South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
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Can TransCanada ever do math right? They underestimated the risk of spills on their Keystone tar sands oil pipeline; now they’ve had to multiply up their initial estimate of…
Once we start the story, we can’t stop until we get to the end…. As reported on WNAX and this blog, the Save Farmers Union…
An statistically inclined reader analyzes the state’s numbers on the new K-12 funding package and produces this table and chart showing how the new target student-teacher ratios on which the…
Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Deutsch) insists that, if he wins reëlection to the House, he’ll bring some new and improved form of his paranoid potty bill, the anti-transgender…
The Watertown City Council is more inclined to take petition enforcement into its own hands than the Minnehaha County Auditor’s Office. As Jonathan Ellis reported last week,…
Nothing good comes from this story… other than Farmers Union members coming together, laying out the facts, resolving their differences, and getting back to work. I’m…
Whatever happened at the site of the Keystone 1 pipeline leak near Freeman, TransCanada doesn’t want anyone else looking at it: TransCanada didn’t have a representative…
Has the Bosworth precedent kept a municipal referendum off the ballot in Watertown? Glacial Lakes Energy in Watertown wants to build a four-track rail loop that will allow…
The South Dakota Democratic Party recruits Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley to roast South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem for caving to deep-pocketed corruption-riddled EB-5 visa investment program: SDDP…