My morning paper yesterday brought this pointed juxtaposition of headlines showing that Kristi Noem can’t wish away the real problems facing our state: Monument Health…
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Lots of school districts think they can open this fall, crowd kids in the usual numbers into the usual classrooms, and not see coronavirus break…
The Valentine Mining Company still wants to dig for gold just over the rim of Spearfish Canyon. Eight years after first seeking approval for its…
South Dakota’s Black Hills fire crews got a quick grip on that wildfire in Custer State Park, thanks in part to a fortuitous thunderstorm that…
I remember back in March reading the National Park Service’s assessment of the potential environmental impact of Kristi and Donald’s proposed fireworks show at Mount…
Back in December, Black Hills resident and wildfire expert Bill Gabbert called shooting off tons of fireworks over a ponderosa pine forest in July “literally…
My friend Joseph Nelson deserves credit for inspiring this post. Donald Trump says he’s yanking the convention from Charlotte, North Carolina. (Well, maybe not all…
I’m out staying away from people in the Black Hills. If you’re planning to take a break this weekend (and you know, we could all…
Watertown city officials figure coronavirus is serious enough to cancel the Independence Day fireworks they had scheduled for July 3: With South Dakota’s COVID-19 peak…
Want a job with social distancing? Join the National Forest Service. Just imagine tromping around the Black Hills all alone all day long, measuring trees,…