can now start your search for that information right here. I have added the last 10 votes made by our delegation with links so that you can go back even farther. Of course in Tim Johnson’s case, he is at [...]

Anyone that has been following the progress of this blog for the year and a half it has been around might remember the blog RSS feed page I had that listed the latest posts from some of the various South Dakota blogs. Well now that I have pretty much chosen a final design and have [...]

The game between the Argus and Pierre continued this weekend over the difficulty in getting state employee salaries. All along the Argus has contended that the state should release the salaries and the state has countered with “give us a name and we will give you a salary”. On Friday, the Argus gave a name, [...]

The Argus has story this morning on Tim Johnson that highlights his fund raising efforts for a re-election run in 2008.
Johnson’s campaign raised more than $660,000 in the first quarter of 2007, leaving him with $1.2 million in the bank and putting his campaign on pace to match the amount he raised in the last [...]