The Senate advanced one bad bill for agriculture, the environment, and citizen participation last week; now the House has a chance to pass one good bill for agriculture, the environment,…
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In another move to take away South Dakotans’ rights in favor of capitalists’ pigs, Senate State Affairs yesterday approved House Bill 1140, Rep. Mark Mickelson’s proposal to reduce citizens’…
House Bill 1140, the latest move in Rep. G. Mark Mickelson’s ongoing effort to make it easier to build giant concentrated animal feeding operations in South…
The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares…
Before you head to Rapid City or Sioux Falls to hear Koch Brothers’ propagandist Stephanie Maier reinforce your failing sense of white privilege by telling…
Rural residents south of Mount Vernon continue to find their quality of life degraded by the stench of Jackrabbit Family Farms’ sow operation, which processes 150,000…
Speaking of CAFOs, Turner County is trying again to craft zoning regs that would allow Sonstegard Foods to concentrate six million laying hens just outside of Parker. Judge Tim…
Canada went Bizarro-Bush last night by electing a majority-Liberal government and replacing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Justin Trudeau, son of 1970s–1980s PM Pierre Trudeau.…
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…