Bob Mercer notes the latest economic metrics from the Bureau of Finance and Management. They’re all bad. Job openings advertised online across South Dakota have…
Month: April 2020
Some Republicans are preaching the weird, false narrative that Democrats are using the coronavirus pandemic to take away people’s freedom and wreck the economy to…
Governor Kristi Noem’s “plan” for reopening businesses amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic includes some underemphasized criteria for determining when it is safe to start to…
Governor Kristi Noem’s mislabeled and misguided “Back to Normal Plan*” includes one page of slogans (“605 STRONG”! “The Road to Recover”—no, no -y in the…
Two weeks ago, South Dakota Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon said South Dakota wasn’t seeing the racial disparity in coronavirus cases that most of the country…
Governor Kristi Noem is sure getting our money’s worth out of her private video studio in the Capitol. Just last night she did another live…
Who’s on the committee the Aberdeen City Council formed Monday to talk about how to ease coronavirus restrictions and reopen the local economy? Business owners,…
A Twitter friend turns me on to the Rt Covid-19 graph. Created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Rt Covid-19 reports the effective…
What better time that a pandemic to be out standing in your field… or better yet, out tractoring in your field? The USDA National Agricultural…
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has been stopping traffic on highways entering its reservation all month, hoping to check the spread of coronavirus. The checkpoints…