South Dakota still beats Mars for oxygen, but at least Mars doesn’t have mosquitoes. The buggers carrying Zika may not frequent South Dakota (either they haven’t seen GOED’s…
Tag: health
My morning paper reminds me that fish in a couple of area lakes continue to carry a bit too much mercury. The Department of Health now posts mercury…
Senator Bernie Sanders made all sorts of good points in his speeches in Pine Ridge, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls yesterday (see full video below). Among them, the…
Three public officials face criminal charges for falsifying documents to certify Flint, Michigan’s water for public consumption and thus poison its residents for well over a year. But last…
Pipestone Holdings, the same folks who think it’s harassment to say that their pig poop near Mount Vernon stinks, wants to build a 9,000-hog concentrated animal feeding operation near…
An angry commenter asked me yesterday how I sleep at night. With so much corruption going on in our fair state, maybe the question is, how…
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 Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
The South Dakota Animal Industry Board meets Wednesday, May 20. After discussing the avian flu outbreak at our turkey and chicken farms, the board will turn at…