Patrick Anderson reports that in the twenty years since the South Dakota Legislature stopped mandating and funding gifted education, 87% of local gifted education programs have…
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With the Sioux Empire Fair wrapping up today, Lisa Furlong’s fake petitioners will have to take their decoy effort on the road. Watch out for their obviously…
KELO-TV repeats (with reminders from Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Deuel) that the teacher shortage is real, which invites Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) and I to have…
What happens to a Chamber of Commerce when it caves to local politics, fires its ambitious and effective executive director, and lets the city kick it out of a…
Blogospheric neighbor Ken Santema notices that Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) published the list of legislators who responded to her call for a special session of the Legislature…
The leaders of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students are urging us teachers to be nice to them: Two state legislators…
Governing crunches a whole lot of numbers from the IRS to determine where wealth moved in the United States from 2011 to 2012. The IRS data show the…
Senator John Thune says we shouldn’t reduce our carbon emissions because other nations won’t reduce their carbon emissions: Those like U.S. Senator John Thune believe the Obama…
The whopper of the week comes from TransCanada’s Keystone XL boss Corey Goulet, who says his company respects landowners: We achieved that record of success…
While hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists fill South Dakota jails, ERs, coffins, and tax coffers, the Satyagraha Institute is in the Black Hills for its first two-week…