Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke has managed to win a temporary pay raise. Since city administrator Joe Neeb resigned in February, someone has had to make all…
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Coming up in House State Affairs this hour is Senate Bill 176, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s attempt to grab the authority to declare martial law for six months in a…
Last month when the President threatened to “send in the Feds!” to address rising crime in Chicago (but of course didn’t follow up with any concrete…
Hat tip to South Dacola! The Sioux Falls City Council continues the all-too-frequent and exclusionary practice of opening a government meeting with a velvet-fisted Christian prayer, and the Christian pastor invited to…
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…
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…