Listening to the absurdities pouring from the mouths of Kristi Noem and Donald Trump isn’t just hard; it’s hazardous to the mental and intellectual health…
Month: April 2019
90% of Madison voters don’t really care that Marshall Dennert finally won an election and beat out two-term incumbent Roy Lindsay to become their next…
Also figuring in South Dakota’s Legislative enslavement to out-of-state interests is our state-sponsored Christian proselytizing. As that Sioux Falls paper noted in its April 5…
The State of South Dakota is currently embroiled in a lawsuit in which its defense relies crucially on the contention that the state has a…
It looks like our horse-racing subsidy will sit in the barn for at least a year. After receiving a $120,000 state subsidy, South Dakota’s two…
Governor Noem should be less worried about getting kids off their X-Boxes and more worried about getting them off their beer: A new study says South…
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association reports that South Dakota is one of 32 states that are investing less per student now on higher…
I wish the state offered an Irony Bounty—then I could get rich off Governor Noem’s possum-killing plan: …”I think it’s good to get the kids…
***Weather Update 2019.04.10***: Given the crazy weather, the ACLU has postponed this event one week, to Thursday, April 18. I have edited the headline above…
Back in 2011, South Dakota had the fifth-worst rate of bridge deficiency in the United States, with 20.3% of our bridges deemed structurally deficient. The…