The newest Dakota Free Press podcast is ready for your ears! In Episode #12, incumbent Aberdeen City Council candidate Dennis “Mike” Olson tells all about the fundamental…
Tag: Black Hills
Sierra Club SD political chair Mark Winegar has been paying close attention to the EPA’s Black Hills hearings on the Azarga/Powertech uranium mining plan. Winegar…
Whoo-hoo—the newest Dakota Free Press podcast heads to the farm to interview school board member Brian Sharp, who is running for reëlection. Sharp is the only active…
When I toured the site of Azarga’s (then Powertech’s) proposed uranium mining site north of Edgemont in 2014, the project leaders told me that their in-situ recovery mining…
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comment on the two draft permits it wants to issue to foreign corporation Azarga/Powertech to shoot water into…
Yup—as expected, Kristi Noem is taking credit for the end of the pine beetle epidemic: Just wanted to send you a quick note, as the…
Dakota Free Press Podcast Episode #5 is up and ready for your earbuds! This week, Spencer Dobson and I talk March for Science, pine beetles, online…
Just like San Francisco city employees and insurance execs, the mountain pine beetle is staying away from South Dakota. The beetle epidemic that turned much of…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
KOTA-TV notes that Governor Dennis Daugaard lost his appeal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to place the Pe’ Sla grassland in the middle of…