The Washington Post editorial board says opponents and supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline are all exaggerating: Despite what you might have heard, the pipeline wouldn’t kill the planet, nor would it supercharge the economy. You don’t have to take…
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While Corinna Robinson talked sense about the Keystone XL pipeline (risk to water supplies, oil shipped to China, jobs nowhere near as numerous or impactful as TransCanada pretends), I hear Rep. Kristi Noem is trying to spread the flow by…
Remember Rebecca Rodriguez? She was one of Harding County rancher Bret Clanton's interesting house guests last year. Rodriguez was walking TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline route from Port Arthur, Texas, to Hardisty, Alberta, for her documentary project, This Land Was Your…
Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) is hollering about outsiders taking away South Dakotans' and Nebraskans' property rights. No, he's not finally getting his property-rights ducks in a row and protesting TransCanada's use of eminent domain to seize land for its…
The South Dakota Department of Labor sent officials to Aberdeen Friday to meet with the 260 workers laid off by the state-boosted and bankrupt Northern Beef Packers slaughterhouse. It didn't go well: Northern Beef Packers still owes hundreds of workers…
Part Cherokee (or Creek?) and honorary Comanche Johnny Depp may come to the rescue of his Lakota kemosabes on Pine Ridge to save Wounded Knee. Says the UK Daily Mail (via Indian County Today): Such is Depp’s commitment to the…
What's Matt McGovern doing after losing his bid to replace Kristie Fiegen on the Public Utilities Commission? Oh, the usual: trying to prevent big government from redistributing the wealth of South Dakota landowners to foreign moochers. Wait a minute: isn't…
Last month a Texas judge made the same error a South Dakota judge did in 2008, ruling that TransCanada, a Canadian corporation, can seize American property through eminent domain. Judge Bill Harris of Lamar County in Texas ruled that the…