Don’t expect local protests of the Keystone pipeline spill. Folks around tiny Amherst think that 5,000 barrels of toxic tar sands oil and solvents spilled…
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The good news is, TransCanada shut down the Keystone pipeline today! The bad news is, they had to because their Indian-steel pipe sprang a leak…
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. But watch out: guns do wound careless hunters in the foot: At approximately 10 a.m. Saturday, a 32-year-old South…
The difference between temporary and permanent is significant. Just ask the last guy your wife dated before she married you. In their latest tax cut…
The U.S. Energy Information Agency provides a remarkable interactive map showing the location of American energy resources, production facilities, and transmission infrastructure. This map shows…
Mickelson, Mickelson, Mickelson—I’m not obsessed; the Republican Speaker of our House is just making lots of news! Speaker Mickelson wants the Legislature to put a…
If you’re looking for reliable coverage of ballot measures, don’t look to the Michell paper. Their Monday report on David Owen’s local presentation on pending…
Senator Jim Bolin presented the Initiative and Referendum Task Force’s mostly bad reforms to the Legislature’s Executive Board Monday. Speaker and E-Board chairman G. Mark Mickelson…
The South Dakota Legislature briefly considered a Scott Walker/Wisconsin-style ban on collective bargaining for public employees in 2012. That bill quickly failed. But our Republican…