Trump loves miners… so you’d think he’d want to help protect his rugged subterranean voters from getting killed by the quartz they have to use…
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That was fast: NDN Collective launched protests at Pe’ Sla last week; they won a temporary injunction in federal court Tuesday; and now today, their…
Federal Judge Camela C. Theeler has stopped Pete Lien and Sons’ search for graphite in the heart of the Black Hills while American Indians and…
Some of the best billification in Pierre is coming from rookie Representative Nicole Uhre-Balk (D-32/Rapid City). With House Bill 1273, Rep. Uhre-Balk proposes that South…
Tax hike! Tax hike! A Republican legislator is proposing a tax hike! Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen) proposes Senate Bill 7 to increase South Dakota’s tax…
Come to the South Dakota for the freedom! You’ll love how government doesn’t get in the way of starting a business with zoning and environmental…
South Dakota may miss out on the lithium boom. The folks drilling for that vital battery metal in the Black Hills may all want to…
We’d better hope those rare-earth elements up in North Dakota didn’t also get sprinkled into the Black Hills; otherwise, we might have a hard time…
California can figure out how to tax lithium mining, but South Dakota can’t. Representative Kirk Chaffee (R-29/Whitewood) proposed House Bill 1072 to subject lithium to…
Nepotism, inattention to elected duties, and general incompetence aren’t nuisances to the 217,008 South Dakotans who reëlected Governor Kristi Noem yesterday. But 1,993 voters in…