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Karl Garson: A long road with risk and good fortune
Karl Garson: A long road with risk and good fortune
West, past Spearfish, S.D., exit 10 off Interstate 90 and a short drive north to Belle Fourche leads to Highway 212.Turn right there for Minneapolis.Turn left for Crow Agency, then Billings, then Red Lodge, Mont., and Yellowstone.The choice is obvious.The 200 miles of 212 between Belle Fourc…

Scott Milfred

Scott Milfred: Her job, not gender, sunk Lawton's bid for governor
Scott Milfred: Her job, not gender, sunk Lawton's bid for governor
She filled a post with little power or profile for seven years.She never won a general election at any level on her own.And her signature issue became tax breaks for the movie business -- something her own governor vetoed to shreds.So it's not surprising that Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton's campai…

Phil Hands

Hands on Wisconsin: A Bushy Barrett
Hands on Wisconsin: A Bushy Barrett
It's a cartoon like this that makes me wish I was an artistic virtuoso.  Granted, I'm good at drawing, but I don't have the uncanny ability to nail down a fast and brilliant caricature the way some cartoonist do.  (Nate Beeler, whose syndicated cartoons often appear in the Wisconsin State …

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