As Bearcreekbat rightly reminds us, we should not attack politicians for expanding public assistance, at least not when that public assistance promotes the general welfare rather than corporate cronies. That's why we should cheer four Republican-controlled states that are likely…
Posts tagged as “Wyoming”
I've lived in Spearfish. I've seen Gillette. No one can convince me that Gillette is a nicer place to live and work and love than Spearfish. But former Spearfish teacher Lynnae Fox disagrees. Wyoming's teacher pay just enticed her and…
Our Wyoming neighbors have become the 44th state to establish a lottery. However, they won't be playing scratch tickets or video lottery: ...[I]n an unusual move, lawmakers banned the lucrative and popular scratch-off tickets and electronic video lottery games. “That…
The Environmental Integrity Project finds Basin Electric, source of much of the electricity used in South Dakota, is one of the leading generators of toxic air pollution. Their new report on the dirtiest power plants in the nation finds that,…
Living in Spearfish is cool not just because Spearfish is cool but because it's so close to so much cool stuff. Yesterday we piled into the Bug and drove 62 miles on Old U.S. 14 and Wyoming 24 to see…
MPBRP—that's the sound I made last night after eating salads made with bacon, sausage, and salami. MPBRP is also the Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project the Forest Service is proposing to take care of those pesky pine beetles in the…