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South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
By John Andrews Chances are Lloyd Cunningham has photographed you, or someone you know, in his nearly 40 years as a staff photographer at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. This week, our dean of photojournalists is retiring. We featured Cunningham in our September/October 2009 issue. We asked the obligatory “favorite photos” question that all writers must ask [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
By John Andrews It had to happen sooner or later. With all the snow and cold we’ve received, people are starting to compare the winter of 2009-10 to the doozy of 1996-97. I get little sympathy around here when I talk about the winter of 1996-97. It’s clearly the worst winter I can remember. I recall snow [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
By John Andrews We know that our larger towns like Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Huron have symphony orchestras, but we never thought about what their violin players do when their bows get shoddy. Turns out they probably seek the guidance of two experts in tiny Fulton. Sisters Mary Wipf and Liz Soladay operate Con Brio Studio, [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
By John Andrews Sad news from this week’s Hamlin County Herald Enterprise. The annual St. Urho’s Day celebration, a tradition for decades in Lake Norden, is cancelled. Organizers cite “uncontrollable circumstances,” which might mean that the town’s Norwegians have finally established dominance and put an end to the silly celebration. All kidding aside, St....
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
By John Andrews 2009 was a rough year for South Dakota beekeepers. Numbers released by the Department of Agriculture’s Statistics Service show honey production in South Dakota in 2009 was down 17 percent to 17.8 million pounds. Still, that makes us the second highest honey-making state behind North Dakota (34.7 million pounds). The honey business, like most agricultural [...]
7strategy Web Design Company (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
I was reading a blog post from John Andrews about a test that Google is running in the Nordic regions, and the news was a bit shocking...at least, initially. If you're in the region, and have a Google Webmaster Tools...
Blog for Peace and Freedom (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Introductory remarks (excerpt) from John Andrews On behalf of the ISSE, SEP and World Socialist Web Site. The coordinated March 4 demonstrations throughout the United States marked a new stage in the re-emergence of class struggle in America. Thousands of students joined with their teachers and other workers in spirited demonstrations against state and local [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
By John Andrews Did you know that sculptor Gutzon Borglum’s eccentric social attitudes once drew the ire of Adolf Hitler? We didn’t either, until we read a column from the Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News that a reader recently sent to us. Much of the column was about Borglum’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan. He supposedly joined [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/04/2010
By John Andrews History buffs in Minnehaha County will want to attend this month’s meeting at the Old Courthouse Museum March 18 at 7 p.m. Emma Abbott, a recent graduate of Augustana College, will talk about John Dillinger and his brazen robbery of the Security National Bank on March 6, 1934. We wrote about the robbery in [...]
FreeColorado.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2010
I applaud John Andrews and Citizens for Responsible Aurora Government for opposing "tax increment financing" (TIF) for the development of ranchland in that area. (Westminster might be looking at a similar mechanism to fund the now-"blighted" Westminster Mall; I'm not sure where that project has headed.) However, I caution free market advocates to carefully distinguish...
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
By John Andrews From 1880 to the 1930s, you could find corn and grain palaces in 24 towns in eight cities across the Midwest. We know this because today we received a book by Rod Evans entitled Palaces of the Prairie. Evans, a scholar and playwright living in Aberdeen, researched and wrote about every one of [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
By John Andrews We’re finishing up a story on South Dakota filmmakers for our May/June issue. During the course of research we discovered that Chad Coppess, a photographer for the state’s tourism department and a frequent contributor to the magazine, is a film buff, especially when it comes to films produced in South Dakota. He also [...]
South Dakota Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
By John Andrews Is there anything South Dakotans won’t race? We do all the mainstream stuff, like cars and horses. But people in Chamberlain race lawnmowers, and the residents of Volin race turtles. This weekend, the good citizens of Nemo will race outhouses. Competitors build their own privy, mount it on something that will traverse snowpack well [...]
johnon.com (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
See Google’s announcement that Google AdManager customers will be migrated over to a new DoubleClick for Small Business version of the new Double Click for Publishers by Google system. Post from: johnon.com by John Andrews. Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP by Google)
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 02/15/2010
... That's the word from today's lengthy infomercial feature story on the efforts of Jon Caldara , John Andrews and some new face they've put up for the latest iteration of their perennial quest against the state judicial branch. If you read this story uncritically, you might actually get the idea that there's a hope in hell of this newest anti-judge campaign being successful. But that's...
