A fellow South Dakotan remembers his friend and mentor, who died on Sunday at age 90.
Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle was elected to Congress from South Dakota in 1978. As a U.S. senator from 1987 to 2005, he became one of the longest-serving Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate in history.
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Follow the Farmers
Twenty years ago, on a farm outside my hometown of Aberdeen, South Dakota, I stood with a few dozen local corn growers in a machine shack, huddled around a still. We were trying to show the farmers that their crops could be turned into what we then called gasohol — a liquid fuel that could […]
