Bob Mercer seems to share my frustration with the apparent slow start to the potentially monumental 2016 Legislative Session. Legislators seem to be slow on submitting bills,…
Month: January 2016
Capping seven years of Obamanomics, the United States added 292,000 jobs in December. Among growing industries is health care: In December, health care employment rose by…
Before you head to Rapid City or Sioux Falls to hear Koch Brothers’ propagandist Stephanie Maier reinforce your failing sense of white privilege by telling…
New analysis from the National Association of Counties finds that more counties regained relatively healthy pre-recession levels of unemployment, economic output, and housing prices in 2015 than in 2014. However,…
…and Financial Priority on Consultants and Contractors, Not Scholarships South Dakota’s original 2005 GEAR UP grant application, posted and analyzed last week by Angela Kennecke, is chock full…
The #1 item on the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda is the opportunity to raise South Dakota teacher pay from 51st in the nation to 37th… or maybe…
Remember the awesome landing SpaceX made last month with its reusable Falcon 9 first-stage rocket? This month’s attempt was almost as successful… and almost in rocketry is bad…
Last year Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) and the Republican majority in the Legislature made the error of undoing the will of the people expressed in Initiated…
…and democracy is hard work! My friends at Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, who also pay good money to advertise on this blog, graciously allowed me to hold…
In a report on Senator Bernie Sanders’s apparent popularity among young women, USA Today quotes USD student Taryn Hogarth on her willingness to jump the gender gap for…