Governor Dennis Daugaard writes veto letters explaining why he rejects a handful of bills from the Legislature, but he usually doesn’t provide signing letters telling…
Month: April 2015
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack took to the press last week to criticize the House Republican plan to turn the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in block grants,…
Fellow English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton steps to the mic with the shockingly high numbers of youth suicide attempts on Pine Ridge: Between December 1…
While the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students gears up to reinvent the wheel, Ellendale (ND) superintendent Jeff Fastnacht reminds us of the main cause of…
Larry Pressler is worried that the dominance of the two-party system is bad for America. My Republican blog neighbor John Tsitrian thinks we don’t even have a…
A new report finds that Minnesota is bucking a national trend of increasingly regressive taxation. From 2013 to 2015, Minnesota has led a small minority of…
In the We’re All Gonna Die Department, Beadle County brings us bird flu: The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has confirmed avian influenza in…
One misconception about Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage, came up yesterday in my conversation with Rick Knobe on KSOO Viewpoint University. As we discussed our…
Whatever puts KELO-TV at the top of the local news ratings, it’s not consistent, informative journalism. Consider last night’s filler about Mayor Mike Huether’s meeting with…
My local paper certainly thinks Brown County Commissioner Tom Fischbach had a good idea. Last September, he alerted his fellow commissioners to the fact that Joop…