I wholeheartedly second Scott Ehrisman’s observations about Joe Sneve’s glaring omission of quotes from Sioux Falls civic watchdog Bruce Danielson in Sneve’s column about Bruce Danielson: “What’s missing from this…
Category: South Dakota
An eager reader shares an editorial from the Los Angeles Times on the EB-5 visa investment program, on which our Congressional delegation needs to figure out its position…
Find $75 million in revenue to raise South Dakota teacher pay at least $8,000, from 51st to 39th in the nation—that’s the crux of the plan…
Bob Ellis dismisses the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from 51st to 39th in the nation as another liberal plot to expand…
Tom Lawrence angles into uncertainty, offering a weekend column asserting that John Thune’s shot at the White House (or at least the Naval Observatory) may or may…
Tasi Livermont offers a two-part (so far!) report on South Dakota’s teacher shortage and the challenge facing the 2016 Legislature to do something about it with the Blue Ribbon K-12…
I have a tummy full of turkey and cranberries to keep down; I really should not be reading Dakota War College. But my tummy is soothed…
Angela Kennecke reports on one GEAR UP employee’s support of suspicions raised by this blog and other observers about consultants siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal education grant…
Joop Bollen and his legal team don’t want to drive to Pierre to fight the state’s lawsuit against Bollen’s EB-5 management company SDRC Inc. On November…
Indian Country Media spotlights a May 2015 report from the Lakota People’s Law Project recounting the self-serving relationships and contracts, first revealed in Laura Sullivan’s landmark NPR report…