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Poop Power: California Company Converting Cow Crap to Cleaner Combustibles

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-02-19

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:…

Apple Teams with Amazon to Strangle Repair/Resale Market

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2018-12-23

I just learned from NPR that, starting January 4, Amazon will block most small businesses from selling used Apple products on their platform. In November,…

Podcast #7: Enno Limvere, Earth Day Fair, and More!

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2017-04-19

Crank up your headphones and ring the Tip Jar—it’s Dakota Free Press Podcast #7! https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/podcast/DFP007.mp3 In this week’s episode, Green Aberdeen leader Enno Limvere tells us about Green Aberdeen’s local environmental…

What You’re Saying

Bob Newland on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": SoDakians need to pay more attention to their evil...
leslie on "Ravnsborg Co-Prosecu...": curiously, not only Libertarian, Kurt Evans (is it...
Bob Newland on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": Actually, Mark, it's difficult to tell what you ac...
Mark Mowry on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": No Cory, I'm not really trying to say that Gov. No...
Cory Allen Heidelberger on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": Politically motivated? Horsehockey, Mark: I have n...
Mark Mowry on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": The revised UCC introduced at least two potentiall...
larry kurtz on "Allender: Colorado T...": Ping....
larry kurtz on "Ravnsborg Co-Prosecu...": Kurt Evans deserves far more respect by signing hi...
larry kurtz on "Rail-Lobbyist Thune ...": So, if we live in South Dakota for fifty years, st...
larry kurtz on "Rail-Lobbyist Thune ...": Republican is simply another word for Earth hater....

Blog Roll: SD Mostly Political

The South Dakota Standard
A Rapid City homeowner’s nightmare: City and state ignore permit rules as environmental hazard threatens their property: (Editor’s note: The following was originally posted on Oct. 15, 2021. The matter described by Fern Johnson has just gone to court. Now that the case has gotten media attention, we’re re-posting John…

2023.03.27

Bluestem Prairie
House passes private prison prohibition: Over the years, Bluestem has written extensively about the CoreCivic-owned Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, MN. We were happy to see Dam Wolgamott's bill banning private prisons pass on t…

2023.03.26

Bluestem Prairie
South Dakota interest groups spend 1000s on social events for lawmakers, with no disclosure: I'm speechless. From South Dakota Searchlight: Interest groups spend thousands on social events for lawmakers, with no disclosure By Joshua Haiar PIERRE — Politicians, lobbyists and liquor dealer…

2023.03.26

The South Dakota Standard
It’s true that we’re living longer, but why do we have to work longer and harder when our aging bodies say “no”?: We’re living longer. Ergo, we must work longer. So saith those with soft, manicured hands, perfectly coiffed hair and stylish ensembles.Let's examine this argument and the class divides inherent…

2023.03.26

South DaCola
House that City of Sioux Falls wants to demolish had a Go Fund me page: I guess the owner of the house was NOT to happy about this and I believe it was taken down. Someone else put it up as a joke. Probably enough there to take the whole family to Burger King.…

2023.03.25

Northern Valley Beacon
What can people in Aberdeen do to get some news?: The most noticeable symptom that something was wrong was that the newspaper featured a front page photo of Governor Ditz (aka Noem) almost everyday. That seemed to be a distraction for the fact tha…

2023.03.23

South DaCola
City of Sioux Falls using firefighters to fill potholes: I am not opposed to different city departments cross training. I have often said that cross training between two departments would be beneficial to taxpayers; With the increased workload, Public Works…

2023.03.23

Northern Valley Beacon
Fired NSU president appointed president of Minnesota State U. Moorhead: Here is the news release from Moorhead: Timothy Downs Named President of Minnesota State University MoorheadThe Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities has named Timothy Dow…

2023.03.23

Bonny's Blog
March 22, 2023: COVID Weekly Data Update: Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring wastewater can help communities detect and prepare for increasing cases of COVID-19 in a timely manner (https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/how-wws-works/index.html#print): Was…

2023.03.23

South Dakota News Watch
11 billion-pound mystery: The chemicals South Dakota trains carry: At 6:18 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2015, a defective railroad line built in the early 1900s failed, leading to the derailment of seven tanker cars carrying ethanol near Lesterville, S.D.... The post 11 billion…

2023.03.22

Blog Roll: Greater SD Blogosphere

Idle Hands Dep't
Geography Div (Really old subsection): What can this be ???Well it's a drawing of the oldest known European map of a Bronze Age kingdom.Read all about it here courtesy of Atlas Obscura…

2023.03.27

SleuthSayers
Never give in to lazy fact checkers.: I wonder if Winston Churchill would be amused or annoyed if he knew of all the brilliant quotes and witticisms attributed to him that he never actually wrote or said. I’ll answer my own question. I t…

2023.03.27

SleuthSayers
A I on Short Story: Artificial Intelligence once was a concept of science fiction, a thing of the future. Now, it's a creature of the present and we are still learning how to use it.With the right AI software, anyon…

2023.03.26

Idle Hands Dep't
A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass: Bluegrass DNA from the Farm Hands Tim Graves on Dobro, Don Wayne Reno on banjo, Terry Eldredge on bass, and Jimmy Haynes on guitar.…

2023.03.26

The Poetry of Barry G. Wick
A Memory: A MemoryThis morning colder as I sitAt an old plastic sinkBrushing my graying hairThe man in the mirrorLooks at strands in a combPulled from his thinning headAcross the room a radioPlays a piano trioA…

2023.03.25

Mark Haugen
Finished: 'Miami Purity' by Vicki Hendricks: I needed this book. It's been a while since I had one knock my socks off, and this one did. I read the book in one sitting, literally, on a recent flight to Tampa. Fortunately, for my seat-mates…

2023.03.25

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #561: More Home Plays: Just like last week, this episode is primarily based around what I've been listening to in the Ledge home base over the last few days. Some of it is brand new material. Much of it has been old fa…

2023.03.25

LivingNonviolence
The birds are back!: Several weeks ago I shopped for Black Oil Suflower seeds for the bird feeder. The supermarket was out of stock and all they had was a wild bird seed mix. Not my first choice, but I was in a hurry so…

2023.03.24

Mark Haugen
No cash, no problem: Wifey and I spent last week in Florida. If you like beaches, bikinis, bands and baseball you'd enjoy it. I do and I did.One of the unique (to me) things we encountered was at the Atlanta Braves…

2023.03.23

Native Hope Blog
Water does not reach all Americans with equity: Mni Wiconi translates to “Water is Life.” When called upon to think about something as essential yet basic as water, most don’t give its existence a second thought. Many people associate this life-sus…

2023.03.20

Posts tagged as “recycling”

Poop Power: California Company Converting Cow Crap to Cleaner Combustibles

Apple Teams with Amazon to Strangle Repair/Resale Market

Podcast #7: Enno Limvere, Earth Day Fair, and More!