Speaking of campaign fundraising fakery, Rep. Kristi Noem is begging for more cash under the guise of seeking public input. She’s floating this fake survey on whether…
Month: June 2015
Dan Lederman is lying to make money. He is citing Laure Swanson’s re-election to the Aberdeen City Council as proof of his Rushmore PAC’s effectiveness at winning elections:…
I love Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. Right there, just a few blocks west of Hennepin Avenue, right south of one of the Twin Cities’ great…
The latest Dakota Free Press poll finds strong but far from unanimous support for changing the name of South Dakota’s tallest peak. Out of 156 votes cast…
Mark Walker of that Sioux Falls paper looks at a Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline report that discusses what states are doing to help ex-offenders get back into the workforce. 70…
Charles Michael Ray reports on the groundbreaking for a big new housing development and community near Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Reservation: Officials with the USDA…
South Dakota’s unemployment rate went up two ticks in May, but South Dakota is leading the region in job growth both for May 2015 and…
I like the Aberdeen paper. Its opinion pages carry some actual opinions, like Gerald Krueger’s blast this morning against the Legislature’s tinkering with the minimum wage…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students meets today in Watertown and tomorrow in Aberdeen (at each town’s Ramkota) to ask citizens to write on sticky notes their…
I woke last night to the sound of hail. According to Gordon Howie, Aberdeen must have sinned: Grapefruit sized hail battered parts of Western South Dakota.…