My neighbor Joe Berns offered a solid critique last week of the Koch Brothers’ flunkies’ claims that American capitalism works great for everybody. New Harvard…
Month: June 2017
The nonmeandered waters legislation passed in yesterday’s special session of the Legislature is so bad— —how bad is it?— —it’s so bad that the biggest…
I heard during the votes this afternoon that Senators Jenna Haggar Netherton and Deb Peters and Representatives Craig Tieszen and Lynne DiSanto are excused from…
As if to underscore David Newquist’s point about his pathological lying, Donald Trump made the following false statement at the opening of what he called…
The Department of Education provides this awesome chart plotting the English and math proficiency rates of every school—not just school district, but school building—that had…
The Aberdeen Public Library gets a $35K grant from the Knight Foundation in its “Knight Cities Challenge” to create “The A Place,” a facility “opening a…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in special session today in Pierre to deal with the issue of nonmeandered waters, the lakes over private lands that…
University of Minnesota political scientist Eric Ostermeier casts an occasional pessimistic glance at South Dakota Democrats (and so far, we haven’t done much to defy his…
With Aberdeen’s new library set to open on September 11, we have to figure out what to do with the old one on Sixth Avenue…
I say this same thing every time Dr. David Newquist puts up a new blog post: he doesn’t write much, but when he does, his…