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A letter to the editor from Sunday's Aberdeen American News:

Thune deserves better coverage

To the editor - I was wondering how the paper would cover the coal train project that Sen. John Thune had a hand in bringing about. It received wide coverage on the local TV stations on Nov. 5. Since it will bring economic advantages to the state, you would think that even the American News would consider it a worthwhile front page item but, then again, it is John Thune. Why do I think that if it had been Sen. Tim Johnson or Rep. Stephanie Herseth, it would have rated at least a picture of Sen. Thune with the article, not in Section B and with a byline by Scott Waltman, your resident Democrat cheerleader?

Continued bias on the part of the American News? I think so. The News did find room on the front page on Nov. 3 for a picture of Sen. Tom Daschle, a non-player on the national scene, along with a long rambling article, spewing the same left wing spin that we continually hear from the likes of Kennedy, Boxer, Durbin, Kerry, Clinton and Schumer.

I couldn't help noticing that Daschle has joined a liberal think-tank called the Center for American Progress. So, it's official now, he's been "outed," but something many of us have known for a long time.

Jim Fix

Aberdeen