Our legislators are receiving praise for passing HB 1216, the "Blender Pump Freedom Act." Thank goodness we've liberated blender pumps. Too bad women don't rate such respect from our legislators. HB 1217 passed Senate Health and Human Services Monday on…
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KELO blips an AP report on the USDA-NASS 2009 On-Farm Energy Production Survey. This first-ever count of renewable energy use in agriculture finds a tiny percentage of South Dakota farms are installing wind turbines and solar panels and saving a…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis just released its data on gross domestic product by metropolitan area for 2009. In the year that marked the official end of the recession, 222 of the 366 metro areas surveyed still saw their straight…
I'm paging through more of the Census 2010 data. You can go to the Census website and run numbers yourself, but be forewarned: the interface isn't immediately user-friendly. I noted earlier that Madison was a loser in the 2010 Census,…
I'm in Watertown judging Northern Quals, the toughest speech and debate tournament kids from Madison and other South Dakota towns north of I-90 ever compete in. Watching great debate in Watertown reminds me of the speech legend who roams freely…
Never mind January Jones's vacuous comments to Jon Stewart. South Dakota is catching grief from all quarters on the Web for the uninformed, xenophobic, deadly, and dumb legislation its lawmakers are proposing (Update: We still have no budget!). I hear…
Protestors have been occupying the Kentucky governor's office since Friday to protest mountain-top removal coal mining. Among the protestors: poet, philosopher, and rural activism hero Wendell Berry, described by Bill McKibben as the "finest writer at work in the English…
I'm having fun reading the I-29 Corridor analysis and growth strategy (draft PDF version available via Yankton city website). This project is then Brookings mayor, now District 7 State Rep. Scott Munsterman's brainchild to get everybody from Watertown down to…