Back in 2011, South Dakota had the fifth-worst rate of bridge deficiency in the United States, with 20.3% of our bridges deemed structurally deficient. The…
Tag: Minnesota
While Governor Kristi Noem is still waiting for the next big thing to materialize (but fighting the next big thing for farmers, industrial hemp), the…
South Dakota’s official nickname used to be “Land of Infinite Variety,” before we decided to brand out prairie state with the name of a mountain.…
Even Uncle Sam takes advantage of South Dakota’s low-wage business climate. Mike Maciag of Governing finds that while only 6% of federal employees make less than…
Do you think welfare should include work requirements? Then go talk to Tru Shrimp. The Balaton, Minnesota, company got $2.6 million in government assistance and…
I read in the news this morning that Minnesota will enact new notary law on January 1 allowing notaries public to notarize documents electronically, for…
I think often about my neighbor Larry Spitzer’s question, back during Aberdeen’s great library debate, about why South Dakota would want to be like Minnesota.…
Back in July, Brookings writer Phyllis Cole-Dai offered me an early copy of her new historical novel, Beneath the Same Stars, if I would just write…
The fastest growing religious group in America is the group I belong to, the non-religious: …Nearly one in four Americans now declare themselves unaffiliated with…
Minnesota-based ag co-op CHS is in trouble for fudged figures. Evidently an employee deliberately overstated the value of CHS’s rail freight contracts by maybe $190…