On November 20, 2013, I reported that Joop Bollen had run an unlicensed bank and dodged the bank franchise tax in the course of South Dakota’s…
Month: March 2015
I made a fair effort to use the state’s new Real Wage Calculator to demonstrate how much purchasing power teachers sacrifice to stay in South Dakota.…
Dr. Tim Mitchell superintends a school district with a student body the size of the entire town of Pierre and a staff (teachers, sweepers, everybody) the…
I dispute the assertion of my blogospheric counterweight Mr. Powers that President Obama and the EPA are waging a “war on coal.” However, even if we ascribed…
The Aberdeen American News posts some encouragement for South Dakotans who want to refer the new youth minimum wage to a public vote: The paper’s unscientific poll gets…
Dr. Tim Mitchell, superintendent of the Rapid City Area Schools, addressed the Black Hills Forum and Press Club this noon in Rapid City. The main…
The Muslim Community Center in Sioux Falls is expanding, Muslims are praying at the Sioux Falls airport, and ISIS has included an Ellsworth AFB soldier on…
Shantel Krebs sent me not one but two letters yesterday. I feel all tingly: The efforts to refer Senate Bill 69 (the petition “reform” bill that…
If you love love, and if you love marriage, you might want to come to Mount Rushmore on September 6, 2015. Nancy and Jennie Robrahn—you…
One white man from Philip faces trial for allegedly throwing beer and racist insults at Lakota children. Another white man from Philip tries to put on those children’s…