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…
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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…
South Dakota is not in the Top Ten for states relying on sin taxes. In FY 2014, we were #11: Rhode Island: 15.9% of state revenue…
With the Sioux Empire Fair wrapping up today, Lisa Furlong’s fake petitioners will have to take their decoy effort on the road. Watch out for their obviously…
The University of South Dakota is hosting a Gifted Education Summit tomorrow morning in Vermillion on the Old Main North Lawn. The summit will “honor First Lady Linda…
Friday I noted that South Dakota has the 11th-highest minimum wage in the nation, at $8.50 an hour. Come Saturday, Minnesota will bump us back to 12th:…
Governing ranks states by job growth for the first half of 2015. South Dakota is actually rocking out, with 2.0% job growth (8,400 new jobs) over…
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has published its 2015 Kids Count Data Book. South Dakota doesn’t come out too badly, ranking 18th overall for child welfare (we’ve held…