The Water Management Board is hearing TC Energy/TransCanada’s request for a permit to draw water for the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil…
Tag: South Dakota
In response to some baseless Twitter clickbait counterfactually claiming Brookings is the worst city in South Dakota (Instragram is not a source, ever), I notice…
If we can get that corn out of the ground, maybe we can get Egypt to buy it! Rookie Representative Michael Saba (D-9/Hartford), who speaks…
South Dakota’s harvest is proceeding slowly. According to the latest stats from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USD of A, as of Sunday,…
Never mind my suggestion of budget optimism at the bottom of my STAR Academy post yesterday; according to information presented at yesterday’s meeting of Governor…
An eager reader suggests I look up the statutes on dissolving a political party. Nothing goes better with breakfast than reading South Dakota Codified Law,…
The United States has a population of 327,000,000. It has 3,142 counties (or parishes, independent cities, or other equivalents). That’s a nationwide average of 104,000…
A friend of the blog from Brookings County received a call purporting to be from Milbank yesterday evening. His phone flagged the number as likely…
Donald Trump can’t get anything done. He was supposedly eager to promote work requirements for Medicaid. South Dakota applied to pilot just such a work…
A rainy, grey, chilly Saturday appears to have taken a big bite out of State Fair attendance this year. The Department of Agriculture reports the…