The South Dakota Board of Regents heard a bad-news/good-news report on student debt at their meeting this week in Spearfish. The bad news: Average per-student debt has climbed…
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So Duane Riedel and John Thune walk into a bar. Duane Riedel, the former chairman of the Brown County Republican Party, says, “Dagnabit, If things need to…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative lawyer Scott Swier sends to the media the forensic audit of MCEC conducted by Eide Bailly. Swier accompanies this audit with a press release…
The Aberdeen American News hosted a town hall meeting last night on Aberdeen’s library bond issue. The city council approved a $7.7-million bond issue at the end…
When South Dakota’s scandal-dogged EB-5 czar Joop Bollen goes to court, he usually turns to Aberdeen attorney Jeff Sveen for his lawyering. But will Sveen…
Governor Dennis Daugaard might want to reallocate $20 million in his budget address next week. 35 Chinese EB-5 investors are suing the State of South Dakota…
Item 5-S on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda this afternoon makes me think someone at Black Hills State University has been sitting too close to…
Various observers have ranked South Dakota as a pretty good place to retire. Strangely, our Congressional delegation isn’t helping. The National Retiree Legislative Network gives Senator John Thune, Senator…
If Terri Petter’s own bad business and media sense hadn’t led to the closure of her pelting-wolf exhibit in Deadwood after just ten weeks of operation, perhaps the Animal Legal…
Pie and conversation about rural development—yes, please! Dakotafire Media, Grow South Dakota, and Dakota Resources are hosting the Prairie Idea Exchange, a community conversation at the Dakota…