Laurie Cox couldn’t believe her ears when she heard Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently admit that a pipeline was the best way to transport oil across the country. Of course, Cox knew it was true. She, like so many other South Dakotans whom the Washington Examiner spoke to, is acutely aware of the benefits of […]

A pastor and a girls high school basketball coach were among 79 men arrested in a weeklong human trafficking sting in Florida, authorities said. “Operation Takedown” began on March 30 and concluded on April 9, ahead of WrestleMania 37 in Tampa. Undercover detectives posed as children in chat rooms, near hotels, and walked the streets […]

In one of his first acts as commander in chief, President Biden stopped construction of the $8 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline. In the fourth part of this series, “Pipe Dreams Lost,” the Washington Examiner reports on how South Dakotans are refusing to give up the fight, appealing to their local lawmakers and even Biden […]

MIDLAND, South Dakota — On the day President Biden was inaugurated in Washington, D.C., Laurie Cox wept. They weren’t tears of joy. News had spread that morning that the incoming president would be pulling the plug on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. For Cox, the owner of the two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, South Dakota, […]