In Governor Kristi Noem’s world, Indian tribes can’t stop motorists on their sovereign territory to make sure they aren’t bringing coronavirus into their communities, but…
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Governor Kristi Noem just used the coronavirus as an excuse to suspend environmental protections around factory hog farms. In Executive Order 2020-17, her fourteenth executive…
Oil supply is booming while demand is crashing. Oil Price Information Service chief Tom Kloza predicts that by early May, gasoline will cost perhaps half…
Must every dollar of South Dakota’s corporate welfare dollars go to stinking up the state? Our dogged subsidization of CAFOs has obvious odorous impacts; now…
TransCanada/TC Energy announces the commencement of its latest contribution to the Trumpist destruction of Earth with the beginning of route preparation for the Keystone XL…
Senator John Wiik takes a moment to claim that his Senate Bill 54, the plastic-ban ban, will save us from coronavirus: Governor Noem held a…
Poop is power, says California’s Brightmark Energy, which plans to come from San Francisco to South Dakota to turn factory feedlot manure into natural gas:…
Governor Kristi Noem’s factory feedlot zoning bill, Senate Bill 157, still awaits its first hearing before Senate State Affairs. That’s more attention than new applications…
Trumpists appear determined to undo all efforts at good parenting. I have taught my daughter to pick up her trash, recycle when possible, and not…
by Nancy Johnson Wirsing This article responds to a three-part series of articles in the Gregory Times Advocate by South Dakota News Watch reporter Bart…