Flooding is making travel difficult in southeast South Dakota. Secretary of Transportation Darin Bergquist says an "astronomical" number of roads have been closed.
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South Dakota is looking for gas station owners who want to install ethanol blender pumps, with $1 million in federal stimulus money to help prime the pump.
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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By Alan Fram and David Espo, The Associated Press, The Tennessean (Nashville)
WASHINGTON -- Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and North Dakota. Democrats unveiling revisions Thursday to their health-care overhaul bill decided to kill the extra $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska that has become a symbol of backdoor deal making. But the 153 pages of changes to the package include an additional $99 million in 2012 and 2013 for Tennessee hospitals that treat many poor people.
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Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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Republican attorney general candidate John Eastman has picked his job description to show voters on the June ballot -- assistant attorney general. Pretty good modifier for someone seeking the top job. What Eastman isn't telling voters is that he is officially an assistant attorney general in South Dakota.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Gov. Michael Rounds (R) Elected: November 2002, 2006 Term expires: January 2011
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