Agropur plans to pump two million gallons of its cheese-plant wastewater into the Big Sioux River. The main health concern from that water is its…
Category: South Dakota
If you’re coming to Aberdeen from anywhere east in August (like for the Brown County Fair!), you might want to come up 281. Bob Mercer…
The Displaced Plainsman gleefully (I enjoy picturing the Plainsman gleeful) comments on new USD president Sheila Gestring’s welcome defense of liberal arts education as a…
I’m a text guy. I don’t listen to many podcasts. It thus takes an eager reader/listener to point out this curious clip from Dusty Johnson’s…
District 3 Democrats will be increasing the barbecue quotient in Aberdeen Saturday. District 3 House candidates Justin Roemmick and Brooks Briscoe will join me, District…
Special Session! Special Session! Chief of staff Tony Venhuizen is telling the press that his boss, Governor Dennis Daugaard, is considering convening the Legislature to…
To win the race for South Dakota’s lone House seat, Tim Bjorkman doesn’t need to make hay of Dusty Johnson’s association with accused Russian spy…
Following my post Tuesday on South Dakota’s rising suicide rate, an eager reader helps me find the updated suicide surveillance report with 2017 data on the…
Not yet tanked by the Trump tariffs is the big soybean plant AGP is building here in Aberdeen. AGP has been cagy about telling us…
I noted last week that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Billie Sutton’s stated opposition to a state income tax cedes too much ground to the Republican fiscal…