The Madville Times made the Alexandria Herald two weeks in a row. My coverage of the state Water Management Board's approval of wells for a proposed 7000-head dairy in Hanson County was of sufficient interest to locals that the Herald…
Posts published in August 2011
Here's a handful of happy recognitions: Nathan Johnson has some of America's best pizza in his neighborhood. Food Network Magazine deems the the spicy meatball and sauerkraut pizza at Charlie's Pizza the best pizza in South Dakota. (See photo #41…
Eager reader Rod Goeman scooped everyone with this first report on the failure of Madison's proposed tree-trimmer licensing ordinance: The First Reading on the tree trimmer ordinance failed due to lack of a second. Commissioner Nick Abraham brought the ordinance…
The Brookings City Council is holding a special meeting Wednesday (tomorrow!) at 1 p.m. The only item on the agenda: "Discussion on full and restaurant liquor license fees." Brookings councilors issued two of three available liquor licenses last week to…
South Dakota's Congressional delegation has a penchant for fighting rules that don't exist and may never exist. A couple years ago, Senator John Thune raised a stink over regulations on livestock methane emission, regulations that the EPA never proposed. Congresswoman…
During the 2010 campaign, Kristi Noem squared her soapbox scorn for the 2009 federal stimulus with her eager votes to save South Dakota's budget with the stimulus by saying that if she and her Legislative colleagues hadn't voted to take…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem hasn't posted a new public event on her official web page since May 20. But when she gets done voting the way Speaker Boehner tells her today, perhaps South Dakota's lone Congresswoman will have some time to…
If you thought the Lake Area Improvement Corporation's claim to have created 500 "potential" jobs was funny, put down your milk and read this: LAIC exec Dwaine Chapel provided the Lake County Commission with a letter dated June 12, 2011,…