What Jeff Broin’s money couldn’t achieve, the economy apparently has. Regional pork producer Wholestone Farms announced two years ago that it would spend $500 million to…
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Jeff Broin’s $1.1 million dollars didn’t buy enough votes to stop Wholestone Farms from stinking up his neighborhood with a new slaughterhouse. The proposed moratorium on…
Jeff Broin’s brother put $10,000 into Smart Growth Sioux Falls’ campaign for a ballot initiative to block the construction of Wholestone Farms’ pork slaughterhouse downwind…
I struggle to endorse a campaign that uses incorrect grammar: “Less stench… less water pollution… less slaughterhouses”? I know: the ad would lack the impact…
Oh, wait: I guess we can apply laws before they go into effect. SDPB reports that judge has revoked all of the permits the City…
Smithfield Foods says it has no position on the slaughterhouse ban that some well-to-do Sioux Falls residents have placed on the city’s November ballot in…
On September 20, Christine Erickson, president of the South Dakota Trucking Association, and Lorin Pankratz, lobbyist for the South Dakota Pork Producers Council, organized “Sioux…
The United States Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws: we can’t pass laws today that punish people for actions they performed legally yesterday. The City of Sioux…
Sioux Falls—Wieners for the World! Trevor Mitchell does some math and says doubling Sioux Falls’s slaughterhouses could lead to nearly one tenth of America’s pork…