Four East River Republicans want more government and more taxes, in the form of new taxes imposed by a new water project district around Lakes…
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Sometimes the Legislature won’t even spend other people’s money. Senate Bill 156, Senator Helene Duhamel’s (R-32/Rapid City) proposal to spend $100 million in ARPA Biden…
The House of Representatives gets a chance today to spend another chunk of that federal assistance South Dakota got to survive the pandemic. On today’s…
While gallivanting around Washington, D.C., last week, Kristi Noem endorsed Calvin Coolidge’s century-old assertion that South Dakota has “meager resources”. But we’re not short on…
The Fort Randall Dam flooded over 34 square miles of Yankton Sioux reservation land and forced 136 Indian families off their home land. Now a…
U.S. Highway 81 just south of Arlington is open again. After spending $8.3 million on what we’d hoped would be a $4-million project (but hey,…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting buries the lead in Joshua Haiar’s story of the merger of the Upper Big Sioux Watershed Project into the Northeast Glacial Lakes…
South Dakota School of Mines chemical environmental scientist Dr. Maryam Amouamouha may have South Dakota’s next big thing: a water filter that replaces septic systems! Dr.…
In another dose of denial about agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment, the Brown County Commission deflects concerns raised by a constituent about agriculture polluting…
Socialism will keep Madison wet. We taxpayers will grace Halme Construction of Lake Norden with $16.5 million to lay 16 miles of 16-inch PVC pipe to…