Dr. David Newquist and Wendell Berry both meditate on the industrial hollowing out of America’s agricultural land and soul. I do both men injustice with mere…
Tag: agriculture
We don’t get anywhere telling Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Republican Legislature that we need to pay English teachers and music teachers more, because who…
South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch thinks the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help South Dakota farmers by further opening foreign markets for our ag exports. Ag columnist…
Not flip-flopping on TPP: Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Factory Farming Agriculture. In March, Secretary Lentsch said the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be great for South Dakota ag…
Hillary Clinton’s reversal to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows that Senator Bernie Sanders is winning (winning what, I’ll let the commentariat debate!). RNC chief Reince Priebus says Clinton’s…
Bob Mercer links to this map from the Public Utilities Commission’s hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline, showing how the Bakken oil shipper will hook into Energy Partners’ national…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian still thinks Democratic candidate for U.S. House Paula Hawks is a longshot, but he comes away from his 45-minute conversation with…
South Dakota Farmers Union (which is currently paying me money to circulate a petition) brought a big crew to Congress last week for its annual D.C. Fly-In to…
Dakota Rural Action and South Dakota Farmers Union say the Department of Environment and Natural Resources left them out of the process of updating the General Water Pollution Control…
If the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe can turn their bowling alley into a pot-smoking hall, the Standing Rock Reservation ought to be able to grow…