A confession: I like the Spearfish Walmart. I still felt a frisson of anti-corporate joy when a free-wheeling logging trailer whacked the gas line and closed down our Walmart a couple Fridays ago. But for the most part, I enjoy…
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Wrap your head around this one: an environmentalist could go to jail for trying to trick loggers into cutting down more trees: A Black Hills environmentalist who for years has fought U.S. Forest Service timber-cutting projects is facing federal charges…
The South Dakota House of Representatives came together yesterday to pass HB 1117 to allow South Dakotans to shoot muskrats. At the same time, the South Dakota Senate put its shoulder to advancing SB 114 to make the buffalo our…
Now there's something you don't see every day: a bill to require convicted hookers and johns to get tested for AIDS. Such is the nature of House Bill 1263, pitched by Rep. Bob Deelstra (R-9/Hartford). Rep. Deelstra would require anyone…
Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) dumped a load into the legislative hopper yesterday. Among his proposals is Senate Bill 133, which proposes to create a new crime, "aggravated disorderly conduct." Under SB 133, it's one thing to make a ruckus,…
Great: the Hell's Angels have chosen Spearfish for their 2012 "convention": In July, about 600 Hell's Angel motorcycle club members will be in Spearfish. Spearfish Police Chief Pat Rotert said Tuesday that his department is already making preparations to make…
...and other vaguely videographical notes... I feel dirty, downright filthy, running the same press release as Bob Ellis. But as Ellis's newly rebranded American Carrion reports, Rep. Stace Nelson is in the movies! Nelson is a featured expert in The…
Mitt Romney's campaign slogan, as repeated for the umpteenth time in last night's New Hampshire debate, is, "We're becoming more like Europe!" On so many fronts, one can only wish that were true. Former Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Dave Cieslewicz explains…