...or at least illness and mountain lion attacks. Earlier this year, Bob Mercer encouraged the corporate-fascist propaganda that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and Powertech in-situ uranium mine pose terrorist threats. Seemingly switching gears, in an opinion column last…
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The big October blizzard gave Black Hills opponents of the Powertech uranium mining proposal an extra three weeks to prepare their arguments for their hearing before the South Dakota Water Management Board. Now Powertech itself has helped them gain more…
John Tsitrian, who knows more about high finance than I do, reads the Citigroup-written derivatives bill that Rep. Kristi Noem voted for a couple weeks ago and says, lighten up! Yes, H.R. Bill 992 was crafted by the financial institutions…
Forbes releases another ranking of the Best States for Business. The good news: South Dakota is #11! The bad news: the People's Republic of Minnesota is 8th. state ranks (Forbes, Sep 2013) ND NE MN SD IA WY MT Business…
Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) is having all sorts of fun shaking up conservative Republican sensibilities this week. First he declares his conversion to opposing the death penalty. Now he calls for state inspection of carnival rides: "What's going…
Conservatives respond with... crickets! Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch is supposed to decide today whether to implement new rules on the production and sale of raw milk in South Dakota. If he reads the Rapid City Journal and acts like…
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…
Remarkable: the South Dakota Legislature's Oil and Gas interim committee has posted drafts of seventeen pieces of legislation they may consider to regulate the oil and gas industry in South Dakota. Committee member Rep. Spence Hawley (D-7/Brookings) says the committee…