It's Dairy Month in South Dakota, wherein we celebrate an industry in which the pro-corporate policies of Bill Janklow, M. Michael Rounds, and Dennis Daugaard have concentrated ownership in just 370 hands. (Once upon a time, South Dakota had 20,000…
Posts published in June 2013
The deck unstacks, just a little! After initially scheduling the hearing for Powertech's uranium mining permit in Pierre, Board of Minerals and Environment hearing chair Rexford Hagg has relocated the hearing to the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. The…
Regular readers know I don't go for conspiracy theories. But give me three instances of the powers that be portraying anti-Keystone XL activists as terrorists, and I can't help thinking we face an orchestrated corporate PR campaign. First public officials…
Suppose you're a doctor running for Senate as a Republican. You know darn well that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act saves money and saves lives, but to get money from Republican donors, you have to ape the expected…
The South Dakota Supreme Court issued a ruling on bigamy yesterday. Yes, bigamy! Michael Clements and Kristi Anderson got married in North Dakota in 2009. Anderson filed for divorce on April 15, 2011. Then 38-year-old Clements and 18-year-old (warning! warning!)…
Even before Donald Pay broke the news that South Dakota may be angling for a nuclear waste dump, South Dakota ex-pat Joe Loveland wrote this funny, sharp rejection of Governor Dennis Daugaard's Minnesotan recruiting pitch. Loveland acknowledges the appeal of…
Holy glowing cow! If you're trying to work up the courage to run against Dennis Daugaard for Governor in 2014, let this stiffen your spine: Governor Daugaard may be setting South Dakota up to host a nuclear waste dump. To…