I just heard SDPB’s Lori Walsh remark on air that when three state officials show up to her studio to talk about preventing suicide, we…
Tag: science
Wind power is cheaper, more reliable, and less harmful than coal-generated power. Danish MP Ida Auken shows how to package those facts in a wonderful…
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…
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…