Canadian uranium digger Powertech isn't looking too rosy for investors. After several months in which its stock price has tumbled nearly 80%, Powertech apparently can't even afford to continue leasing an old house in Wellington, Colorado, as a local office.…
Posts published in August 2011
Despite the fact that we aren't paying back rent to the neighbors from whom we stole this land, the Madville Times family is really enjoying its new digs in Spearfish. On Sunday, I went for not one but two trips…
I've been reading the Department of State's Final Environmental Impact Statement on TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Numerous commentators are focusing their criticism on the FEIS's environmental analysis. I want to take a look at the section on socioeconomic impacts.…
The State Department has issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Canadian oil giant TransCanada wants to build across the western half of South Dakota to ship up to 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil…
Funny how this works: yesterday I mentioned my debut column on the South Dakota Magazine website. Then this morning I find another Black Hills denizen with Lake County connections writing on the same Web pages. Pat Boyd, once from Chicago,…
Senator Tim Johnson takes a little heat from the Aberdeen American News for telling the press not to publicize his visit to Aberdeen yesterday. I agree: Tim, you don't make my job easy when you create any appearance of keeping…
Hey, Mom, clear some space on the fridge! South Dakota Magazine published one of my essays! If you want to read the whole thing, head to South Dakota Magazine. My column is the first of what should be an ongoing…
One of my East River correspondents provides some impressions from the second meeting of the ad hoc Madison High School facility committee, a group of nine citizens convened by the Madison Central School Board to hash out a new plan…