South Dakota misses out on another chance to cash in on the North Dakota oil boom. The state has determined that sand in the Black Hills is not suitable for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process driving America's current oil…
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E pur se muove—e pur se evolve! Dr. Bill Harris charges into the public square to run interference for Senator Jeff Monroe's battle to teach insecure superstition in the public schools. Senator Monroe (R-24/Pierre) introduced Senate Bill 112 with the…
I told you that Senate Bills 101 and 112, Senator Jeff Monroe's silly proposals to let teachers spout off whatever random commentary they wish in their classrooms (or anyone else's) about fetuses and creationism, were poorly written legislation. Even Senator…
Senator Dan Lederman says that his Senate Bill 75, to prohibit dog breed-specific local ordinances, will prevent "media hysteria" from driving "feel-good, knee-jerk reactions" against adorable pit bulls. Medical experts disagree: Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity…
Rep. Don Kopp (R-35/Rapid City) plagiarizes sloppy science from The New American's Alex Newman. Compare Kopp's letter in Sunday's Rapid City Journal with Newman's writing from December 18: Kopp, 2014.01.12 Newman, 2013.12.18 In 2007, Al Gore hysterically warned the world…
Most South Dakota counties and the Legislature hesitate to stand in the way of the total industrialization of the prairie with sensible drainage regulations. But if our leaders don't want to stand in the way of wetland extinction, perhaps they'll…
Knowing how much our food supply depends on chemicals bums me out. Using those chemicals to fight weeds may also bum out farmers, says new research from France: [Harvard professor Marc] Weisskopf's group reports in the American Journal of Epidemiology…
Speaking of jobs, Governor Dennis Daugaard has made a big deal of promoting jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM jobs toward which we are supposed to retool our education system.... because who needs literature, anyway? But as with…