Senator Ryan Maher (R-28/Isabel) provided me a little more background on his Senate Bill 58, a measure that clarifies and expands the Department of Transportation’s obligation to…
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Outgoing Codington County Commissioner Elmer Brinkman reflects on how increasing his local government workforce decreased costs: When Brinkman first started, the commissioners met at 10 a.m. each…
Legislature, help me out. Every time I post about the Deep Borehole Field Test—you know, that nice little engineering project to try drilling perfectly straight three-mile…
In his odd little press conference yesterday, Mayor Mike Huether repeated his assertion that government at all levels should be run like a business. As South…
Last week an eager commenter submitted this Washington Post article to support the contention that Donald Trump won the Presidency on economics and change. First, look at…
Ohio-based research and engineering firm Battelle is having a tough time convincing people to let them drill a hole. Folks in Pierce County, ND, and Spink County, SD, waved off…
Keep your darned hands off my Essential Air Service! So may shout some over-entitled Republicans who’ve been celebrating the chance to force us taxpayers to foot most of the…
An eager reader points us toward the U.S. Department of Transportation order selecting Aerodynamics Inc. as the subsidized provider of flights from Watertown to Pierre…
Some days the blog writes itself: That’s Dakota Roots, your state government’s employee recruitment program, using federal government jobs to lure workers to conservative South Dakota. Oh,…
The Department of Energy insists that it is applying its new principle of “consent-based siting” to both the Deep Borehole Field Test, which will involve…