Tax increment financing is that special deal local governments hand out to developers and other bigwigs to let them divert their property tax from public…
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Fake-wrestling promoter and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon came to South Dakota this week to tell some Trumpy lies: Her visit to DeGeest Steel Works…
Donald Trump has failed to make America great enough to make more Americans think life is worth living here. Life expectancy in the greatest nation…
President George H.W. Bush died last night at age 94. Lower your flags, please. NPR just had Christopher Buckley, who wrote speeches for Bush during his…
I didn’t get around to watching Saturday Night Live‘s pre-election show until last night (ah, the asynchronicity of Internet living!). But Michael Che’s observation from…
I don’t follow Jesus, so the capture of Christianity by Trumpism is a mild annoyance but not a personal crisis. But evangelical churches’ embrace of…
Where’s Paul Erickson? Somewhere near Washington D.C., visiting his Russian shotgun-paramour Maria Butina in jail and lawyering up, say two quiet sources to The Daily Beast:…
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Carpenter v. Murphy, in which a Native American on Oklahoma’s death row contends that he was convicted…
Governing has named Former Denver city and county elections director Amber McReynolds one of its 2018 Public Officials of the Year for her efforts to…
More guns also won’t stop more farms from going bankrupt: Eighty-four farms filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and…