What does Republican Governor Kristi Noem do when South Dakota runs a budget surplus? Brag about it and tuck it in the bank. What does…
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Yesterday I ran some numbers to demonstrate that, contrary to the flimsy assertions of Governor Kristi Noem, Californians are not flocking to South Dakota for…
While reading Bluestem Prairie‘s note on the Minnesota House’s unanimous approval Friday of a bill to put purple signs up on seven miles of Highway 5…
The “strongest economy in America” is still generating the second-lowest teacher salaries in America: The latest data from the National Education Association shows South Dakota…
KELO-TV turns to lengthy woeful comments from Rapid City marijuana dealer Kittrick Jeffries to lament the failure of Initiated Measure 27 and the various ways…
The Minneapolis Fed, with help from the Minnesota state tourism office and the state’s hotel lobbying group, surveyed over 300 tourism businesses in late August…
Exacerbating South Dakota’s workforce shortage is our perennial brain drain. Kylie Carlson and Stu Whitney report that we lose about 47% of all public university graduates…
There are worse places to bicycle than South Dakota, but not many. The League of American Bicyclists’ new rankings of the states for bike-friendliness place South…
KELO-TV reminds us that Dakotans for Health plans to give South Dakota voters a chance to vote for a third time to protect women’s right…
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data for 389 metropolitan areas across the United States. In April, unemployment was lower than it…