New Board of Regents exec Paul Beran sounds like he’s ready to acquiesce to our cheapskate Legislature and keep the burden for funding higher ed…
Month: July 2018
Agropur plans to pump two million gallons of its cheese-plant wastewater into the Big Sioux River. The main health concern from that water is its…
A lot of chatter about accused Russian spy Maria Butina has likened her to Jennifer Lawrence’s titular Red Sparrow character. But that’s too easy a nickname.…
Farm Forum editor Stan Wise is glad the Trump Administration is making taxpayers shell out welfare for farmers to pay for the trade war, but……
The Commerce Department just announced that U.S. gross domestic product grew in our second quarter by 4.1%, the strongest rate since 2014. In other words,…
If you’re coming to Aberdeen from anywhere east in August (like for the Brown County Fair!), you might want to come up 281. Bob Mercer…
The Displaced Plainsman gleefully (I enjoy picturing the Plainsman gleeful) comments on new USD president Sheila Gestring’s welcome defense of liberal arts education as a…
I’m a text guy. I don’t listen to many podcasts. It thus takes an eager reader/listener to point out this curious clip from Dusty Johnson’s…
District 3 Democrats will be increasing the barbecue quotient in Aberdeen Saturday. District 3 House candidates Justin Roemmick and Brooks Briscoe will join me, District…
Special Session! Special Session! Chief of staff Tony Venhuizen is telling the press that his boss, Governor Dennis Daugaard, is considering convening the Legislature to…