As we learned in October, State Fair attendance was down by 47% this year due to around 97,000 fairgoers who turned fair-noers and exercised the…
Month: December 2020
Governor Kristi Noem used her budget address yesterday in Pierre as another platform for her campaign to replace to Joe Biden in 2024. She capped…
Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022 has a lot to analyze. But let’s start with the slide she tucked into the bottom…
Among the documents received by the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee yesterday was Co-Op Architecture’s “Capitol Complex Building Inventory Evaluation,” a study of the state’s owned and…
I thought the Governor’s K-12 Connect plan to use federal coronavirus relief dollars to provide free home Internet to lower-income families was more in the…
The Legislature’s Rules Review Committee yesterday voted 5–1 to approve South Dakota’s new rules for industrial hemp, including lots of fees for growers and processors:…
Imagine that the following were a genuine statement of intent. It is not, absolutely not, but imagine: Saturday night, I plan to organize a mob…
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names has proposed naming a creek south of Pierre Arikara Creek, in recognition of the…
Then again, there are still lots of irresponsible Rapid City folks choosing to put their friends and neighbors at risk of coronavirus by ignoring public…
On the good side, sensible pandemic precautions may be reducing drunk driving in Rapid City: “I ran some numbers for year to date between 2020…