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nounce and Warren has repeatedly said she's not interested in running in 2016.
• Warren has been flexing her fundraising prowess in the party by using her political action committee -- the PAC for a Level Playing Field. The leadership PAC has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars which she's used to support Democratic Senate candidates and party committees including the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
• Julian Zelizer, a political history professor at Princeton University, said Warren is crafting a national political profile while also testing whether a populist economic message can win broad support across the party.
• "Part of this is for her to build her stature, but she is also a believer," Zelizer said. "She could stumble but ... she's still new and she doesn't have the baggage of someone like a Hillary Clinton."
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The second annual Great Plains Native American art and culture festival will be held next weekend in downtown Rapid City.
• It will feature 39 established and emerging artists, including Don Montileaux, Angela Babby, Roger Broer, and last year's best of show winner, Denton Fast Whirlwind.
• The festival all day Saturday at Main Street Square.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture is encouraging farmers, ranchers and businesses to take advantage of the free pesticide container recycling collection starting Monday.
• Pesticides may be disposed of at a solid waste landfill or turned over for recycling. With either of these methods, containers must be triple or pressure rinsed to remove contaminants.
• The collections run through Sept. 10 in 37 locations around the state.
• Recycling is the preferred way of disposing pesticide containers because containers are removed from the solid waste stream and the discarded materials can be reused. Many solid waste facilities do not take pesticide containers because they do not have enough staff to ensure containers are properly prepared for disposal
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