An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for recently re-elected Rep. Travis Ismay, R-Newell, on the felony charge of intentional damage to a highway. Around the same time as the indictment alleges Ismay damaged the highway, an individual allegedly used a road grader, without authorization, to grade a portion of Wilson Road, near Belle Fourche, Dwayne Heidrich, who was Butte County highway supervisor at the time of the incident, said. Fred Lamphere, Butte County sheriff, did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Under South Dakota law, “a sentence of imprisonment in a state correctional facility for any term suspends the right of the person so sentenced to hold public office” However, if found guilty and fined, state law would not prevent Ismay from serving in office. Ismay won the District 28B house seat June 2 with 55% of the vote. He beat Larry Schmoltz in the race. [Felony arrest warrant issued for state Rep. Travis Ismay]
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Earth hater Salamun wants gubernatorial debate
Fact is: the South Dakota Republican Party thrives on violence and Rapid City's law enforcement industry is run by a bunch of racists.
It would be cool to see a head-to-head debate between @TobyForSD and @LarryRhodenSD right here in Rapid City ahead of the July 28 runoff.
— Jason Salamun (@JasonSalamun) June 9, 2026
The people deserve to hear their visions for South Dakota and plans on public safety, property taxes, the economy, and more.
Gentlemen,…
6/9/26
SD Earth haters introducing invasive species into Black Hills streams
To do this, a net was placed in a shallow area of the creek to prevent fish from escaping downstream. The team starts 100 yards downstream and walks upstream. Every fish is netted and a fin is clipped so that in the future, people know that it had previously been caught and migrated to other areas of the study zone. All the fish in the first 2 transplants he participated in recently swam away on their own. A sampling of Rapid Creek fish later this summer will help determine how many fish have survived. [GF&P transplanting brown trout from Spearfish to Rapid Creek]
6/7/26
NM Earth haters now supporting government buyouts of private land
Southern and southeastern New Mexico is home to many descendants of the Confederacy who back a convicted Republican felon as unitary executive and are quick to point fingers at the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for wildfires. So, Earth haters funded by the Koch and DeVos cabals through Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund and scattered in the American West derailed President Joe Biden's America the Beautiful Initiative. Herr Trump's Interior secretaries blame wildfires in the West on “radical environmentalists” despite most acres burn on private ranch land in Republican counties.
Today, the Seven Cabins Fire in the Capitan Mountain Wilderness has burned some 32,000 acres and is still growing but the fire itself isn't the only hazard because flooding can compound the threats to recovery.
With help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lincoln County is offering to purchase at-risk properties at pre-damage rates and demolish or relocate the houses, permanently converting the land into open space to act as a buffer against future floods. With $235 million in funding secured, officials hope to buy some 400 properties from willing sellers — a proposal that could dramatically reshape the 8,000-person town. Ruidoso is a conservative place, not one where you’d expect leaders to welcome what some Facebook commenters have deemed a government “land grab.” Now, Ruidoso’s mayor estimates that recovery could cost a billion dollars. Even with tens of millions promised in federal aid, it didn’t seem responsible, fiscally or otherwise, to keep rebuilding in areas that would flood again and again. [Lincoln County, New Mexico, wants to turn flood-prone properties into public land]