Here in South Dakota, we celebrate liberty this week by taking away more of women's liberty to make their own health decisions. Yesterday, we expanded our already draconian restrictions on abortion by excluding holidays and weekends from the 72-hour waiting…
Posts tagged as “science”
School and Public Lands Commissioner Jarrod Johnson recognizes how the federal crop insurance program (which crop insurance salesman's wife Kristi Noem wants to expand) causes farmers to plow up land that's better for other uses than crops. Now South Dakota…
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…
Gordon Howie's Christian conservative blog machine declares soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder welfare queens. Howie provocateur Brad Ford tells vets that PTSD is just "combat cowardice." Man up, says the Howie blog, and go back to the good old days…
As LK has warned us, if South Dakota gets into the fracking sand business, we may be complicit in sending California into the ocean... or maybe Oklahoma: Scientists have linked Oklahoma’s biggest recorded earthquake to the disposal of wastewater from…
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).…
One of the key planks of Governor Dennis Daugaard's failed education reform package this year was a push for more science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates. But do we really need more students going into math and science? New…