U.S. Senate candidate Dan Ahlers says South Dakota struggles to provide affordable health care. He’s right: as reported here last year, our failure to expand…
Tag: rural
The Black Hills Pioneer reports that three new Meade School District members who are concerned about the funding of rural schools want to talk about…
My family had a health emergency recently. In the first 72 hours, we didn’t have a chance to check the price lists. Even if we…
Governor Kristi Noem should go easy on the Aberdeen legislators who are trying to block her grants for rural broadband. Those good Republicans are just…
The 2018 Legislature approved spending $55 million to build the precision agriculture program at SDSU. Teaching undergraduates to use science and technology to grow more…
I’ll give rookie Representative Scyller Borglum (R-32/Rapid City) this: she’s showing more off-Session initiative than most South Dakota legislators. Instead of waiting for the Executive…
Along with approving the FY 2020 budget in the dark of night, our blizzard-spooked legislators pulled $6.6 million out of reserves to balance this year’s…
Governor Kristi Noem’s big-government spending on rural broadband won’t be enough to save small towns from rural decline. We all know that if you want…
In her State of the State Address Tuesday, after vowing absolutely not to raise taxes, Governor Kristi Noem led off her list of things she…
Governor Kristi Noem addressed the South Dakota Legislature this afternoon. Several of her words deserve highlighting. (All quotes come from the transcript Governor Noem provided…