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.
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Harrisburg, SD (Sioux Falls metro area)
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.
South Dakota is one of the few states that has no statewide ban or fine for texting while driving, according to a survey of state laws by Mother Jones magazine.
North Dakota State University is suing a Brookings business over alleged violations of the federal Plant Variety Protection Act. The lawsuit concerns “Souris,” an oat variety the university developed. Tuesday, NDSU filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls against Sexauer Discount Farm Services Inc., Jeff Muckey and “John Does 1-25,” essentially for “brown bagging.”.
South Dakota has the second highest incarceration rate of Native American men and the fourth highest rate of incarceration of Hispanic men. Those were among the findings of a recent study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee titled “Wisconsin’s Mass Incarceration of African-American Males: Workforce Challenges for 2013.”.
Regulators, attorneys general and borrowers aren’t the only ones upset with Western Sky Financial, a Native American owned online “payday” loan company.
America's "Shrine to Democracy" is in the center of a dispute over the freedom of information. The Mount Rushmore Society, the private, non-profit organization that is the national memorial's leading concessionaire and friends group, filed a complaint in federal district court in Rapid City late Friday.
Are bloggers, those pesky, pajama wearing screed writers, journalists?
In South Dakota, at least one state judge says they are.
Besides captivating the South Dakota political world last week, the State of South Dakota v. Daniel Willard misdemeanor “robo-call” trial in Madison also had the South Dakota blogosphere abuzz. Circuit Court Judge Vincent Foley ruled that blogger Pat Powers, owner of the conservative S.D. War College blog, was a journalist due to his previous reporting on the matter.
“I am of the opinion that. . .” Judge Foley is quoted, “bloggers are journalists in the modern sense of the world.”
Two tribal members have taken legal action to halt the recent referendum approving the sale and consumption of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Oglala Sioux Tribal Attorney General Tatewin Means said Wednesday that a hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 20 in Oglala Sioux Tribal Court on what she called "the equivalent" of an injunction.
Women from the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe and other groups will hold a march Saturday against alcohol at Whiteclay, according to the group Alcohol Justice. The march will begin from the four-way stop sign in Pine Ridge and continue to Whiteclay, Neb. "The whole world watches as we fight to save our nation from the mental disease of alcoholism," said activist Olowan Martinez.
On this date, Sept. 3, 1974, Sioux Falls had its earliest freeze.
An excerpt from NOAA :
SD Weather History and Trivia for September : "The earliest freeze on record in Sioux Falls occurred on September 3rd, 1974 when the morning low dipped to 31 degrees.
Uncle Sam Wants You—to take advantage of business tax breaks. But what is a tax break? In partisan fights over the federal budget this year, it sometimes sounds like a dirty word. It is not.
“The phrase ‘tax break’ is a political term used to describe deductions and/or credits and/or exemptions from tax,” said Tim Ness, owner of Ness Tax and Bookkeeping Service in Sioux Falls
and a former tax auditor with the Internal Revenue Service.
A new white paper predicts a "looming water crisis" in the American Southwest, fueled in large part by immigration population growth.
Other articles in this issue that I wrote that are included in the clipping include:
*"CA:Federal Court Invalidates Delta Water Supply Restrictions"
*"NM: Court Rulings Cast Uncertainty over State Engineer Authority"