Here's an issue on which the Libertarians won't be able to help us with a nominee for attorney general: South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley threw us in with eleven other yahoo states suing to stop the federal government from…
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Uh oh: better go easy on the walleye. SDPB reports that sixteen lakes have state advisories that fish caught therein may have high mercury levels. The Department of Health lists those lakes and the potentially mercurial fish: County Lake Fish…
The word of the day: variability... as in climate variability... as in the thing we now say to keep from flipping denialists' lids by saying global warming or climate change. The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, South…
Reporter Bob Mercer blames the Obama Administration for killing coal-fired electricity plants. Mercer apparently only reads corporate press releases. As I have previously reported on both the NextGen coal-fired plant near Selby that Basin Electric canceled in 2010 and the…
Heartland Consumer Power District proudly announces that its pro-oil and pro-coal general manager Mike McDowell and paid lobbyist/state senator Russell Olson will participate in the Plain Green Conference in Sioux Falls on Friday. McDowell and Olson will contribute to a…
Hey, look at that! Public Utilities Commission candidate Nick Nemec posted the complete video of last Saturday's State Fair PUC candidates' debate in Huron, South Dakota: Now the South Dakota Farmers Union hosted this debate, so according to Rep. Kristi…
My weekend reading juxtaposed the following articles: The Rapid City Journal ran a batch of articles discussing the impact of the Bakken oil boom on western South Dakota. Barbara Soderlin finds GCC Dacotah Cement in Rapid City trucking cement daily…
On my adventures around the Black Hills, I keep noticing that the grand vistas seem a little hazy. Bear Butte, the vast plains around us... they should be a little clearer, shouldn't they? Yes, they should, but western coal plants…