Texas A&M reports that the majority of America’s dairy workers are immigrants: Nearly 77,000 immigrants worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 employees nationwide, according to a…
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The Washington Post compliments South Dakota with an article noting that our fair state welcomes more refugees in proportion to our population than almost every other state. We’re…
Governing crunches a whole lot of numbers from the IRS to determine where wealth moved in the United States from 2011 to 2012. The IRS data show the…
Gordon Howie knows how to get attention. Shout “Too Many Mexicans” in a blog headline (without even the blog-dodge question mark), and folks will click to watch…
Why are Twin Cities Somali immigrants more likely to radicalize and join ISIS than Sioux Falls Somalis? Assimilation, says writer and researcher Justin Hienz: [The…
Another major South Dakota industry is calling for looser immigration rules to boost its workforce recruiting. At a public forum with Attorney General Marty Jackley in Deadwood…
Jodi Schwan asks us to “get beyond Mars.” Funny she should make that request, given that she was the one to spotlight the “Not as bad…
Senator John Thune comes to Groton, and we get more pro-CAFO propaganda for loosening immigration rules to provide South Dakota dairies with more easy-to-exploit foreign…
That Sioux Falls paper picks up a March 23 article from the Tri-State Neighbor that repeats a cry we’ve heard before from other CAFO dons: South Dakota’s big dairies want Uncle…