While I’m at it, I should note a few of the other “high-wage” jobs included on South Dakota’s “Hot Careers” website. The South Dakota Department…
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In my random blog-walk of the morning, I get from empathy and arts in government to the state helping an anti-gay church find a pastor.…
While they rebuffed a drunk driver’s effort to get off on a technicality, the South Dakota Supreme Court this week did do a favor for…
Update 12:03 CDT: South Dakota Federation of Labor AFL-CIO President DuWayne Wohlleber informs me that the state AFL-CIO does not endorse candidates before convention. He…
Trumpist Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dropped by the Badlands and an old Minuteman missile silo yesterday with Rep. Kristi Noem to tout Interior’s “good neighbor…
I teased new Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken last week for some word and spandex choices that could make his Republican backers nervous. Now this week…
While discussing Billie Sutton’s economic development plan yesterday, I mentioned that government can’t reach into the private sector and raise everybody’s wages. But maybe government…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton starts off his economic development plan with the one phrase his Republican opponents refuse to mention when talking workforce: raising…
On Tuesday the Tax Foundation published an analysis of the state-by-state cost of Trump’s impulsive and ill-advised steel and aluminum tariffs. This analysis does not…
The Legislature’s passage of bills raising and indexing legislator pay starting next year prompted one of my Twitter friends to wag, “So collective bargaining does…