Dr. David Chicoine is taking a big pay cut as he steps down from the presidency of South Dakota State University. Right now he’s making…
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Sorry, Mr. Spitzer: it sounds like Aberdeen wants to be more like Minnesota. Yesterday’s referendum in Aberdeen on issuing $7.7 million in bonds to build a new public library…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) continues to make stuff up to excuse his resistance to the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s teacher pay proposal. At the Stanley County…
Here’s something the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate won’t be able to use against John Thune: the Consumer Review Freedom Act. Senator Thune took up a…
Via Governing, I learn that state government general fund spending nationwide in Fiscal Year 2016 is up by 4.1 percent: Enacted fiscal 2016 budgets show aggregate general…
South Dakota Democratic Party chair Ann Tornberg has been ringing the fundraising bell with a twelve-day holiday e-mail push. But post-Citizens United, do state political parties…
Blog reader Lanny Stricherz contacted his Representative in Congress, Kristi Noem, to express his desire to welcome Syrian refugees into the strongest, richest nation in…
The FiveThirtyEight blog offers this cool interactive tool to find out the relative frequency of terms used on Reddit. The users of Reddit are mostly under…
Bob Mercer notes that the Tribal Economic Development Task Force plans to ask the Legislature to spend money to hire a tribal/reservation economic development specialist for the…