Governor Kristi Noem’s big-government spending on rural broadband won’t be enough to save small towns from rural decline. We all know that if you want…
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In her State of the State Address Tuesday, after vowing absolutely not to raise taxes, Governor Kristi Noem led off her list of things she…
Governor Kristi Noem addressed the South Dakota Legislature this afternoon. Several of her words deserve highlighting. (All quotes come from the transcript Governor Noem provided…
Dr. Joseph Bottum told Lori Walsh on South Dakota Public Broadcasting this noon that Hoven, Blunt, Highmore, and other South Dakota farm towns are mostly…
Missouri voters turned out Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, but they voted to increase their minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023. Missouri and Utah…
Frequent commenter Debbo recently shared with me this Minneapolis Star-Tribune article on retiring Minnesota Chamber of Commerce official Bill Blazar, who says immigrants are vital to…
Infrastructure should have been one of the easiest things on Donald Trump’s agenda to achieve. We need roads and bridges fixed now. Democrats were eager…
You’d think rural America would see the harm done by Trump’s tariffs, his slow and only election-motivated backing of ethanol, and his lazy ignorance of…
What prize did South Dakota get for refusing to expand Medicaid and become pawns to Barack Obama’s Marxist-Muslim plot to destroy America? Only the highest rate…
Two podcasts in a row? Don’t get used to it—audio still takes more time to edit than text and links! Last week I pulled a…