Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
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Declines in public-sector employment and wages have dragged down the recovery from the 2008 recession. Those declines have also disproportionately hurt minority workers: Part of the reason…
Our friend and neighbor Charlie Johnson will see his long-standing organic farm disrupted by the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Public Utilities Commission approved the Bakken oil pipeline yesterday on a…
Part 3 of Dakotafire‘s coverage of South Dakota’s teacher shortage wonders if the Blue Ribbon panel’s 30th recommendation should have been recruiting moms to teach: “Being a teacher…
On September 11, Aberdeen businessman Matt Dielke started “Promoting Honesty and Transparency in County Government,” a Facebook page to document his efforts to get some…
Brown County Commission chairman Duane Sutton is up for re-election next year. Yet if his Facebook page accurately reflects his primary concerns, Commissioner Sutton is much less worried…
John Tsitrian isn’t the only thoughtful and thought-provoking member of his family. The Rapid City blogger’s daughter Emily Tsitrian sends a fine travelogue from “extraordinary, friendly, clean,…
I wholeheartedly second Scott Ehrisman’s observations about Joe Sneve’s glaring omission of quotes from Sioux Falls civic watchdog Bruce Danielson in Sneve’s column about Bruce Danielson: “What’s missing from this…
An eager reader shares an editorial from the Los Angeles Times on the EB-5 visa investment program, on which our Congressional delegation needs to figure out its position…
Find $75 million in revenue to raise South Dakota teacher pay at least $8,000, from 51st to 39th in the nation—that’s the crux of the plan…