The call for a special session, whether to rehash Common Core or discuss genuine K-12 funding policies, will likely fail. If you want to talk K-12 funding, you’ll have to…
Month: July 2015
O.K., I’ve finally gotten around to viewing the videos of the press conference Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) and other legislators held in Rapid City on…
Michael Larson rightly points out Senator M. Michael Rounds’s hypocrisy on education policy. Hearing Rounds pat himself on the back for voting for an education bill by…
A new sponsor joins the Dakota Free Press roster this morning. Despite my teetotaling tendencies, the Sioux Falls chapter of Drinking Liberally invites you to join them…
Speaking of O.J., I learn from perusing Rosebud Sioux Tribe Channel 93 that candidate for Rosebud Sioux Council President O.J. Semans includes marijuana in his economic development…
The worst abuse I’ve had to put up with recently came from the recycled fabrications Annette Bosworth’s losing legal team put on the record about me during her…
Bob Mercer dedicates his his weekend column to cataloguing the dozen ballot measures we may get to vote on next year (listing eleven, Mercer doesn’t mention Rick Weiland’s…
John Tsitrian thinks the South Dakota Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act, coming soon to a petition near you, is a good idea. The Rapid City blogger says…
Onward Yankton has announced the fifteen semifinalists in its contest to discover Yankton’s next big idea. The local development brainstorming initiative received 508 submissions from around the…
Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…