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Writer, lawyer and consultant with over thirty years of writing and photography experience.
While my areas of writing expertise include history, travel, politics, foreign affairs, aviation, the environment and law, I believe a good writer should, with enough research, be able to write about anything.
Good writing is good writing.
A hazardous materials trailer caught fire and fireworks exploded in another fiery truck on Friday, as a massive fatal pileup of 150 vehicles in icy conditions shut down a major interstate in southern Michigan. At least one person died, 10 were injured and six cars and semi-trailers caught fire in the pile-up about 10 miles east of Kalamazoo, Michigan State Police spokesman Lt.
That’s the advice of Curtis Stillwell at the Grass Pad, a nursery stock, seed, sod and wild bird enthusiast store in Olathe, Kansas. “Just get off your butt and do it,” he jokes. “It’s not rocket science. You can buy a small hanging feeder and a 10 pound bag of wild birdseed for less than $10. Start small and sees who shows up.”.
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Jan 8 (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold that gripped the U.S. East and Midwest on Thursday snarled travel, shut schools, filled homeless shelters and even led to zoo penguins being ordered inside.
Snow expected to accumulate to 3 feet (1 metre) deep was falling in upstate New York near Watertown, and snow already blanketing South Dakota was whipped by winds into a "ground blizzard" that made driving treacherous, said meteorologist Dan Petersen of the National Weather Service.
(Reuters) - Heavier than expected snow snarled traffic in Washington on Tuesday, forcing Attorney General Eric Holder to cancel a trip to New York for the funeral of former Governor Mario Cuomo, while the U.S. Midwest prepared for brutal cold. The Washington region got up to 5 inches of snow, well above initial forecasts.
SIOUX FALLS — Former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, responded to Democratic opponent Rick's Weiland's opposition to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline Saturday.
The line would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to the United States Gulf Coast.
Rounds said he supports the pipeline.
Some South Dakota communities are in or near what one environmental group calls the “blast zones” of railroads that carry oil shipments from North Dakota and Canada.
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The group ForestEthics has put together a searchable map at explosive-crude-by-rail.org based on federal Department of Transportation and other information that shows if residents of a certain ZIP code area are in an oil train evacuation zone or impact zone.
South Dakota has the 10th highest number of acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program since 2009, according to statistics released Tuesday by the U.S Department of Agriculture. In all, since 2009, 516,350 acres in South Dakota have been enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program through 10,507 contracts.
Minnesota is energy efficient. South Dakota, not so much, according to a new report on the most and least energy efficient states. South Dakota tied with Mississippi and Alaska as the 47th most efficient — or third least efficient — states. Neighboring Minnesota nearly cracked the top 10 as the 11th most efficient state, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
(NPN) – Though one of the most agriculture-dependent states in the nation, South Dakota is among a group of states that have the lowest percentage of schools participating in farm-to-school activities, according a new USDA report. Twenty-four percent of South Dakota school districts that reported to the USDA said they had some sort of farm-to-school ...
Most of South Dakota has seen a frost this fall, including a killer frost, according to the High Plains Region Climate Center in Lincoln, Neb. Sioux Falls saw its first frost of 32 degrees or lower and a killer frost of 28 degrees or lower on Oct. 13. The average date for a killer frost in Sioux Falls is Oct. 8 and Sept. 30 for a non-killer frost.
(NPN) – Most of South Dakota has seen a frost this fall, including a killer frost, according to the High Plains Region Climate Center in Lincoln, Neb. Sioux Falls saw its first frost of 32 degrees or lower and a killer frost of 28 degrees or lower on Oct. 13. The average date for a killer frost in Sioux Falls is Oct. 8 and Sept. 30 for a non-killer frost, according to HPRCC.
Recent snow and rains greatly improved South Dakota’s drought situation. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, heavy and record-setting precipitation fell this past week in the High Plains Region. In South Dakota, a blizzard set several snowfall records, including in Rapid City, which had a snowfall measurement of 23.1 inches over a two-day span.
(NPN) – Though it was way too much of a good thing, recent snow and rains greatly improved South Dakota’s drought situation. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, heavy and record setting precipitation fell this past week in the High Plains Region. In South Dakota, a blizzard set several snowfall records, including in Rapid City, which had a snowfall measurement of 23.1 ...
The chances of hitting a deer while on South Dakota’s roads have decreased but are still high compared to the rest of the United States, according to a new report from automobile insurer State Farm. South Dakota dropped from the third highest to the fourth highest rate of deer-vehicle collisions nationally.