Two eager readers provide a serendipitous juxtaposition of articles on handouts. A Republican friend sends me Matt Bruenig’s “Case Against Free College” from the New Republic. Supposing and…
Month: October 2015
So I’m biking home and I see a dusty cloud rising above the sylvan Aberdeen skyline. What the heck is that? In a minute, I’m biking through…
The payday lenders must be scared. As if circulating their fake 18%-rate-cap petition and hiring out-of-state mercenaries to “block” South Dakota petition circulators isn’t enough, Lisa Furlong’s payday-lender…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…
We have the chance to hear the first substantive debate of the 2016 Presidential election on Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. Central, 7 p.m.…
The Board of Regents heard a proposal this week from South Dakota State University to charge every student a food facility fee. Let’s call it the…
Not flip-flopping on TPP: Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Factory Farming Agriculture. In March, Secretary Lentsch said the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be great for South Dakota ag…
Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…
Then again, sometimes talk at the local level isn’t enough to ensure fair treatment of American Indians. Last year, American Indian advocates reached a favorable settlement of the Wandering…
While our Governor waits for someone else to pay for Medicaid expansion and lets a useful social service program die, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shows us how…