Why didn’t Governor Dennis Daugaard pick Mobridge-Pollock Superintendent Tim Frederick for the Blue Ribbon K-12 task force? Superintendent Frederick knows the answer to South Dakota’s teacher shortage: pay teachers…
Month: June 2015
Back in 2013, I cheered when mostly bumbling Secretary of State Jason Gant said he was going to spend a $680K federal grant on the iOASIS…
John Tsitrian is rightly disappointed with Brendan Johnson. Our former U.S. Attorney spoke Friday to the Black Hills Forum and Press Club in Rapid City. Like many…
When conservatives have disagreed with Barack Obama’s policies, they have tried to beat him at the polls and in the courts (they have generally failed). When conservatives have disagreed…
Southern leaders are finally showing the courage to reject the traitor flag of the Confederacy, but South Dakota’s pols responding to the Supreme Court’s affirmation of…
In a week consisting mostly of responding to remarkable political news with regurgitated press releases from its patrons instead of any original analysis, Dakota War College limps forward with a question about…
Convicted felon Annette Bosworth is scheduled to receive her sentence at the Hughes County Courthouse next week. Bosworth’s twelve Class 6 felony counts carry a total maximum…
I noted Wednesday that South Dakota’s minimum-wage increase appears not to be hurting job creation. Swedish furniture and meatball retailer Ikea is having the same experience. Last…
A school administrator at one of the Blue Ribbon K-12 funding meetings in Aberdeen Tuesday said that South Dakotans won’t support major funding increases around the idea that teachers…