New transmission line would increase capacity
A new electrical transmission line may be coming to the horizon near you.
S.D. ag land assessments jump as much as 25 percent—but they could be even higher
Many S.D. landowners likely noticed a significant bump on the valuation of their land in the 2013 tax assessments that arrived in their mailboxes in early March.
FiredUp: Learning to wave, South Dakota-style
People from rural towns always have the impression that people from the big cities are “unfriendly” because we rarely (if ever) wave to strangers as we drive down the highway.
FiredUp: Why is S.D. Department of Labor focused on “top cities”?
See if you can see what bothered me in the first two graphs of the press release that the S.D. Department of Labor released on Tuesday.
Start the new year with a green idea: Recycle your Christmas tree
The real Christmas trees that added special magic to this year’s holiday season can now find a second purpose by recycling, says SDSU Extension Forestry Specialist John Ball during a recent iGrow Radio Network Interview.
Share a great winter photo!
Winter officially starts Dec. 21, and we’d like to note that with a new photo to serve as the background image on Dakotafire.net.
Population trends affect housing in South Dakota
Few houses are being built or in the rural areas of the state where depopulation is happening, according to Sid Goss of the S.D. School of Mines.
State senator tours areas hit by flood damage in 2010-11
We may be in a drought now, but the damage from two years of flooding lives on.
FiredUp: Let’s get those returnees back to small towns, not just Sioux Falls and Rapid City
Dakota Roots is a good program that could be better for the rural areas of the state if it looked beyond job openings to considering marketplace opportunities.
George McGovern gave one of his last interviews to high school student, a Dakotafire intern
Becky Froehlich, a student at Madison High School and intern for Dakotafire, talked to George McGovern as part of a class assignment in September. That interview and her reflection on it are both worth reading.