The Rapid City Journal reports that, over the last decade, the number of self-identified same-sex couples increased 68% in South Dakota, from 826 in 2000 to 1390 in 2010. In Rapid City, same-sex couples raising their hands for the Census…
Posts published in August 2011
Heather Libby and Emma Pullman turn my list of TransCanada's first-year Keystone spills into a lovely poster: This graphic does not depict the 21 leaks Keystone I had on Canadian soil. Libby and Pullman do question how the U.S. State…
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…
Denise Ross posts Rep. Kristi Noem's asset disclosure and finds that our fiscally conservative Congresswoman is carrying over $20,000 in credit card debt. Uff da: I'll bet the Noem family is enjoying those nice consumer credit card protections the Democrats…
For this post, Dr. Blanchard will likely accuse me of opposing energy. I plead economics. Regular readers of the Madville Times know that the proposed Hyperion oil refinery in Union County is unlikely to materialize for lack of business case.…
There's more evidence that Rep. Kristi No-meeting's avoidance of the public this long August recess is part of a larger pattern of Republican behavior. House Republicans desperately want to avoid the negative media imagery of angry town hall crowds, whether…