Canadian mining company PowerTech held another dog-and-pony show on May 22 in Custer to promote its plan to squirt uranium out of the ground in Custer and Fall River counties. The Custer County Chronicle reported that the project "could mean…
Posts published in June 2013
Hey, Annette! You want to be a change agent? Prove it.... Senator John Thune predictably responds to a constituent's inquiry about gun regulations by raising false constitutional concerns about a national gun registry that was not part of the bill…
Dr. Annette Bosworth is following the arch-conservative playbook in her embryonic Senate bid. Fresh from her campaign-cash fishing expedition to Washington, D.C., she comes back to Sioux Falls saying God wants her to run: She also said her faith is…
An eager reader sends me this CNN photo-story of Ohio teachers posing with their guns. (For the benefit of South Dakota's legislators, shall I emphasize the word posing?) After I got past the silly comment from firearms instructor Alan Wheeler…
I promise, Bob: I was not wearing my camos or mask while writing this post. Tar sands oil and the pipelines that carry them bring unavoidable risks to South Dakota. But TransCanada exacerbates those risks with what a fired engineer…
Lincoln County is responsible for sending one of the most Tea-baggin'est contingents of legislators to Pierre. District 6, the Lennox-Tea-Harrisburg corner of the county, elected ultra-conservatives Ernie Otten, Herman Otten, and Isaac Latterell last year. The other three districts that…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its data on gross domestic product by state for 2012. The good news is that no state experienced a recession last year except for Connecticut, and that recession was tiny, –0.1%. The bad…
Staple a poster for your rummage sale to a phone pole, or put up a sign with plastic tie-downs or visible bolts on your property, and the City of Spearfish will bust your chops for such offending the splendor of…