South Dakota Chamber chief David Owen noted in the comment section that the Chamber’s “Giant Vision” entrepreneurship competition (backed with $40K of our money) got snowed…
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Chris Pagel is mostly a video gamer who posts his digital exploits to YouTube. But last month, he posted this lengthy meditation on why Max…
A trucker and his wife from Arizona visited Al’s Oasis in April. Wife Lori likes to video-blog some of the truck stops they visit. Here’s…
Update 2019.05.04 23:05 CDT: The star in the title arises from my conversation with in-house legal scholar Bearcreekbat in the comment section below. While we…
A third term for Mayor Mike Levsen? Sure, says my neighbor Bethe Martian, who appreciates his vision of an Aberdeen that builds on inclusiveness: In…
The state isn’t just giving away varmint traps; it’s teaching people how to use them: Being involved in a recent series of trapper education courses…
The barf-word of the week is agvocacy, the new term being foisted on us by the “share our story” marketing machine of industrial agriculture. The term…
When a rookie legislator cranks out press releases about her one-woman statewide tour to study rural education and about her efforts to serve constituents with chatbots,…
If the Deadwood gambling or anyone else hits the streets with initiative petitions this year, I’m happy to share this guidance for circulating petitions, which…
The gambling interests in Deadwood have an initiated amendment in the hopper to legalize sports betting in Deadwood. They’ve had their Attorney General’s statement since…