Well, Democrats in the South Dakota Legislature did a little better than Republicans at picking women for leadership positions. Democrats elected a woman. A woman. According…
Month: November 2018
Dr. Joseph Bottum told Lori Walsh on South Dakota Public Broadcasting this noon that Hoven, Blunt, Highmore, and other South Dakota farm towns are mostly…
A new report from the LRC’s Division of Fiscal and Program Analysis finds the Department of Hunan Services “Dakota at Home” program, which helps South…
Missouri voters turned out Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, but they voted to increase their minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023. Missouri and Utah…
Russian gun rights campaigner and accused Russian agent Maria Butina spent her thirtieth birthday in jail this month. She may be negotiating with prosecutors to…
Back in July, Brookings writer Phyllis Cole-Dai offered me an early copy of her new historical novel, Beneath the Same Stars, if I would just write…
Northern State University isn’t putting much faith in our legislators’ “relationships” to get the funding it needs to finish its building projects. With construction costs…
Not satisfied with the tax increment financing it got to incentivize a plant expansion that was already underway, Canadian cheese maker Agropur continues to try…
If you want to run for Democratic Party chair, you’re going to have to miss a crackerbarrel, not to mention a couple good debate tournaments…
When Airbnb agreed last year to pay South Dakota taxes, I guesstimated they’d add $200,000 to our public coffers. With my usual conservatism, I was…