It’s not every day that a five-million-dollar increase in sales tax revenues amidst a pandemic recession is only the second biggest budget story of the…
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All those Trumpists in Brookings crying about their city government’s leadership in passing the first citywide mask mandate in South Dakota had better think again.…
Governor Kristi Noem is finally promising to shake loose a much larger chunk of the coronavirus relief funds that she has mostly sat on all…
As of yesterday afternoon, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology reported fifteen cases of coronavirus among students and two among faculty. 103 Mines community…
Leadership matters. Competence matters. The bully pulpit matters. Elections matter. In 2016, we elected a self-absorbed, ineducable celebrity whose shoddy businesses repeatedly went bankrupt to…
The Brookings City Council had the good sense to pass an ordinance last night requiring masks in public places to tackle the surging spread of…
Governor Kristi Noem didn’t just use your tax dollars to advertise herself on national television as the opening shot of the 2024 Presidential race. She…
[Read Dhaval Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, and Joseph J. Sabia, “The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Covid-19,”…
Congressman Dusty Johnson is proposing a small expansion of the tax break teachers get for buying their own classroom supplies: I’m encouraged that schools in…
Better late than never: Governor Kristi Noem has announced that she will send about $75 million in coronavirus relief funds to South Dakota’s K-12 schools.…