This essay from Mary Pipher about the loneliness of being a progressive in Nebraska could just as easily have been written by Democrats in South Dakota. Pipher speaks of loving the geography and a heartfelt loyalty to a place that…
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Jonathan Ellis shines a harsh light on the culture of secrecy with which state medical boards and hospitals shield doctors from facing the consequences of their malpractice. Focusing on the "trail of pain" left by surgeon Allen Sossan, Ellis shows…
State Senator Dan Lederman got his friends Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem to join him in his hyperbolic, government- and environment-loathing lie that the perfectly sensible Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation area plan is a dangerous federal…
Rep. Kristi Noem has signed on with Republican colleagues in Nebraska to gripe and moan about the Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs Conservation Area. Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska griped back in June that his constituents hadn't had enough time…
Boyd County (Nebraska)'s resolution of opposition to the Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan and to government land ownership and conservation in general declares this public goal: ...to discourage land use development or use that will lower or impair the value of the…
Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) continues to peddle his malarkey about the pretty cool and totally voluntary Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan being a "federal land grab." In his latest propaganda, Senator Lederman posts a resolution from the clearly misguided Boyd County…
Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) is hollering about outsiders taking away South Dakotans' and Nebraskans' property rights. No, he's not finally getting his property-rights ducks in a row and protesting TransCanada's use of eminent domain to seize land for its…
Regular readers know I don't go for conspiracy theories. But give me three instances of the powers that be portraying anti-Keystone XL activists as terrorists, and I can't help thinking we face an orchestrated corporate PR campaign. First public officials…