This morning's puzzler comes from Belle Fourche, where a fractured business community appears to be driving a wedge between the city council and the Chamber of Commerce. For 20 years, the Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce has managed the city's…
Posts tagged as “tourism”
Holy cow... er, trout! Contrary to my usual experiences in Spearfish, I stop in the Queen City of the Black Hills, and the first thing I hear about is a really stupid idea. It comes not from Spearfishers, but from…
Former Spearfish mayor Jerry Krambeck worries that we're going to love Lookout Mountain to death. With views like this, how couldn't we? Great galloping trail runners! Slap this photo on the Dakota Roots kiosk at the Mall of America, and…
Denver Post travel writer Kyle Wagner gave Spearfish the kind of write-up that wins Chamber of Commerce directors bonuses. Yet Chamber officials, glossy guidebooks, and fancy city signs and banners don't figure in her account of her wonderful long weekend…
In the "Your Tax Dollars at Work" department, KELO and the state of South Dakota make blogging easy: Oh look! Governor Daugaard has hired Mummenschanz! These four white horsemen of the Apocalypse will tour the Midwest on a bus chartered…
The Heidelbergers drove down the road and visited Mount Rushmore this fine sunny Sunday in the Black Hills: I'm up to a dozen Rushmore visits now. I have yet to tire of those great faces—the four in granite, and the…
Contrary to Senator John Thune's politically motivated claim that the decision to close Wind Cave National Park's campground is a politically motivated ploy to make the budget cuts imposed by the sequester he voted for more publicly visible, the National…
Some guy holding a beer on Deadwood Main Street looks at the first piffling snowflakes before the parade and says to me, "Huh. 45 degrees, and it's trying to snow." About five minutes later, the snow succeeds. So does Wyoming…