Remember how Senator M. Michael Rounds tried to explain away his partisan resistance to the PACT Act by claiming that the Department of Veterans Affairs wouldn’t…
Posts tagged as “rural”
It’s kind of tough to represent rural interests in government if rural interests don’t show up to the meetings. The Lake County Commission held a…
But why spend millions of dollars on big-city marketers to lure people to visit South Dakota when you could get Wisconsin voter and illegal South…
As Governor Kristi Noem hands out more government money to build broadband to all those South Dakota communities that the free market would otherwise leave…
Democratic Senate candidate Brian Bengs and I may share an occasional wavelength. Shortly after my reminder yesterday that concentration in the chicken industry is as…
Agribusiness continues to stand in the way of robustly diversified economic development in South Dakota. Visionaries are working to create a 75-mile rail to trail…
Survival of the fittest? One of the advantages rural life offers that can coax urban folks to give up almost half of their pay and…
South Dakota’s ag-industrial complex doesn’t cotton (corn? bean?) to hearing that agriculture generates only 5.78% of South Dakota’s gross domestic product. They thus feel compelled…
The pork industry can’t afford to wait for workers to “Call me when you’re an American.” The National Pork Producers Council says that if we…
One of my Aberdeen neighbors who voted for a Manhattan billionaire for President is Tweet-complaining that the Biden Administration is “out of touch with rural…