The GOP spin machine cheers Rep. Kristi Noem for getting the Water Resources Reform and Redevelopment Act to tell the Army Corps of Engineers to give better flood warnings to Marion Michael Rounds, Dan Lederman, and other rich Republicans who…
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As I peer through the double murk of Madison City Commission-speak and Chuck Clement's reporting thereof, I find my hometown mayor and commissioners making an interesting political statement about our Congress... and maybe our Congresswoman. The Madison City Commission voted…
Update 10:27 MDT: Intervenors get that snow day! The Water Management Board got together this morning in Rapid City, joined by a couple dozen Powertech opponents and even some brave souls from Edgemont who want the uranium mine, but decided…
Dakota Rural Action is rallying the troops for the beginning of important hearings on Powertech's plan to mine the southern Black Hills for uranium. The public only gets two hours to speak up about the dangers of in situ leach…
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…
Senator John Thune met with Madison's power elites yesterday at the Heartland Consumer Power District office. Read closely Chuck Clement's summary of the Senator's position on funding the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System: Thune noted that LCRWS was a…
Rep. Kristi Noem's latest fundraising e-mail says she'll face a "certain onslaught of negative ads" for "supporting spending cuts." Rick Weiland is a Democrat. Will he face negative ads if he supports the spending cuts proposed by the Obama Administration…
School and Public Lands Commissioner Jarrod Johnson recognizes how the federal crop insurance program (which crop insurance salesman's wife Kristi Noem wants to expand) causes farmers to plow up land that's better for other uses than crops. Now South Dakota…