A new report finds that Minnesota is bucking a national trend of increasingly regressive taxation. From 2013 to 2015, Minnesota has led a small minority of…
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In the We’re All Gonna Die Department, Beadle County brings us bird flu: The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has confirmed avian influenza in…
One misconception about Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage, came up yesterday in my conversation with Rick Knobe on KSOO Viewpoint University. As we discussed our…
Whatever puts KELO-TV at the top of the local news ratings, it’s not consistent, informative journalism. Consider last night’s filler about Mayor Mike Huether’s meeting with…
My local paper certainly thinks Brown County Commissioner Tom Fischbach had a good idea. Last September, he alerted his fellow commissioners to the fact that Joop…
Former Aberdonian gone north Tony Bender weighs in on the youth minimum wage (which our noble volunteers are working to refer to a public vote right…
Hmm… given the significance of Judge Jeffrey Viken’s ruling in the American Indian foster care/Indian Child Welfare Act case in Rapid City, I’d have thought that our…
South Dakota’s legislators and Congressional delegation have directed millions of dollars toward fighting the pine beetle in the Black Hills to prevent catastrophic fire. Um… Science?…
Before I visit with Mayor Sam Kooiker about his bid for a third term at Rapid City’s helm, let’s take a look at the Kooiker…