South Dakota Farmers Union (which is currently paying me money to circulate a petition) brought a big crew to Congress last week for its annual D.C. Fly-In to…
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While a tragic housefire turns into a murder-suicide and a possible scandal involving federal money and South Dakota’s Republican education establishment, folks at Dakota War College have…
Let Pat piddle around with the Ashley Madison database—if you want to crunch some real numbers and names of public interest, dig through the minutes of Mid-Central Educational…
Here’s something else John Thune isn’t getting done in the Senate: Perkins Loans. This financial aid program provides $1.2 billion in low-interest loans to over half a…
In addition to calling for more gravy for marketers, the Sioux Falls Area Strategic Workforce Action Agenda also says a few things about education—er, “talent development”.…
Sioux Falls employers think their workforce problems stem in part from negative perceptions of South Dakota: “Most of the professional people we ask don’t know…
Bob Mercer reports that Scott Westerhuis and his family died last Thursday morning just hours after the state Department of Education had told Westerhuis’s employer, Mid-Central Educational Cooperative,…
Could Bernie Sanders be affecting Hillary Clinton’s campaigning? Asked whether she would back the Keystone XL pipeline, the Democratic frontrunner didn’t think she needed to answer that question until January 2017.…
Think Rick Knobe’s nuts for proposing a state income tax to raise teacher pay? Think again. A new report suggests that a state income tax…
Aberdeen cit councilman Mark Remily got off a good line on the cost of the proposed new public library, bond financing for which was given first reading last night:…