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Members of Congress call on American Crystal Sugar to resume negotiations

American Crystal Sugar in East Grand Forks, Minn. Photo: Wes Peck, Flickr
By Jon Collins | 11.03.11 | 12:11 pm

North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad said American Crystal Sugar “needs to think long and hard about the consequences of their strategy.”

I got your Prairie Home Cooperative right here

By Chris Steller | 08.19.09 | 12:41 pm

0873513770The New York Times riffs on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” today in the headline to Timothy Egan’s piece on how Western states have long embraced the concept of cooperatives — even health-care cooperatives. Egan didn’t mention…