Conservatives celebrate Big Oil projects and ridicule environmentalists who argue that we should leave oil in the ground. Yet conservative former legislator, now Bon Homme County…
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Bob Mercer’s “Week Ahead in State Government” column is a useful heads-up on upcoming meetings and deadlines. However, he makes one important error in this week’s edition:…
The South Dakota Legislature does not wage war on women’s rights and transgender inclusivity unopposed. Two important days of action are coming up next week. First, Equality…
O.K., Larry Kurtz is right. Grass is such a politically potent issue that it can topple even Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plans: Based on input from the…
Pat Powers and I appear to agree that Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan to convert the closely manicured turf of Hilger’s Gulch in Pierre to wildflowers and other…
The South Dakota Board of Regents meet this week in the swanky digs of River Rock Lodge. Among their agenda items is a discussion of…
Don’t want a foreign company using eminent domain to take South Dakotans’ land and subject our crops, cattle, and aquifers to tar sands pollution? Then get…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission will take up TransCanada’s application to renew its permit to build Keystone XL across West River in two weeks. The hearing begins…