Back to civics class: 10 things to know about Standing Rock

Posted by on Nov 30, 2016 @ 11:50 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: November 29, 2016

What writers don’t know about the world outweighs what we do know by a ratio of 100-1, at best. We get away with reporting the news as if we know something because, as Mark Twain noted, we do the legwork, we interview the colorful suspects, and we buy ink by the barrel. Then comes a sudden, confounding event like the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy at the Hunkpapa...

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