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KW sez a protected endangered wolf was killed near Custer: Brad Merrill, a special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in Pierre, said that he couldn't discuss specifics of the incident, which remains under investigation. Merrill said wolves are still protected in most area s, including western South Dakota. And the gray wolf is on the state list of rare, threatened or enda...
interested party - 7:04 a.m. - 9 clicks 
ip is blocked from dissent. The apologist for the SDGOP purged all dissenting comments from Pure Pierre Politburo . Rep. Justin Cronin (earth hater-23), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member is pushing a bill that represents a chilling effect on tribal sovereignty . The Koch wing of the earth hater party is stoking the coming race war . Custer County is having a war of wordlessness w...
interested party - Thu 9:07 a.m. - 10 clicks
If you missed the last Moyers and Company show on public TV, you can view the show on banking writing the rules. Moyer and Company: Bankers Writing the Rules. Interesting video from around 1999 with Sen. Tim Johnson pandering to the banking industry and Sen. Byron Dorgen of North Dakota correctly predicting the economic devastation that resulted as a consequence......
Dakota Today - Tue 6:03 p.m. - 13 clicks
This afternoon, SDPB-TV carried coverage of the SD Senate today when they killed a resolution supporting postal service in South Dakota, and passed a resolution urging instruction in the bible as literature to be an elective in SD Public Schools. Those who think there is a deity, ought to be forced to produce objectiveproof of such existence before dragging their......
Dakota Today - Mon 7:27 p.m. - 16 clicks
Update, 31 January: Colstrip benefits PPL Montana investors at the expense of the facts . Indiana coal expansion would destroy bat habitat . --------------------- The Boston Globe collected 48 photos that brings it all home. Former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian Party candidate for president, Gary Johnson , called for repeal of the 'Patriot Act' at ACLU speech. The GOP ...
interested party - Mon 12:44 p.m. - 2 clicks
A couple of sentences from an editorial in the Rapid City Journal typifies what has become a cliche: " We can support an initiative that rewards good teachers and roots out poor ones. School districts need a way to get rid of poor teachers, and if ending tenure helps accomplish this, it will be a welcome change." The current wisdom is that our public schools are impeded by a horde of ...
Northern Valley Beacon - Sun 8:04 a.m. - 15 clicks
Update, 31 January: @DBleizeffer Dustin Bleizeffer, Pavillion study upheld by independent research group. ----------------- Sioux Falls ALEC legislator, Lora Hubbel is calling for the gang rape of South Dakota aquifers and watersheds according to the Argus Leader : In a draft report, which the industry disputes, the Environmental Protection Agency linked groundwater contamination in the ...
interested party - Sun 7:26 a.m. - 17 clicks
South Dakotans are being beset with ideas to again replace the existing South Dakota flag. I have seen the proposed flag and think it looks like a design for a bag of dogfood or hogfeed. Newspapers have examples of good and bad flags compliments of sites like those immediately following: Flag Survey of North American Flags and NAVA Flag Design......
Dakota Today - Jan 27 - 18 clicks
US House candidates in Montana, Democrats Franke Wilmer , Dave Strohmaier , and Kim Gillan are embracing our party's platform and leaders. In South Dakota, one Democrat is running his US House primary campaign in South Dakota while ignoring his President. Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth posted comments at Madville Times that suggest that he intends to court voters outside our p...
interested party - Jan 24 - 5 clicks
I've smoked pot with Mark Venner. The Venner family corporation receives ag subsidies , test it: isn't it a person? Every ag producer should have to test to receive federal help. Rapid City lawgiver and weed smoker, Mark Kirkeby, says he will introduce legislation that would require testing for substances not yet legal under federal law before receiving public assistance. The Noem corporation ...
interested party - Jan 16
I have added a blog as an experiment. I hope it can become something like an online magazine with longer posts more like magazine articles or opinion pieces by multiple authors. If you are interested, let me know.. Use the foxynotes option to right. It is a more or less blank slate right now. South Dakota Raucus Caucus Stay......
Dakota Today - Jan 14 - 2 clicks
With all the hype about Republican Bill Janklow dying of brain cancer and all the compliments to his ability and extraordinary skill in making appointments by those he appointed, the passing of a classic good-old Democrat will probably get little attention. But check the obituary in this post continuation for the Rapid City Journal obituary of Jack M. Weiland. Jack......
Dakota Today - Jan 13
Chris Hedges addresses my conscience. He was on C-Span for three hours Saturday morning where I saw him sporadically as I, in my role of treasurer, tried to fulfill the financial needs of the Snow Queen Festival being held in Aberdeen this weekend and next. The young people participating in the festival break my calloused, old heart. Chris Hedges reminds me of why.&nb...
Northern Valley Beacon - Jan 10 - 2 clicks
Of all the South Dakota public radio Midday noon interviews, Janklow's rant against the core of engineers and his attempt to rewrite history and the weather, this must be one of the worst they could find to rerun. But, rerun it they did this noon December 27, 2011. Janklow uses his usual diversions with expressions like "everybody knew" except perhaps......
Dakota Today - Dec 27
About 40 years ago here in rural Tripp County South Dakota, the only phones available were party line phones. Some of these had 8 families using them on a first-come first- served basis. These phones made sure gossip spread mighty fast, but if one of the old yakking forever redundantly ladies got on, it was faster to drive 8 miles......
Dakota Today - Dec 22
John Thune selects a coat-tail to ride on. John Thune is a sock puppet extraordinaire. He has the intellectual endowments and the moral compass of a night crawler, but, by God, he catches fish. You know, suckers, those bottom-dwellers who bite on anything. Obviously, I do not have much regard for John Thune as a person. But I guess if John Thune lays a claim for pe...
Northern Valley Beacon - Dec 20
A few weeks ago I got a call from a Wall Street Journal Reporter writing a story on the proposed AT&T takeover/merger with T-Mobile. He had seen my comments at this Dakota Today Blog and Bob Schwartz's Blog Great Plains Technology and other online stories in South Dakota newspapers and said he was following up on the results of the......
Dakota Today - Nov 28
I am not much of a movie watcher and don't much keep up on them, but I am going to give a free plug to a movie which will be in Rapid City very soon for only one showing. A short review is below: Thanks to Greg Olson for the heads up on this. Nov. film “Inside Job” Elks Theatre,......
Dakota Today - Nov 22
