It’s not every day that a five-million-dollar increase in sales tax revenues amidst a pandemic recession is only the second biggest budget story of the…
Month: September 2020
Senator John Thune must think Joe Biden is going to be President next year. After four years of ignoring the unabashed deficit spending of his…
All those Trumpists in Brookings crying about their city government’s leadership in passing the first citywide mask mandate in South Dakota had better think again.…
Governor Kristi Noem is finally promising to shake loose a much larger chunk of the coronavirus relief funds that she has mostly sat on all…
Governor Kristi Noem needs $5 million from the CARES Act to splash her face across national TV for “tourism promotion.” But the Snow Queen deigns…
As of yesterday afternoon, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology reported fifteen cases of coronavirus among students and two among faculty. 103 Mines community…
Leadership matters. Competence matters. The bully pulpit matters. Elections matter. In 2016, we elected a self-absorbed, ineducable celebrity whose shoddy businesses repeatedly went bankrupt to…
Bob Mercer reports that while Kristi Noem promised in 2018 not to take contributions from businesses and made a big fuss over auditing her campaign…
Governor Kristi Noem is not governing this week… but how could anyone tell the difference? Our Governor is out of the office, gallivanting around the…
The Brookings City Council had the good sense to pass an ordinance last night requiring masks in public places to tackle the surging spread of…