It’s been a rough couple weeks for Kristi Noem. She stuck her boot in South Dakota’s mouth with her unexpectedly (?!?) ridiculous and ridiculously expensive…
Category: South Dakota
Back when he was trying to justify his vote for Trump’s billionaire tax cuts, Senator Marion Michael Rounds claimed that enacting those tax cuts would…
Speaking of Northern and its need to boost revenues, NSU President Timothy Downs is recommending offering more summer classes: In Aberdeen, Northern is looking at…
A couple months ago, in response to a report showing that Northern State University has a lot of underused classrooms and dorms, I suggested that…
Republicans can’t figure out where they stand on federal environmental regulation. On the one hand, they’ve screamed for years that the Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t…
The Environmental Working Group reports that since Trump began writing checks to make farmers forget about the harm his tariffs have done to them and…
72% of South Dakota farms have taken farm subsidy checks over the last 25 years. The biggest farm welfare payouts have gone to my Brown…
Donald Trump throws $28 billion at farmers (mostly at the rich ones) to make up for wrecking their markets and calls them patriots for taking…
The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s compatriot reporter and author Oliver Bullough visited South Dakota last spring…
Former University of Sioux Falls professor, state legislator and Sioux Falls city councilman Kermit Staggers died Wednesday night. A man who server with Staggers in…