washingtonpost.com - South DakotaSouth DakotaAfter Tumultuous Tenure, Daschle Departs- May 1, 2005 Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has little taste for political postmortems -- particularly his own -- as he prepares to depart from the Senate this week after a quarter-century in politics.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57921-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Some Troubled Firms Turned Into Top Performers in 2004- May 1, 2005 Flirting with bankruptcy is getting to be the most reliable way for Washington investors to pick a top-performing local stock.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43496-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/s... COAST TO COAST- May 1, 2005 Florida Revels in Report of Six-Foot Python in Toilet It has been a good long while since Dave Barry, esteemed chronicler of everything kooky, declared "a worldwide epidemic of snakes in toilets."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56600-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Returning to a Home on the Range- May 1, 2005 About 100 buffalo rounded up to make the return trip their ancestors never made -- to a Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota, in an arrangement designed to relieve the overstressed island and to replenish the thinning ranks of bison in their native Great Plains.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3225-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/s... Group to Coordinate Attack on Bush Plan- May 1, 2005 A nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million in an elaborate campaign to pressure lawmakers to vote against President Bush's proposal to create personal investment accounts for Social Security reform.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Frist Political Fund Can't Cover Bank Loan- May 1, 2005 A campaign fund controlled by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has lost almost $460,000 in stock market investments since 2000, according to federal election records and the manager of the Frist account.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26558-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/s... Balancing Nevada, National Interests- May 1, 2005 Sen. Harry M. Reid, at times, has had to balance his party's national political agenda against his state's more parochial economic interests.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52469-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... In Farewell, Daschle Emphasizes Cooperation- May 1, 2005 With few Republicans in attendance, the Senate minority leader bade an emotional farewell Friday, urging his colleagues of the past 18 years to find a new "common ground" for cooperation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63689-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... A Voice From Above, And to the Left- May 1, 2005 The most widely carried liberal on radio is a "prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative" who broadcasts from the unlikely locale of North Dakota.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61992-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/s... For Daschle, Democrats Are the Farewell Party- May 1, 2005 Everybody leaves the world's most exclusive club sometime, and last night the tribute at the National Building Museum was for a man who had left it most reluctantly -- Democrat Tom Daschle, tossed out of the Senate in November by the good people of South Dakota after an expensive and contentious race.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/s... |