Yankton County faces a secession movement from four townships making up the northeastern quarter-plus of the county. Continuing the farm-entitlement mindset, farmers in Mayfield, Turkey…
Tag: environment
Republicans can’t figure out where they stand on federal environmental regulation. On the one hand, they’ve screamed for years that the Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t…
Long-time Yankton Stockmen’s Livestock Market owner Gail Sohler apparently has some regrets about his involvement in the ag-industrial complex. In this remarkable letter to the…
The Water Management Board is hearing TC Energy/TransCanada’s request for a permit to draw water for the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil…
WNAX gets me reading about pig poop and new National Pork Board propaganda saying swine farms don’t smell as bad as they used to. The…
Neonicotinoids, the same pesticides that research indicates hurt bees, may also be bad for deer, says research from SDSU: The first study, with results published…
The first time I wrote about Azarga’s planned in situ uranium mine near Edgemont (and this is over ten years ago, in June 2009!), they…
The Hand County Commission will answer the state’s half-million dollar question tomorrow: is a $477K bribe from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development enough incentive…
The 2019 Pheasant Brood Survey shows exactly what every reasonable scientific observer and Game Fish and Parks’s own experts predicted: no sign of any boost…
South Dakota had 7.1% more forest trees in 2018 than it did in 2013. Much to the relief of Mayor Travis Schaunaman and all those…