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Posts tagged as “food”

Not Enough Burgers in South Dakota? Mooyah’s Thinks So

Oh boy: more fast burgers! National restaurant chain Mooyah Burgers, Fries & Shakes plans on coming to Sioux Falls next year. Development agents are working in the market to find locations and a local franchisee, according to Michael Mabry, director…

Fracking Makes Oil Boom, Beef Bust?

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is making possible an increase in U.S. oil production that... is working in tandem with energy-efficiency policy and technology to lead us toward energy self-sufficiency; made us a net exporter of petro-products in 2011 (tell me…

EPA Making Alpena Water Safer, Jerky Maker Survives and Thrives

Link Snacks, Inc., employs 850 people at its jerky factory in Alpena, population 286. That factory uses a lot of water, and the Environmental Protection Agency is tightening water quality regulations. To help Alpena meet those regulations and absorb increased…

Tim Johnson Joins Kristi Noem in Carping on School Lunch

I'm going to have a heck of a good lunch today, bigger and better than what I can get in any school lunch line in South Dakota. Alas, Senator Tim Johnson is now joining Congresswoman Kristi Noem in complaining that…

Noem Prefers Kids Fat and Dead

Congresswoman Kristi Noem has tried to make new federal school lunch guidelines a political issue. Noem considers the issue important enough for photo ops, though not important enough to warrant her attendance at committee meetings on the topic. Noem has…

Daugaard Declares School Lunch Week, Bags Noem Rhetoric

Right in the midst of Kristi Noem's School-Lunch-a-Palooza, somebody declares National School Lunch Week. And what does Kristi's fellow Republican Dennis Daugaard? He whips out his gubernatorial pen and declares the National School Lunch Program wonderful. The Department of Education…