KOTA TV makes a couple of interesting notes about Senate Bill 159, the stealth vouchers bill signed into law by Governor Dennis Daugaard two weeks ago: The stealth…
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Shannon Marvel reports in this morning’s Aberdeen American News on racist comments made about a young American Indian wrestler at last weekend’s big AAU tournament at the…
Attorney General Marty Jackley is saying South Dakota has a corruption problem because the Legislature hasn’t passed tough enough penalties. Doug Wiken laughs at that buck-passing: Jackley…
Key to securing passage of House Bill 1182, the sales tax to raise K-12 teacher pay, was Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s (R-5/Watertown) amendment specifying that three percent of…
TransCanada/Keystone/Alberta oil reading stumbles me upon a new study that finds Alberta teachers work about 48 hours a week during the school year. I tracked down…
Sioux Falls is knocking down one of the last bricks of Jason Gant’s dubious legacy as Secretary of State. For next week’s municipal and school board elections, the…
The foxes have been guarding the henhouse for forty years. Now the foxes are offering corruption reform plans. What’s wrong with this picture? Jackley said he plans…
Last fall, I spotted the first Bernie Sanders sign in an Aberdeen yard west of South Main. Last month, I saw a Donald Trump sign on…
South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
Can TransCanada ever do math right? They underestimated the risk of spills on their Keystone tar sands oil pipeline; now they’ve had to multiply up their initial estimate of…