Yesterday, Dakota Free Press commenters (who despite their occasional digressions and insults remain the most diverse, intelligent, and thought-provoking online commenters in South Dakota) got into a brief dust-up over Public Utilities…
Tag: environment
Speaking of CAFOs, Watertown appears to be caught in the crosshairs of Governor Daugaard’s push for more dairy production. Brookings County factory dairy magnate Michael Crinion wants to…
Our friends at Dakota Rural Action are encouraging South Dakotans to solarize their homes. Local energy self-sufficiency is great, and solar technology is moving us toward…
Mr. Kurtz notes that the Rainbow family hippie gathering in the Black Hills National Forest over the July Fourth weekend appears to have come and…
Rep. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) thinks South Dakota needs more confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). He pushed legislation, HB 1201, that took effect yesterday making…
The Vatican released Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ at noon in Rome this morning. The Pope says he seeks not merely the attention of his Catholic followers…
Hey, you know all that foam you see blowing up from the brownish cascade that gives Sioux Falls its name? It probably came from your intensively…
If Pat Powers will squawk about backyard chickens as a bird flu risk, he’ll surely buzz about the dangers of backyard bees. At its Monday, May 4…
AARP has rated downtown Sioux Falls has one of the ten most livable neighborhoods in the U.S.: The hub of this fast-growing midsize city features…
The Wind Cave/Cold Brook prescribed burn-turned-wildfire caused a brief stretch of poor air quality in Rapid City on Tuesday. Hot Springs stayed smokier longer. (I check right now and find air quality…