An eager reader shares a post from Minneapolis high school language arts teacher Ben MacKenzie on how to attract more teachers to K-12 education: I believe…
Month: August 2015
Rookie Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) told Ken Santema two weeks ago that she sees an imbalance of power in Pierre that favors the executive branch: Going into her…
Here’s a bill Senators Thune and Rounds should work to change. Senate Appropriations has moved a funding bill that quadruples the length of the form that taxpayers…
If the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe can turn their bowling alley into a pot-smoking hall, the Standing Rock Reservation ought to be able to grow…
You know you’re the best blog in South Dakota, don’t you? I’m paraphrasing, just a little, but honest to Gaia, a person I’d never met…
Hoorah for reason over blind parochialism! Stu Whitney doesn’t call Rep. Roger Hunt a pervert for asking for visual inspections of transgender students’ genitalia, but he does…
Listening to South Dakota Public Radio this morning, I think I heard Secretary of Education Melody Schopp say that the new K-12 social studies standards approved by…
Mendacious payday lender front-woman Lisa Furlong won’t talk to South Dakota Public Broadcasting about her fake 18%-rate-cap petition: The petition would only provide an 18 percent…
Is Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether on another power trip? Earlier this month, Mayor Huether ordered a review of the Convention and Visitors Bureau Business Improvement…
When the South Dakota Legislature created the Building South Dakota economic development fund in 2013, I responded with ambivalence: the program resulted from Democrats’ successful use of the voter…