The vacant lots are owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a powerful federal agency that builds and manages infrastructure across the country, including on and along waterways. Fort Pierre’s downtown and main residential district are located to the north of the confluence of the Missouri and Bad rivers, which makes the city prone to significant flooding every few years. After the two rivers swelled in the late 1990s, washing out residential neighborhoods and damaging homes on the city's northeast side, the Corps bought 44 lots as part of a long-range flood control project. The Corps also owns 61 properties that it purchased in 2006 in the city limits of Pierre, mostly in a flood-prone area of the city's south side near the Izaak Walton League building along the banks of the Missouri River.Read it all here.
3/9/26
Corps thwarts more insurance fraud on Missouri River
Recall South Dakota's quisling Earth hating former governor Mike Rounds built a house in a swamp that flooded then received a generous self-reimbursement from insurance coverage underwritten by his own company knowing Lake Sharpe is filling with silt. He's been blaming the US Army Corps of Engineers for that fraud ever since and is now trying to overcome his lack of effectiveness in the US Senate. But the closest Reich Mike Rounds ever got to military service is acting as commander-in-chief of South Dakota's National Guard. South Dakota's short guy junior US Senator is also leading a crusade to block the US Environmental Protection Agency from identifying non-point sources of pollution deposited into watersheds by his GOP donors.
3/8/26
Demomentum!
Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵 Democrat: 50% 🔴 Republican: 44% Hart/Public Opinion / March 3, 2026
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Generic Ballot Among Hispanics: 🔵 DEM: 60% 🔴 GOP: 29% Morning Consult / March 1, 2026
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Generic Ballot Polling: DEM: 47% GOP: 42% Morning Consult / March 1, 2026
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3/7/26
Olson on Mrs. Noem
Yes, the grassland fire danger index will be in the ozone again Saturday and Sunday for much of the horrible red state of South Dakota.
So, brass tacks. It wasn't a forgotten "blanket" that precipitated the Corey Lewandowski firing and rehiring of a personal pilot, midflight. It was a bag of sex toys and fornication accessories AND a blanket that presumably carried the DNA evidence of the Kristi-Corey tryst bonanza that had carried on, mostly unabated since CPAC 2019.Everyone knew about it, including husband Bryon. And those of us who knew and spoke openly about it from the earliest days, don't care two shits about your idiot defense of a woman who created a political career out of lying to her constituents, taking credit for things she never understood and openly plagiarizing intelligent outlay by analysts on complex issues (including me and mine) for the advancement of her ambitions.She couldn't even be bothered to patronize South Dakota plastic surgeons for the myriad of procedures she underwent to keep up with natural beauties that she instinctually cornered, attacked and reviled. Because she was never more than "mid" in her natural state. And she knew it.Kristi Noem is a corrupt piece of shit who doubled the state budget, ran up the state credit card for personal expense, teamed her "South Dakota Strong" PAC with the worst of the worst of the RINO herd to oppose and defeat conservative lawmakers in legislative primary races, used her office to enrich her family and continued her no-bid South Dakota contract predilections into an arena where the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Summit Carbon could no longer protect her star. God bless Senator John Kennedy for stripping her more naked and bare than Corey Lewandowski ever could or did. Tiny boy.Her lieutenant governor is a low IQ Democrat globalist cuck in a cowboy hat and South Dakota remains the political laughingstock of the national conservative brand, preening behind "red state" Trump camouflage.Get away from me with your defenses of a woman who tried 11 times to lock down South Dakota during COVID and then took credit after the House of Representatives rebuffed her at every turn and kept the state open. Miracle beyond miracles.She's a moron. And now deprived of Corey's helmsmanship of her political brand, (which bore obvious fruit and obvious improvement in her messaging from the moment their affair began) she will inevitably revert to the tonedeaf servitude of her neoconservative roots, complete with a below water conservative voting score in the U.S. Congress, which will continue uninterrupted if she displaces Mike Rounds in the U.S. Senate. Two eggs from the same hen.And if you were fooled into joining her fanclub and considered her authentic "MAGA," you may as well have taken the vaccine. It'd be less obvious and less embarassing as a personal tell.Was Trump fooled by her sticky-schtick, or did he just give her enough national spotlight rope to hang herself?Wait until you hear what was in that bag...Only morons ever supported that Jezebel.
3/6/26
Utility pulls plug on new Montana wind farm
The cost of subsidizing, manufacturing, transporting, erecting, maintaining then removing and disposing of just one wind turbine eyesore bat and bird killer would take six hundred subscribers to energy self-reliance.
Microgrid technologies enhance tribal sovereignty, free communities from electric monopolies and net-metering only gives control back to the utilities enabled by moral hazard. And, since utilities are not your friends don’t tie your photovoltaic system to the grid but if you use it as a backup keep your own electricity completely separate from the grifter that reads your meter.
NextEra Energy is suspending its $1.85 billion Glendive Wind Project originally scheduled to break ground this year due to the company not securing customer contracts. NextEra plans on maintaining contact with local governments and landowners participating in the Glendive Wind Project as it considers the future of the project. [Glendive Ranger-Review]
3/5/26
Mormons will build McTemple in occupied Black Hills
Mormonism is not so much a religion as it is a social contract which is probably why there is so much suspicion from Calvinists since it just seems like another pyramid scheme exacting pounds of flesh while employing tax-exempt status.
Cody, Wyoming's evangelical christians and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or LDS quarreled over the erection of a pantheon there that one Cody Enterprise story respondent called a McTemple where the only thing missing is a sign out front saying "Billions Extorted." But seriously, what is the LDS church if not a white supremacist cult? Mormons are, of course, not christians at all so it's been front page news in Wyoming for years.
In 2023 LDS distributed 435 boxes of food to families on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and just recently, they bribed Feeding South Dakota in Rapid City with 40,000 pounds of food which offered some relief to hundreds of families hit hard by the Trump Organization's tariffs. Now, they're building a McTemple on a 4.86-acre lot located at the northeast corner of Mount Rushmore Road and Moon Meadows Drive south of town. The sect boasts a membership of some 12,000 souls in that failed red state.
According to one source the real owner of the former FLDS compound near Pringle is Paul Elden Kingston, a polygamist believed to have some 40 wives, over 300 kids and preaches "bleeding the beast." Kingston is an accountant and attorney who has served as the Trustee-in-Trust of the Davis County Cooperative Society (DCCS), a Mormon fundamentalist denomination and part of the Latter Day Church of Christ with assets in the $150 million range.The good news? The grassland fire danger index will reach the high and very high categories for that part of Pennington County on Thursday and Friday.
3/2/26
Mainstreet Index again below growth neutral; South Dakota floundering
Since at least 2017 Creighton University's Ernie Goss has been warning that the Trump Organization is bad for American agriculture. Goss follows the economies of several breadbasket states including South Dakota's and banksters are freaking out as the region’s overall reading for February fell to 47.9 from 52.0 in January. This marks the 12th time that the Rural Mainstreet Index has dropped below growth-neutral or 50.0 since January 2025.
According to trade data from the International Trade Association (ITA), regional exports of agriculture goods and livestock for the first 11 months of 2025, compared to the same period in 2024, fell from $11.5 billion in 2024 to $10.8 billion in 2025, for a decline of 6.6%. The February RMI for South Dakota sank to 47.2 from January’s 54.2. The state’s farm and ranchland price index fell to 45.2 from 46.3 in January. South Dakota’s February new hiring index decreased to 48.7 from 50.3 in January.Read it all here.
3/1/26
South Dakota Earth haters arm for circular firing squad
Watching these four Earth haters pounding the shit out of one another is going to be a blast!
Conservation vital to Mountain West: State of the Rockies
Even red state voters are leery of the Trump Organization's war on the West.
Results from Colorado College’s 16th annual State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll released today show widespread concern among Western voters about rollbacks of protections for land, water, and wildlife and cuts to funding for public land management.
The poll, which surveyed voters in eight Mountain West states—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—found that Western voters across party lines are prioritizing conservation, recreation, and renewables over fossil fuel development heading into this year's midterm elections.
Highlights from the Poll
● 84% of Western voters say that the rollback of laws that protect our land, water, and wildlife is a serious problem, a sharp increase from prior years.
● 85% of respondents say issues involving public lands, waters, and wildlife are important in deciding whether to support a public official.
● 86% of Western voters deem funding cuts to public lands a serious problem, including 76% of Republicans.
● 70% of respondents oppose fast-tracking oil, gas and mining projects on national public lands by reducing environmental reviews and local public input.
● 72% of Westerners prefer expanding renewable energy over drilling and mining for more fossil fuels.
● 76% of Western voters—more Western voters than ever before—say they would prefer their member of Congress to place more emphasis on conservation and recreation on public lands over maximizing energy production.
● 74% of Western voters oppose selling some national public lands for oil and gas development.
● 91% of Western voters say existing national monument designations should be kept in place.
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