Incoming School of Mines president and former new Mexico Congresswoman Heather Wilson doesn't care much for gay people. She also apparently doesn't care for doing the paperwork the federal government expects of contractors at its nuclear labs: Former U.S. Rep.…
Posts published in June 2013
Once again I find myself not envying the job of our state Supreme Court. Last week, our justices issued their ruling in the matter of the estate of Eugene Shipman. Eugene and his wife Arline, of Fairfax, in Gregory County,…
Ah! Of course Annette Bosworth is a Republican. She and her husband want government to control women's reproductive choices: How do I add the fact that women are at risk so long term birth control should be mandated [Chad Haber,…
An eager reader puts two and two together and comes up with outrage. The Senate passed the Farm Bill Monday, 66–27. Senator Tim Johnson voted for it, emphasizing the $250,000 cap on payments to farmers ($125K per farmer, doubled if…
Boy, Kristi even sends me an e-mail to let me know she's leaving the door open for Stace Nelson to run for Senate: I am excited to announce today my intention to seek re-election to the U.S. House in 2014.…
You may have read my top-of-the-morning post yesterday on South Dakota's anemic GDP growth for 2012, a meager 0.2% uptick for the year. Then you may have read the state economic development honcho Pat Costello's announcement that South Dakota's GDP…
To prove she's up to the job of Senator, here's Annette Bosworth's new Twitter profile photo: Wear fatigues, and you're an intimidating eco-terrorist. But add blaze orange and tote a shotgun, and you're a respectable South Dakota candidate. Good grief!…
You think TransCanada/Keystone pipeline opponents are noisy? Try living next to one of the Keystone pumping stations, like the one near Fort Ransom, North Dakota, that's bothering its neighbors: The Keystone pump station that contains four, 5,000-horsepower electric turbines has…