The commentariat went ape last fall when I said Watertown should stop dressing up its kids as Indians for homecoming. Now Stu Whitney can catch heck from…
Month: September 2015
The state is moving quickly to shut down the gravy train that Mid-Central Educational Cooperative appears to have created with its contract to run the GEAR UP…
MCEC Business Manager Said Federal Audit “Favorable” Week Before State Canceled Contract KELO-TV reported last night that Scott Westerhuis, the Platte man whom Attorney General Marty…
Sioux Falls city councilor Christine Erickson is spoiling for a fight: The Sioux Falls economy is losing millions of dollars by not allowing Mixed Martial Arts…
The Pennington County Democratic Party is taking a stand for indigenous rights over colonialism. In a resolution passed at their Tuesday meeting, the Pennington County…
South Dakota Farmers Union (which is currently paying me money to circulate a petition) brought a big crew to Congress last week for its annual D.C. Fly-In to…
While a tragic housefire turns into a murder-suicide and a possible scandal involving federal money and South Dakota’s Republican education establishment, folks at Dakota War College have…
Let Pat piddle around with the Ashley Madison database—if you want to crunch some real numbers and names of public interest, dig through the minutes of Mid-Central Educational…
Here’s something else John Thune isn’t getting done in the Senate: Perkins Loans. This financial aid program provides $1.2 billion in low-interest loans to over half a…
In addition to calling for more gravy for marketers, the Sioux Falls Area Strategic Workforce Action Agenda also says a few things about education—er, “talent development”.…