The Aberdeen American News hosted a town hall meeting last night on Aberdeen’s library bond issue. The city council approved a $7.7-million bond issue at the end…
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When South Dakota’s scandal-dogged EB-5 czar Joop Bollen goes to court, he usually turns to Aberdeen attorney Jeff Sveen for his lawyering. But will Sveen…
Governor Dennis Daugaard might want to reallocate $20 million in his budget address next week. 35 Chinese EB-5 investors are suing the State of South Dakota…
Item 5-S on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda this afternoon makes me think someone at Black Hills State University has been sitting too close to…
Various observers have ranked South Dakota as a pretty good place to retire. Strangely, our Congressional delegation isn’t helping. The National Retiree Legislative Network gives Senator John Thune, Senator…
If Terri Petter’s own bad business and media sense hadn’t led to the closure of her pelting-wolf exhibit in Deadwood after just ten weeks of operation, perhaps the Animal Legal…
Pie and conversation about rural development—yes, please! Dakotafire Media, Grow South Dakota, and Dakota Resources are hosting the Prairie Idea Exchange, a community conversation at the Dakota…
Update 13:25 CST: Hold on! The editorial I discuss below was originally published by the Rapid City Journal on November 15! The Bismarck Tribune reprinted it on November…
Keeping DSU green comes at a price. Last month, Dakota State University President José-Marie Griffiths announced that the university would build its new IT building on…
In this morning’s report on the PUC’s approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, I mistakenly mentioned that nationally recognized organic farmer Charlie Johnson of Orland had…