Declines in public-sector employment and wages have dragged down the recovery from the 2008 recession. Those declines have also disproportionately hurt minority workers: Part of the reason…
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John Tsitrian isn’t the only thoughtful and thought-provoking member of his family. The Rapid City blogger’s daughter Emily Tsitrian sends a fine travelogue from “extraordinary, friendly, clean,…
The State Innovation Exchange has released a letter signed by legislators from 31 states reminding Americans that we can keep our country safe and welcome immigrants and refugees to…
In this weekend’s signs of creeping fascism in America, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump says that a “Black Lives Matter” protestor who interrupted his speech yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, was…
No word yet from the Secretary of State’s office on progress toward certifying either the real 36% payday loan rate cap petition or the fake, industry-smokescreen…
Better that a hundred bad guys get guns than one good guy have to appeal…. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives…
Rep. John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) plagiarizes Ben Carson; now my Rep. Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) plagiarizes Allen West and says we should accept women, children, and…
Personal privilege: I share this widely posted November 16 interview from French news program Le Petit Journal. Reporter Martin Weill asks a three-year-old French boy at one of the sites of Friday’s…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is taking no stance on whether South Dakota should accept Syrian refugees, perhaps wisely, since states have no authority in determining who can cross…