The good news is that South Dakota didn’t slip as far in the U.S. News & World Report 2019 rankings of states as Iowa did. While Iowa…
Month: May 2019
While the 2019 South Dakota Legislature ignored sports betting, and while we wait for Deadwood organizers to decide whether or not they want to circulate…
South Dakota state government can be generous when it wants to… and when it has extra federal money to spend. Thanks to Congress’s ignoring Donald Trump’s…
To fight the spread of the emerald ash borer, the Department of Agriculture is asking us all to sign the “Don’t Move Firewood” Pledge. Unlike…
Brookings neighbor Mark Sternhagen rides a wheelchair because he missed out on a vaccine when he was young and contracted polio. Sternhagen lets misinformed anti-vaccination…
If you see a varmint trap on public land today, you’re seeing someone breaking the law. Game Fish and Parks told trappers last week to…
Governor Kristi Noem still hasn’t found the Next Big Thing that she’s hoping will plop into South Dakota’s economic lap to make it look like…
Donald Trump continues his Communist march toward nationalizing America’s farms. After promising $12 billion in welfare checks last year to buy farmers’ votes and distract them from…
Apparently almost half of South Dakotans live in counties where the state’s attorney thinks Jason Ravnsborg is full of crap. At least that’s one way…
The Brookings Register is messing with its online readers’ heads. As I scroll through their website, they throw me a poll asking, “Should schools in…