$48,000. 39th. $75 million. Those are the parameters—not the plan, just the parameters—that the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students issued from their final…
Category: South Dakota
Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs previews (pre-empts?) the campaign message you’ll hear from South Dakota Democrats in every campaign in 2016: “I’d heard from bankers, I’d…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is meeting in Pierre right now. You can listen online as the panel tries to produce solid recommendations…
Speaking of CAFOs, Turner County is trying again to craft zoning regs that would allow Sonstegard Foods to concentrate six million laying hens just outside of Parker. Judge Tim…
The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is taking public comment on its proposed revision of the General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated…
Our elders recognize a bad deal when they see one. AARP surveyed 904 South Dakotans age 50 and over and, according to AARP-SD director Sarah…
Bob Mercer and I are reading and thinking the same things. That historic state flag isn’t the only thing that went missing under Jason Gant’s Secretary of…
Yesterday Jason Glodt and Marsy’s Law—today Aberdeen gets the three-play: city, school, now county commission! The Brown County Commission is evidently so sick of hearing folks slag IT…
To cap off the legacy of disgraced Secretary of State Jason Gant, we learn that on the way out the door, one of his employees stole one of two…
A vague scribble on a bathroom wall turned into 20% of the Aberdeen Central High School student body staying home yesterday. The threat, rumored to…