While Rep. Noem peddles the fantasy that approving a pipeline will drastically reduce gasoline prices, and as South Dakota Republicans clutter gas pumps with propaganda falsely blaming the President for spinning numbers at the pump, Senator Jeff Bingaman of New…
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House Agriculture and Natural Resources passed House Bill 1087 yesterday. This bill is Rep. Betty Olson's (R-28/Prairie City) latest attempt to kill conservation easements in South Dakota. Ostensibly, the bill only eliminates perpetual conservation easements by setting a thirty-year limit…
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) hates conservation easements. Last year she co-sponsored two failed bills that sought to create all sorts of red tape for property owners who want to establish conservation easements on their land. Now Rep. Olson is…
While our 2011 Legislature found time to pass coercive pre-abortion counseling and corporate welfare, it did nothing to help South Dakota catch up with the rest of the country in energy efficiency. The 2011 Energy Scorecard from the American Council…
Let's piece this together: Heartland Consumer Power District is a public corporation and political subdivision of the state of South Dakota (SDCL 49-35-3). Political subdivisions of the state "may not expend or permit the expenditure of public funds for the…
In good news, the Senate Appropriations Committee (including our Senator Tim Johnson) approved an agriculture budget that would allow the rulemaking process for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Act (GIPSA) to go ahead. The House earlier this summer stripped…
Your turn, Congress! The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has approved a plan to create the Dakota Grassland Conservation Area, a really good idea that would protect nearly two million acres of land in the eastern Dakotas and protect landowner…
The Natural Resources Defense Council has released its latest report on states' dependence on oil. The data for South Dakota look discouraging: In 2010, South Dakotans spent 5.26% of their income, $2044 per driver, on gasoline. That's up from our…