Unemployment claims rose week before last, from 775 to 911. That’s a ninth of the number of claims received in the worst early week of…
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One thing government is not choking is people’s desire to work. Republicans have told us that handing out $600 coronavirus relief checks on top of…
Amazon plans to build a distribution center near the I-29/I-90 intersection in northwest Sioux Falls: It’s four stories and 2 million square feet. It all…
In June, Donald Trump was saying the economy would recover along a “rocket ship” trajectory. In April, May, and June, the economy did follow a…
On Monday, Governor Kristi Noem announced a new job training program to help workers displaced by the coronavirus recession. SD Upskill will offer 22 18-credit…
No more coronavirus excuses: as the feds cut off the $600 unemployment checks that have been helping millions of out-of-work Americans survive the pandemic recession,…
Evidently some wishful thinkers have been circulating hogwash suggesting that South Dakota’s non-governance amidst coronavirus is associated with the lowest infection rates and lowest job…
Steven Singer teaches 7th and 8th grade in Pennsylvania. He went through this spring’s crash-course pandemic conversion to online learning with his students while coaching…
Build the wall, but tear Wall down? If coronavirus doesn’t kill South Dakota’s summer tourism industry, Donald Trump will. Despite Senator Marion Michael Rounds’s cries…