The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has an emergency—no emergency room! Great Plains Area Indian Health Service Director Ron Cornelius informed Rosebud Sioux Tribe President William Kindle…
Month: December 2015
A commenter notices that the FY2011 GEAR UP grant award that renewed South Dakota’s multi-million dollar grant to help American Indian kids prepare for college…
Senator Mike Rounds finally gets around to addressing the blatant contradiction in his party’s post-Paris hysteria about Syrian refugees who haven’t committed any terrorist acts…
If Governor Dennis Daugaard offers to expand Medicaid in his budget address next week (and I contend that’s still a big if), he won’t do so happily.…
Pat Powers is too steeped in the propaganda demands to offer any substantive analysis of the audit Mid-Central Educational Cooperative released yesterday of its handling of…
The Black Hills Pioneer posts a list of the ten best counties in South Dakota for incoming investment, based on an index created by New York-based Smart…
Black Hills State University may be ditching its fine arts and humanities requirement for all students, but it is giving the art majors a boost. At…
The South Dakota Board of Regents heard a bad-news/good-news report on student debt at their meeting this week in Spearfish. The bad news: Average per-student debt has climbed…
So Duane Riedel and John Thune walk into a bar. Duane Riedel, the former chairman of the Brown County Republican Party, says, “Dagnabit, If things need to…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative lawyer Scott Swier sends to the media the forensic audit of MCEC conducted by Eide Bailly. Swier accompanies this audit with a press release…