As investor enthusiasm for Trumpocracy fades, South Dakota continues to see no Trump bump in its economy. The Legislature’s Executive Board received an update Tuesday that shows…
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With local legislators uncritically lapping up anti-immigrant hysteria (“become better educated on the refugee discussion” from a woman who says McCarthy was right? Really, Spencer Gosch?),…
Mr. Ehrisman mentions with dismay Yankton’s proposal to become a riverside Deadwood by building the “Port Yankton” casino on the Missouri River downtown. Expanding gambling options in…
It’ll take more than one New York Times report about an ill-timed trip to Mount Rushmore (whose 3,500 words aren’t as negative as some headline readers might conclude)…
The public meeting RESPEC and its partners in the Deep Borehole Field Test had planned to hold in Philip last month evidently got called for weather.…
The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship offers $6,500 (raised from $5,000 by 2015 HB 1147) over four years to reasonably intelligent South Dakota students who pursue post-secondary…
The Sioux Falls media are giving their local business leaders all sorts of boosterist press this week. One main story is the building boom on…
In our discussion of Trump’s victory among red-state moochers, I cited David Roberts’s smart linkage of the social issues that some South Dakota Democrats are telling…
Fiscal quiz! Can you find the error in the following paragraph from Sara Bertsch’s profile of new Governor’s Office of Economic Development chief Scott Stern? The…
The Pro and Con statements on Amendment R, the measure to clarify governance of our vo-tech schools, show a battle between the two wings of…