Bob Mercer sounds unimpressed with the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. In his latest blog post, he appears to dismiss the 26-member panel’s…
Category: South Dakota
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
So I’m biking home and I see a dusty cloud rising above the sylvan Aberdeen skyline. What the heck is that? In a minute, I’m biking through…
The payday lenders must be scared. As if circulating their fake 18%-rate-cap petition and hiring out-of-state mercenaries to “block” South Dakota petition circulators isn’t enough, Lisa Furlong’s payday-lender…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…
We have the chance to hear the first substantive debate of the 2016 Presidential election on Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. Central, 7 p.m.…
The Board of Regents heard a proposal this week from South Dakota State University to charge every student a food facility fee. Let’s call it the…
Not flip-flopping on TPP: Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Factory Farming Agriculture. In March, Secretary Lentsch said the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be great for South Dakota ag…
Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…
For probably the first time in its history, TV cameras came to a board meeting of Mid-Central Educational Cooperative. Given that the state has yanked MCEC’s…