The foxes have been guarding the henhouse for forty years. Now the foxes are offering corruption reform plans. What’s wrong with this picture? Jackley said he plans…
Month: April 2016
Last fall, I spotted the first Bernie Sanders sign in an Aberdeen yard west of South Main. Last month, I saw a Donald Trump sign on…
South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
Can TransCanada ever do math right? They underestimated the risk of spills on their Keystone tar sands oil pipeline; now they’ve had to multiply up their initial estimate of…
Once we start the story, we can’t stop until we get to the end…. As reported on WNAX and this blog, the Save Farmers Union…
An statistically inclined reader analyzes the state’s numbers on the new K-12 funding package and produces this table and chart showing how the new target student-teacher ratios on which the…
Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Deutsch) insists that, if he wins reëlection to the House, he’ll bring some new and improved form of his paranoid potty bill, the anti-transgender…
The Watertown City Council is more inclined to take petition enforcement into its own hands than the Minnehaha County Auditor’s Office. As Jonathan Ellis reported last week,…
Nothing good comes from this story… other than Farmers Union members coming together, laying out the facts, resolving their differences, and getting back to work. I’m…
Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the Wisconsin primary last night. Whoo-hoo! The media will continue to remind us of the daunting delegate…