If raising boring old regressive sales tax a half-percentage point to lift our teacher pay from 51st to 45th in the nation is being bold,…
Month: March 2016
The Tri-Valley School Board will meet on April 11 to give second reading to its proposed school gunslinger policy. If the Tri-Valley board won’t believe my contention…
The American Indian Institute for Innovation is getting $455,000 from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to run the Takini school. But not for long: We’ve learned…
South Dakota’s Republican Presidential delegates who are willing to express a preference rebuffed a pitch from a John Kasich campaigner at their March 19 caucus and uniformly…
Yesterday I suggested the ongoing job creation of the Obama recovery could tamp down the Trump vote. Obviously I need to read more Internet. Trump voters are…
Following up on a 2015 Human Rights Watch report alleging massive corruption on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General…
Megan Raposa’s story this morning on the Sly Amendment to the new Senate Bill 131 K-12 funding formula gets one thing right: Raposa uses Senator Bille Sutton’s…
All right, now that I’ve Heimliched that Trump blockage, let’s look at what Sioux Falls house painter and hovercraft impresario Reginald Poppenga has to say about Amendment…
I am pleased to see Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal, get national attention in the Wall Street Journal. But I almost can’t get past this line: “It…
While South Dakota’s Republicans use stealth vouchers to undermine public education and line the pockets of their friends in the insurance industry, Arizona Senator John McCain…