An eager reader reports that the Lake County Planning and Zoning Commission had to vote and revote yesterday to approve a proposal for another tax…
Month: September 2019
When Senator John Thune, Senator Marion Michael Rounds, and Representative Dusty (a funny name to have right now) Johnson get done touring the storm and…
Add to the externalities of climate change and drain tile the cost of road closures. Check out this morning’s map of road closures and flood…
And here I was worried our friend Senator Stace Nelson might be underwater in soggy Hanson County. Silly me—at six-foot-threven (etymology here), Stace, like the…
House Majority Leader Lee Qualm is surprised that Governor Kristi Noem is already threatening to veto any industrial hemp legislation months before the 2020 Session…
I know Sioux Falls got beaten up hard by Tuesday night’s tornado, but at least you can get there and back. KJAM reports that eleven…
The Kingsbury County Commission really wants to pull the plug on Lake Thompson, or at least on the top few feet of water that has…
After the first big season of Governor Noem’s trap-o-rama and other pheasant-fostering initiatives, Game Fish and Parks counted 17% fewer pheasants around the state than…
In Fiscal Year 2019, the Board of Economic Development gave out $31.49 million in corporate welfare checks from the Reinvestment Payment Program to thirteen big…
Governor Kristi Noem pays her daughter Kennedy $51,250 a year to analyze policy for her. Governor Noem has another five policy advisors, four executive assistants,…