Hey, South Dakota college juniors and seniors! Is your tuition going up next year? (Answer: yes.) Then you should apply for the Esther Edie Memorial Scholarship. This isn't just green, it's green green! The South Dakota Resources Coalition has established…
Posts tagged as “environment”
Apparently cow poop doesn't stink as much as it used to in Grant County. Last Tuesday the Grant County Planning and Zoning Board received from its study group a detailed recommendation for revising the county's regulations for concentrated animal feeding…
A West River correspondent with legislative experience says that the 2011 South Dakota Legislature passed some new rules that hurt schools in sparsely populated districts. I review this correspondent's list of sparse school districts in northwestern South Dakota and find…
South Dakotans rejoice! The U.S. State Department has wisely decided to subject TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline to a longer environmental review. That means at least a few months that we can delay even higher gasoline prices and toxic spills for…
Representative Patricia Stricherz (R-8/Madison) broke with the Chamber of Commerce leadership of her party and voted against SB 158 yesterday. This bill is a favor for Powertech, a company that wants to mine uranium in the southern Black Hills. SB…
I hear from my friends on the Elk Point Gorilla forum that the DENR Board of Minerals and Environment is discussing some permit rule changes tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 17) at 1 p.m. CST in Pierre. The board plans to officially…
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…
Governor Daugaard insists that we can't raise taxes. He frets that taxes now could hinder economic growth, even though his 10% budget cuts could do even more damage to the South Dakota economy. So Governor Daugaard, tell us what's not…