Bridal Veil Falls and Spearfish Creek look mighty impressive, but the past few days' rains have wrought a little havoc here in the Northern Black Hills: Spearfish Creek peaked at a flow of 690 cubic feet per second yesterday around…
Posts tagged as “Homestake Lab”
One place where South Dakota keeps beating Minnesota is the Homestake Sanford Lab. In 2007, the National Science Foundation picked the old gold mine at Lead over the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is building back his spending on state employees faster than he is repairing the fiscal damage he's done to our K-12 system (though his Administration will argue the growth of state government jobs isn't out of line).…
The District 33 Senate race pits Republican Rep. Phil Jensen against Independent Matt McGrath. Both men have brave mustaches. That makes this race a hard choice. But if neither man can win by a whisker, maybe one can win by…
Morlocks of the world, unite... in Lead! The effort to convert the old Homestake mine into a bustling underground science laboratory has been left in limbo by the National Science Foundation's withdrawal of funding. NSF may have backed away from…
Dr. Newquist provides a thorough account of the National Science Foundation's withdrawal of funding from the science lab South Dakota is trying to develop in the old Homestake Mine in Lead. The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory may not…
The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at the old Homestake mine in Lead is a big deal to at least some of my neighbors here in Spearfish. The big science project offers some really well-paying jobs as well as…
Still no really juicy stuff in the Legislative hopper. A few of the new bills that have popped up in the last 24 hours: Senate Bill 17 would take property leased by the Science and Technology Authority for certain purposes…