Poor Pat Powers, stuck on the road, unable to post his usual cycle of weekend press releases from our Dear Leaders. How South Dakota suffers without…
Category: South Dakota
Sorry, Leo…. On Thursday, columnist Lawrence Diggs of Roslyn advised the Gettysburg Police Department to stop displaying the Confederate flag on its uniform patches. Diggs said apologists for…
A Twitter acquaintance read my Saturday post on Capital One’s closure of its Sioux Falls operation and accused me of belittling the 750 South Dakota workers Capital…
The Deadwood City Commission finally got around to passing its exotic-animal ban. The new ordinance, given first reading over a month ago and delayed by some legal…
Wealth is power. Inequality of wealth is inequality of power. The more wealth one has, the more people one can hire, and the more power one…
When Capital One expanded its call center in Sioux Falls in 2012, all of South Dakota’s leading lights came to cheer: Recall that the people in…
In raw dollars, South Dakota’s $8.50 an hour is the 11th-best in the nation. Nine states and D.C. guarantee a higher basic wage. No neighboring…
Don’t want a foreign company using eminent domain to take South Dakotans’ land and subject our crops, cattle, and aquifers to tar sands pollution? Then get…
Sioux Falls Drinking Liberally (which proudly sponsors this blog) offers some news on the status of the long-awaited new executive director for the South Dakota Democratic Party:…
Two guys are standing outside the Army recruiting office in Sioux Falls with guns. These vigilantes are responding to an unestablished threat and using guns to promote…