Education is one of the wisest investments we can make in America's future. The aid elimination provision is unfair and heavy-handed and should be taken off the books completely.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it

(Nelson) keeps saying things are required by HAVA that are not.

South Dakota should focus its efforts on ensuring that women have access to the full range of reproductive health services, including contraception and medically accurate sexuality education, instead of banning abortion. We would do well to focus our efforts on prevention instead of passing laws that not only threaten women's health and lives but are also blatantly unconstitutional.

The treatment received by Native American students in Winner and throughout the region is completely different than that of their white counterparts. These experiences demonstrate the reasons why Native American children so often fail to reach graduation -- hostility of peers, discrimination of school officials and knee-jerk police involvement.

(Native Americans) are disproportionately the new registrations.