Not found in my Christmas stocking: new bills! Some years the Legislature gets on the stick and pops some bills into the hopper around Christmastime…
Posts tagged as “capitalism”
Rolling Stone reminds us that one of Donald Trump’s extremist nominees for the Federal Reserve doesn’t think democracy is nearly as important as his opportunity to…
Whoo-hoo—new podcast! In this week’s awesome hour of audio from Dakota Free Press, local music teacher Joe Berns tells us what he learned about the Koch Brothers’ vision…
Musician and thinker Joe Berns of Aberdeen went to the Koch Brothers’ free pizza and propaganda show here in Aberdeen last Thursday. Here’s his report on the event: The…
The Koch Brothers are lying to us again. My morning paper tells me that Americans for Prosperity South Dakota director Ben Lee is coming to Aberdeen Thursday…
Two lazy cliché posts on Dakota War College make clear the continuing disconnect between Republican dogma and South Dakota’s youth. Pat Powers leads off May Day reprinting Governor…
Speaking of income inequality (thank you, Senator Sanders!), Governing offers this clickable map showing that economic growth has outpaced median income growth in every state: From 2000 to…
More from economist Mark Thoma: a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute finds that workers are doing more and not getting paid for it. Over the…
Spearfish shouldn’t need any new, massive project to attract visitors—it’s a beautiful town! But local developers Joe Jorgensen, Vic Uttke, Doug Hoff, Rick Furnish and Wayne Klein see…
An eager reader sends me this Fresh Air interview with Kevin Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Kruse says…