Who’s excited about the Deep Borehole Field Test proposed for Spink County? Dr. Larry D. Stetler, professor of geological engineering at the South Dakota School…
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Sure enough, the Deep Borehole Field Test could come to South Dakota. The Pierce County Commission gave the project the boot from North Dakota last…
SDSU physics professor and coordinator of nuclear education (I like that job title!) Dr. Robert McTaggart is disappointed that our friends up in North Dakota…
Mr. Pay alerts us to the sinking of the borehole nuclear waste disposal test project in North Dakota and the possibility that South Dakota might get a…
Pipestone Holdings, the same folks who think it’s harassment to say that their pig poop near Mount Vernon stinks, wants to build a 9,000-hog concentrated animal feeding operation near…
I took apart Senator Jeff Monroe’s retread proposal to sneak his religion into science class when he announced his intention to retry his creationism legislation early…
A South Dakota Legislative Session can’t go by without someone grandstanding on abortion politics. Attorney General Marty Jackley offers Senate Bill 24, felonizing the already banned sale…
Remember the awesome landing SpaceX made last month with its reusable Falcon 9 first-stage rocket? This month’s attempt was almost as successful… and almost in rocketry is bad…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) thinks increasing teacher pay to address the number-one crisis in K-12 education, the teacher shortage, is dead on arrival. But he thinks the…
Two eager readers provide a serendipitous juxtaposition of articles on handouts. A Republican friend sends me Matt Bruenig’s “Case Against Free College” from the New Republic. Supposing and…