Subsidy Queen Kristi Noem is complaining that the Biden Administration isn’t spending more money on infrastructure in South Dakota. In April, the United States Department…
Month: May 2021
Hackers held Colonial Pipeline’s fuel pipeline network for ransom for days, triggering gasoline line-ups in the southeastern U.S. and contributing to a dime hike in…
Governor Kristi Noem is treating South Dakota’s chronic labor shortage as a pretext for cutting off pandemic unemployment benefits to South Dakotans, effective June 26:…
Dipstick T-pist tool and Noem appointee Dan Bucheli finally says something useful from his perch at the Department of Health: coronavirus vaccines for 12–15 year…
Good grief: all killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is charged with is three measly misdemeanors, and his lawyer needs more time to prep for trial?…
The correspondent who got me thinking about how safe it is for folks to move to South Dakota offers some armchair sociology comparing the quality of…
Be still my beating heart: some South Dakota legislators actually want to turn down federal money! Yesterday’s Joint Appropriations meeting included a passel of “letters of…
Last October, Governor Kristi Noem outsourced the management of federal coronavirus relief funds to Guidehouse, an international consulting firm. The original contract was for $6,000,000;…
South Dakota state government will not get as much from the American Rescue Plan as it did from last year’s CARES Act. While we got…