My sharp-eyed commenters notice that Midcontinent and Midco Communications are adding over 300 jobs with two new expansions in the Fargo area. Amazingly, the South Dakota company chose to expand in a neighboring state with more snow and individual and…
Posts tagged as “North Dakota”
Pete Carrels of the South Dakota branch of the Sierra Club took a trip north of the border Monday to look at the TransCanada Keystone oil spill at the Ludden pumping station in Sargent County, North Dakota. Carrels files this…
Update 11:48 CDT: The original version of this post cited Reuters and Wall Street Journal articles describing the spill as 500 barrels. Tar Sands Pipelines says 400 barrels; the initial National Response Center incident report says 100 barrels. A subsequent…
While Dakota War College is busy flogging the tired Michele Bachmann meme of light-bulb oppression and regurgitating central party agitprop, it misses a chance to beat greenies over the head with their own greeniness. Xcel Energy just announced that it…
...of course, for me, this just means higher property tax. The Portland Cement Association finds South Dakota is one of five states where the housing market will rebound fastest. Rebound? From what? PCA says our housing prices still increased 0.5%…
Last week I noted the difference in fiscal politics between Minnesota and South Dakota. That essay arose from a conversation with my neighbor and outgoing state legislator Gerry Lange. In the following guest column, he exapnds the view to include…
If you think the 48,000 acres proposed for the Tony Dean Cheyenne River National Grassland Wilderness is a big deal, check this out: Mr. Kurtz reads about an ambitious conservation project proposed by our friends at the U.S. Fish and…