The Board of Regents will spend a little time Thursday discussing technology in the classroom, specifically electronic textbooks. Students in five classes on five campuses…
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I’ve been thinking about what courses to take to re-up my South Dakota teaching certificate. I have until summer 2019 to take six university credits…
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Senate Republicans’ repeal of the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of Americans without health coverage by…
In August 2015, the Board of Regents discussed declining enrollment at the Sioux Falls University Center. At the time, they worked up the idea of focusing…
The United States Supreme Court has partially lifted lower court injunctions against Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban and agreed to hear in October the Executive Branch’s…
Speaking of affordable housing, the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that South Dakota has the third most affordable rent in the country. Defining “affordable” as…
A tax increment finance (TIF) district is supposed to be a neighborhood that the city council declares economically depressed and in need of subsidized property…
Governing breaks down the U.S. population by “generation” and state. Here are the percentages in South Dakota and our neighboring states, compared to the national…
The only good thing Governor Dennis Daugaard seems to have said so far about the Republican Senate wealthcare bill is that it “might be the…
Hey, county commissioners! You’d better call Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and tell them not to break your budgets with their health care bill:…