The Minneapolis Star Tribune‘s Chris Riemenschneider took a poke at Sioux Falls in his May 4 column on Sir Paul McCartney’s concert swing through the Midwest: For once,…
Tag: Minnesota
Secret rich people are attacking public education in Minnesota, suing the state over its teacher tenure and “last in, first out” teacher layoff policies. The plaintiffs, backed by…
An angry commenter asked me yesterday how I sleep at night. With so much corruption going on in our fair state, maybe the question is, how…
Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
Marshall Korn grew up around dairy cows in Minnesota and South Dakota. When he graduated from Garretson High School in 2001, he wanted to become a dairy…
Via Wonkblog, I learn the Census just issued new state population estimates for 2015! Whoo-hoo! What do we learn about South Dakota? As of July 1,…
The Aberdeen American News hosted a town hall meeting last night on Aberdeen’s library bond issue. The city council approved a $7.7-million bond issue at the end…
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…
Convinced that there’s too much testing in public education, the Minnesota Legislature this year cut its state Department of Education’s testing budget from $42 million to…
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is not running for President (and that’s o.k.—we’ve got Bernie, and that’s plenty for me!). But it would be fun and…