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WOSTER: Oahe flood anniversary marks time for reflection

WOSTER: Oahe flood anniversary marks time for reflection A year ago today, I was moving through a routine afternoon’s work when the director of the state Office of Emergency Management stopped by my pod to ask if I’d have time the next morning to attend a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a bunch of state and local representatives.

May 23, 2012

AMY KIRK: Husband, son audible lacked follow-through communication

AMY KIRK: Husband, son audible lacked follow-through communication I’ve heard a lot of excuses, and rarely have any of them not pertained to cows, so recently hearing an excuse referencing football plays was a real curveball to my argument when my husband and son didn’t get home at our agreed-upon time.

By Amy Kirk , May 21, 2012

WOSTER: Abdnor learned lesson from 1970 defeat — and he never forgot it

WOSTER: Abdnor learned lesson from 1970 defeat — and he never forgot it The first time I talked with Abdnor, after he lost the Republican primary for the Second District congressional seat in June 1970, was about the only time I ever saw the man actually down.

May 19, 2012

MILBANK: Americans Elect unwittingly proves political system is too broken to fix

MILBANK: Americans Elect unwittingly proves political system is too broken to fix Faced with this twin disappointment — desirable candidates being uninterested and interested candidates being undesirable — Americans Elect has announced that it is abandoning its online nominating process because no candidate had reached its minimum threshold. This is profoundly depressing.

By Dana Milbank , May 17, 2012

WOSTER: Social media confounds old guy PressPass

WOSTER: Social media confounds old guy I used to open my bedroom window on mild evenings, crawl out onto the slanted roof that covered the west porch and lie on my back, watching the stars and listening to ballads and really early rock and roll over KOMA radio from Oklahoma City. I don’t know that it was a better time.

May 16, 2012

GRAVES: Home school works well for some students PressPass

GRAVES: Home school works well for some students Requirements for parents to home school their children are very minimal, the ability of school boards to revoke permission to home school are very limited, and the quality of home school instruction and resulting student achievement are essentially unknown and even unknowable.

By Joe Graves , May 15, 2012

AMY KIRK: Traumatic toilet de-clogging likely to haunt children PressPass

AMY KIRK: Traumatic toilet de-clogging likely to haunt children When we remodeled our kitchen in 2003, it was like a typical kitchen remodeling project: since we were updating insulation, drywall, lighting, windows, flooring and cabinets, it only seemed logical to replace the toilet at the same time.

By Amy Kirk , May 13, 2012

O'REILLY: Beach Boys still making waves PressPass

O'REILLY: Beach Boys still making waves Quick question: What is the most enduring American pop group of all time? It has to be the Beach Boys, right? They are currently on their 50th anniversary tour across the country, if you can believe it.

By Bill O'Reilly , May 13, 2012

MERCER: Abdnor a politican who toppled giants PressPass

MERCER: Abdnor a politican who toppled giants Why hasn’t Jim Abdnor received the respect he would seem to have deserved? He was only the biggest political giant killer during the past half-century.

By Bob Mercer , May 13, 2012

WOSTER: When it comes to moms, life can be better than art PressPass

WOSTER: When it comes to moms, life can be better than art Margaret Anderson played a mean mom (and I mean that in a good way here), for sure. But so did Donna Stone. That was the name of the character played by Donna Reed, the mother on “The Donna Reed Show,” also a popular offering when I was young. Mother Stone wore what seemed to be a string of pearls everywhere, and her aprons set off the gleaming pearls nicely. For my money, Harriet Nelson was the all-time greatest television mom.

May 12, 2012

TUPPER: Shift development focus more toward local firms PressPass

TUPPER: Shift development focus more toward local firms Though Verifications and Dakota Pork seem about as different as two companies can be on the surface, they had at least one underlying trait in common: Neither company’s leaders had any real tie to Mitchell other than a bundle of incentives.

By Seth Tupper , May 11, 2012

GUEBERT: Sugar water or Kool-Aid? Farm bill is empty spending PressPass

GUEBERT: Sugar water or Kool-Aid? Farm bill is empty spending Cutting agricultural research programs and chopping Rural Development is neither wise nor brave.

By Alan Guebert , May 10, 2012

GIAGO: Beware of the coming oil boom PressPass

GIAGO: Beware of the coming oil boom The oil boom is coming to South Dakota, “not if, but when,” according to those in the know, including Gov. Dennis Daugaard.

By Tim Giago , May 10, 2012

WOSTER: A grandchild can bring out the kid in everyone PressPass

WOSTER: A grandchild can bring out the kid in everyone In all this wide world, not more than five people exist who could talk me into crawling under the storage racks and behind the big boxes of ceiling fans at a Lowe’s store to play fort.

May 09, 2012

THOMAS: PBS show is modern version of ‘This is Your Life’ PressPass

THOMAS: PBS show is modern version of ‘This is Your Life’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is another of the Harvard professor’s wonderful television series for PBS. This is “must-see TV” and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted about how some of us came to be what and who we are.

By Cal Thomas , May 08, 2012

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