Kristi Noem and the rest of the South Dakota Republican Party rail against out-of-state influence in our politics largely because their one-party regime can’t intimidate…
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Swiss researchers confirm that Aberdeen Mayor Travis Schaunaman should shed his dendrophobia and join Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in plating more trees. Greening the planet isn’t…
South Dakota’s regressive politics have cost us a shot at hosting the national Botany Conference. In an e-mail to at least one member of the…
Dr. David Newquist offers the fascinating thesis that Soviet agriculture failed not because of communism but because of the consolidation of farms under a science-denying…
South Dakota’s Department of Agriculture very sensibly set June 30 as the last day farmers can apply drift-prone dicamba herbicide. Senator Justin Cronin (R-23/Gettysburg) is…
South Dakota’s self-anointed Sportsman-in-Chief, Governor Kristi Noem, had better add deer and elk to her endangered money-making species list. The discovery of chronic wasting disease…
That online poll about Arabic numerals in Brookings Register showing the utter ignorance and likely bigotry of lots of respondents appears to be associated, alas, with…
Tree-hating mayoral candidate Travis Schaunaman would make Aberdeen not only bleaker but stinkier. According to scientists at the University of Minnesota, those trees Travis blames…
When they aren’t broadcasting their national Trumpist propaganda for most of the day, KELO Radio does put out some useful news. In this report on…
I wish the state offered an Irony Bounty—then I could get rich off Governor Noem’s possum-killing plan: …”I think it’s good to get the kids…