Bridal Veil Falls and Spearfish Creek look mighty impressive, but the past few days' rains have wrought a little havoc here in the Northern Black Hills: Spearfish Creek peaked at a flow of 690 cubic feet per second yesterday around…
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The snow has me trading the classroom for the blog and the shovel today. The snow also has postponed the Spearfish, Lead, and Deadwood elections for one week. Spearfish mayoral candidate Dana Boke thus has one more week to work…
Hey, Walt Bones! What happens when you think agriculture is the only option for rural economic development? The weather changes, and you end up being the only state where personal incomes dropped in 2012: Average state personal income growth slowed…
Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch, and we are all its slaves. —Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence, 2008 Texas-based Hyperion's refinery in Union County would have consumed 12 million gallons…
At yesterday's District 31 crackerbarrel, GOP Rep. Tim Johns explained his vote against House Bill 1087, the school gunslinger bill, in part by saying that no one offered testimony that South Dakota's schools are unsafe. Quite the contrary, the House…
Rep. Kristi Noem says that the debt-paying trillion-dollar platinum coin idea, which was never going to happen, was embarrassing. Want to know what's really embarrassing? A Congresswoman who votes for disaster relief for her own red-state voters but not for…
On my way in to the city commission this afternoon, I took some pictures of signs around town. First, what greets dusty visitors coming to Madison from the west on Highway 34? Ah, air conditioning. That's seals the deal for…
The 1950s must have been an exciting time to be alive. Asimov and Heinlein were leading a golden age of science fiction. The new magic of television set homes aglow with technological wonder. And in South Dakota, the Legislature declared…