Kristi Noem runs hot and cold on the economy. In April, she said South Dakota’s economy is “stagnant“: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth,…
Month: August 2018
We should learn not to take Donald Trump’s words seriously. Not one word from his mouth has any reliability or mooring in fact. But his…
KSOO notes the latest WalletHub calculations showing that South Dakota has the worst student debt in the nation. Adjusting for cost of living apparently helps…
Bob Mercer notes a couple of interesting documents from the state providing details on the online remote sellers’ sales tax that the United States Supreme…
G. Mark Mickelson may want to add another service to his CAFO-consulting portfolio: guidance on how to control stink, noise, and bugs so they don’t…
To correct his inexcusable misrepresentation of a segment of Aberdeen’s recent immigrants as pedophiles, Patrol Sergeant Dan Kaiser should attend the genuinely educational and neighborly…
Bob Mercer is able to note again that the latest voter registration figures look better for Republicans than Democrats. From any day in recent electoral…
Billie Sutton’s big cowboy supper and campaign fundraiser in Eagle Butte last night was free and open to the public. The Sutton gubernatorial campaign invited…
An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t the only state where employers and policymakers are capable of ignoring the obvious. Employers nationwide are responding to 3.9% unemployment by trying…