The sight of a white-supremacist (and historically fallacious) “Three Percenter” flag in one of my neighbors’ yards here in Aberdeen got me reading about how…
Tag: Bakken
Brooklyn artist Michael Patrick F. Smith came to Williston in 2013 to seek his fortune in the Bakken oil fields. He left with less money…
The Republican spin blog reads a Wall Street Journal editorial crediting the Dakota Access pipeline with lowering energy transportation costs and reducing rail transport of…
An eager reader notes that tribes in North Dakota face conflict over Il Duce’s fossil-fuel impulses. In one corner, we have Standing Rock Sioux tribal…
When Scott Westerhuis’s murder/arson/suicide launched the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal to the front pages, I immediately noticed the suspect business manager’s small web of corporate entities.…
Certain oil and gas boosters want South Dakota to believe, against most evidence, that expanding oil exploration would bring us the milk and honey of the…
Aberdeen Development Corporation chief Mike Bockorny said in February that recruiting refugees is key to filling jobs in Brown County. The focus then seemed to be Karen,…