Various observers have ranked South Dakota as a pretty good place to retire. Strangely, our Congressional delegation isn’t helping. The National Retiree Legislative Network gives Senator John Thune, Senator…
Tag: politics
Update 13:25 CST: Hold on! The editorial I discuss below was originally published by the Rapid City Journal on November 15! The Bismarck Tribune reprinted it on November…
Brown County Commission chairman Duane Sutton is up for re-election next year. Yet if his Facebook page accurately reflects his primary concerns, Commissioner Sutton is much less worried…
I wholeheartedly second Scott Ehrisman’s observations about Joe Sneve’s glaring omission of quotes from Sioux Falls civic watchdog Bruce Danielson in Sneve’s column about Bruce Danielson: “What’s missing from this…
An eager reader shares an editorial from the Los Angeles Times on the EB-5 visa investment program, on which our Congressional delegation needs to figure out its position…
Find $75 million in revenue to raise South Dakota teacher pay at least $8,000, from 51st to 39th in the nation—that’s the crux of the plan…
Bob Ellis dismisses the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from 51st to 39th in the nation as another liberal plot to expand…
Tom Lawrence angles into uncertainty, offering a weekend column asserting that John Thune’s shot at the White House (or at least the Naval Observatory) may or may…
Tasi Livermont offers a two-part (so far!) report on South Dakota’s teacher shortage and the challenge facing the 2016 Legislature to do something about it with the Blue Ribbon K-12…
I have a tummy full of turkey and cranberries to keep down; I really should not be reading Dakota War College. But my tummy is soothed…