The South Dakota Legislature briefly considered a Scott Walker/Wisconsin-style ban on collective bargaining for public employees in 2012. That bill quickly failed. But our Republican…
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I’ve expressed opposition to employers’ and prospective employers’ snooping through the social media accounts of their workers and job applicants. If my liberal/libertarian concerns about…
If you’d like to work up an appetite for the Green Aberdeen potluck, put on your necktie and go to 3M Aberdeen’s job fair on…
South Dakota Republicans need to repudiate the anti-Islam, anti-refugee hysteria being fomented by out-of-state speakers, anonymous local groups, and some of its own legislators, like…
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
Fearlessly fielding questions from the Sioux Falls Rotary yesterday, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari didn’t just rebuff the local anti-immigrant crowd. He also tweaked Governor…
A year ago, Aberdeen’s mini-Klan kicked off its campaign of fear and loathing with a presentation in which an out-of-state slideshow hoaxster railed falsely against local…
At his workforce development workshop in Sioux Falls yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard said, “Finding workforce is the key problem that’s faced by employers.” So often…
South Dakota patriots seeking to express their displeasure with the current incompetent White House can bend the ear of a Cabinet member in Sioux Falls…
KELO-TV mistags a story on youth employment. “Teen Summer Jobs Are Vanishing,” KELO writes over five sentences excerpted from a much more detailed AP story,…