Opinion

The “Territory of Dakota,” with the exception of a portion of the northeast corner, was a part of “The Louisiana Territory” which was acquired from France in 1803. The path to acquiring that property was one that had many twists and turns which the politicians on all sides did not expect.

T ransfers WD; Gordon D. & Alice Miner, husband & wife, to Kylie M.

A c c o rding to Noah Webster’s American Dictionary, one of the two definitions of politics defined in the 1828 edition was, “The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.”

Committees: Chair of Health & Human Services, Executive Board, Agriculture and Natural Resources, State Affairs Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

Representatives of the beef industry - the industry that starts when live cattle raised by America’s farmers and ranchers are delivered to a packing plant for slaughter are providing testimony to Congress that all is well with the cattle market. They say cattle prices have increased in the face of short cattle supplies and this proves the marketplace is functioning just like a competitive market should.

I am a firm believer that our upbringing makes us who we are. I often talk about how I grew up on our family farm with my parents giving me impossible things to do.

Although he was still alive after being attacked by the mother grizzly bear, the condition and future for Hugh Glass seemed to be hopeless. He was so far from civilization and there was no one in the group who had more than the most basic medical knowledge. His body was in a mutilated and fragile condition. For the majority of the eighty-one members of the Henry and Ashley fur trapping party, they had never seen a man in this condition before.

On July 1, 2023, two bills will become law that ensure everyone has the right to safe and healthy sexual relationship. The state legislature passed them, and the governor signed Senate Bill 90 and 91, which defined consent and made sex without consent a felony. As defined, consent is a person’s positive cooperation in act or attitude pursuant to the person’s exercise of free will. South Dakota was one of twenty-five states with no definition of consent in their state laws prior to the passage of these bills.

The Gregory County Farm Service Agency will be conducting a signup for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) to address damage caused to fences by the heavy snowfall of the 20222023 winter. The signup will begin June 20, 2023, and run until July 20, 2023.

DITOR Dear Editor, The landowners in Gregory and Charles Mix counties affected by the Gregory Co. Pumped Storage project received a letter dated May 23, 2023, stating that MidAmerican and MRES have decided not to pursue the project “at this time” and have applied to FERC to surrender their permit application which remained in effect until June 30, 2023. They stated the project was terminated due to financial reasons and market value fluctuations. They also stated “landowner opposition” had nothing to do with their decision. Of course, we would like to think we had something to do with the termination, but we’ll probably never know.