It should be another exciting day at the state Water Management Board meeting today in Pierre. At 1 p.m., the board again takes up the application from the fundamentalist (read “polygamist”)…
Month: October 2015
Faulkton voters will have their say on whether their school district should spend millions of dollars to build a new building and renovate some existing school space. AAN’s Shannon Marvel reports…
As I review the financial reports of the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, I find two seeming anomalies. MCEC includes financial position statements in nearly all of the…
Like the Benda/Bollen/GOED/EB-5 scandal before it, the Westerhuis/Melmer/MCEC/GEAR UP scandal is prompting Democrats to push for a state ethics commission. (Job #1 for such a commission:…
I feel downright dirty rebutting something Larry Kurtz says with something Pat Powers says, but here goes: The indomitable Mr. Kurtz repeats his contention that backing marijuana…
It’s final push time for initiative petitions! The organizers behind the seven initiated laws and five constitutional amendments approved for circulation by the Secretary of State have 27…
The good news is that Madison has just passed a policy that will allow energetic residents who build home energy generation systems to sell their excess power back to…
Bob Mercer sounds unimpressed with the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. In his latest blog post, he appears to dismiss the 26-member panel’s…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch thinks the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help South Dakota farmers by further opening foreign markets for our ag exports. Ag columnist…