We’ve talked about the problem of food deserts in rural South Dakota. But even our biggest city, Sioux Falls, has areas where people lack easy…
Month: December 2021
While Kristi Noem was off filling her rodeo fans in Vegas full of bull, killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was back here at home admitting…
Maybe part-time Governor Kristi Noem has been slow to respond to her primary opponent Steven Haugaard’s criticism of her spendy sauna because she was away…
After reading my criticism yesterday of Republican gubernatorial candidate Steven Haugaard’s failure to capitalize on the Noem luxury-rugs-and-sauna story, a friend wrote, with a fiendish…
Aberdeen is hoping to spend $334 million of mostly federal money to draw 44 million gallons of water a day from the Missouri River to…
Hat tip to Bluestem Prairie! Also charged up about electric vehicles are the Red Lake Nation and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation. Alternative energy…
Technical education is creeping toward the future. Next fall, Lake Area Technical College in Watertown will become South Dakota’s first school to offer training in…
Governor Kristi Noem and the press hand her primary challenger Steve Haugaard a perfect issue on which to skewer the Governor, her extravagant purchases of…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…