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  Gulf dead zone fix falls flat 6

  Posted 1 month ago It's good to see a big Midwest "land grant" agricultural program that's concerned about the Gulf Dead Zone, and upper Midwest farms' large contribution to it.

• Southern boy don't need them around anyhow

  Are the South and the Midwest splitting on energy? 2

  Posted 4 months, 1 week ago

  What you see in the Waxman-Markey House vote is the beginning of a dynamic I expect to accelerate in coming years: the divergence of the South (specifically coal-mining Appalachia) and the Midwest on energy politics.

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  What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself? 1

  Posted 3 years ago

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