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Farm Welfare Queens Get Royal Treatment from Trump

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-08-31

No wonder rural America cussed President Barack Obama and clings blindly to Donald Trump: the Manhattan billionaire has showered farmers with far more welfare checks…

Paycheck Protection Program Sends SD at Least $1.3B, Saves over 180K Jobs

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-07-07

In his latest rock’em-sock’em journalism, SDPB’s Seth Tupper grabs the Small Business Administration’s latest deliberately vague data on the Paycheck Protection Program and maps the…

Freedom Is Nice, But SD and Noem Depend on Government to Survive

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-06-09

Governor Kristi Noem tells us that the most important thing we can learn from the coronavirus pandemic is that “more freedom, not more government, is…

Socialism Saves Roy Lake Resort

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-05-13

In today’s South Dakota socialism, you and I and all South Dakotans now own and operate the Roy Lake Resort. After five years of being…

How Do We Earn a Living in a Pandemic?

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-04-11

Coronavirus, Capitalism, and Why That’s the Wrong Question In America, we determine the value of our lives by the value we provide to to others.…

SDGOP Canceling Fundraising Events, Ideological Bluster…

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-03-20

The South Dakota Republican Party is bucking the trend of Midwestern Trumpists not taking coronavirus as seriously as sensible people and policymakers and urging it…

Socialism Will See Us Through to Shop Another Day

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-03-17

The free market can’t work when we can’t go to the market. Amazon may be hiring 100,000 extra workers to handle increased demand from online…

Noem Points Poor to Free Covid-19 Tests; Trump to Declare Emergency

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-03-13

Cornoavirus is apparently infecting good Republicans with socialist notions. Governor Kristi Noem is encouraging low-income South Dakotans to go get some free health care: South…

Other Nations Provide Universal Health Care, Pay Less for Procedures and Drugs

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2019-12-30

Naysayers who want to stick in the mud of America’s failing for-profit health care system say we can’t afford Medicare for All. But we’re already…

Farmers 31% Socialist in 2019

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2019-12-12

Farmers will enjoy 10% more net income this year than in 2018. Unfortunately, almost a third of that income will come in the form of…

What You’re Saying

Cory Allen Heidelberger on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": Dennis Daugaard disagreed with the Legislature eno...
Kate Boyd on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": I laughed because I made wine for my seventh grade...
e platypus onion on "Killer's Appeal Asks...": Ben C, this might help. FAQ about jury duty from i...
Jake on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": The more I see of this queen governess's time in o...
Mark Anderson on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": Kristi lies. She's a maga girl. The two go togethe...
larry kurtz on "All Five Noem Vetoes...": South Dakota's budding hemp industry will drive mo...
Nick Nemec on "Ravnsborg Co-Prosecu...": Give it a rest Kurt. The bottom line is that while...
Ben Cerwinske on "Killer's Appeal Asks...": While I'm glad Tim had an experience that reflects...
e platypus onion on "Killer's Appeal Asks...": Dear imaginary goatsherd, my duty was not to allow...
jakc on "Rail-Lobbyist Thune ...": Richard Schiever, even if John Thune did get an en...

Blog Roll: SD Mostly Political

The South Dakota Standard
It’s true that we’re living longer, but why do we have to work longer and harder when our aging bodies say “no”?: We’re living longer. Ergo, we must work longer. So saith those with soft, manicured hands, perfectly coiffed hair and stylish ensembles.Let's examine this argument and the class divides inherent…

2023.03.26

South DaCola
House that City of Sioux Falls wants to demolish had a Go Fund me page: I guess the owner of the house was NOT to happy about this and I believe it was taken down. Someone else put it up as a joke. Probably enough there to take the whole family to Burger King.…

2023.03.25

The South Dakota Standard
Brookings pastor Carl Kline says woke is wonderful. Don’t sleep and ignore pressing problems. Be woke!: For some months now, I woke up at the same time. It may vary by 15 minutes or less. But I can be laying on my side, sound asleep, back to the clock, and all of a sudden wake up, turn to look at the cl…

2023.03.25

Bluestem Prairie
[VIDEO] Minnesota House passes bill to establish North Star State as a ‘trans refuge’ state: A long day of phone interviews and errands. Here's a look at one of the transformative actions in the Minnesota legislature, on a might in which the skies were blazing with the northern lights. T…

2023.03.25

Bluestem Prairie
Session Daily: Legislation seeks to keep Dakota, Ojibwe languages alive: In the summer of 2021, I enrolled in two classes in the Dakhóta iápi Okhódakičhiye's Dakota Language Summer Institute. The classes were nearly entirely conducted on Zoom, though we did first meet…

2023.03.23

Northern Valley Beacon
What can people in Aberdeen do to get some news?: The most noticeable symptom that something was wrong was that the newspaper featured a front page photo of Governor Ditz (aka Noem) almost everyday. That seemed to be a distraction for the fact tha…

2023.03.23

South DaCola
City of Sioux Falls using firefighters to fill potholes: I am not opposed to different city departments cross training. I have often said that cross training between two departments would be beneficial to taxpayers; With the increased workload, Public Works…

2023.03.23

Northern Valley Beacon
Fired NSU president appointed president of Minnesota State U. Moorhead: Here is the news release from Moorhead: Timothy Downs Named President of Minnesota State University MoorheadThe Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities has named Timothy Dow…

2023.03.23

Bonny's Blog
March 22, 2023: COVID Weekly Data Update: Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring wastewater can help communities detect and prepare for increasing cases of COVID-19 in a timely manner (https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/how-wws-works/index.html#print): Was…

2023.03.23

South Dakota News Watch
11 billion-pound mystery: The chemicals South Dakota trains carry: At 6:18 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2015, a defective railroad line built in the early 1900s failed, leading to the derailment of seven tanker cars carrying ethanol near Lesterville, S.D.... The post 11 billion…

2023.03.22

Blog Roll: Greater SD Blogosphere

SleuthSayers
A I on Short Story: Artificial Intelligence once was a concept of science fiction, a thing of the future. Now, it's a creature of the present and we are still learning how to use it.With the right AI software, anyon…

2023.03.26

Idle Hands Dep't
A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass: Bluegrass DNA from the Farm Hands Tim Graves on Dobro, Don Wayne Reno on banjo, Terry Eldredge on bass, and Jimmy Haynes on guitar.…

2023.03.26

The Poetry of Barry G. Wick
A Memory: A MemoryThis morning colder as I sitAt an old plastic sinkBrushing my graying hairThe man in the mirrorLooks at strands in a combPulled from his thinning headAcross the room a radioPlays a piano trioA…

2023.03.25

SleuthSayers
Award-winning or Bestselling? Which would you choose?: As we approach award season time, the old existential question is coming up at hotel bars, dives, and other dubious but cheap places that serve alcohol to bitching and whining authors…If you could be…

2023.03.25

Mark Haugen
Finished: 'Miami Purity' by Vicki Hendricks: I needed this book. It's been a while since I had one knock my socks off, and this one did. I read the book in one sitting, literally, on a recent flight to Tampa. Fortunately, for my seat-mates…

2023.03.25

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #561: More Home Plays: Just like last week, this episode is primarily based around what I've been listening to in the Ledge home base over the last few days. Some of it is brand new material. Much of it has been old fa…

2023.03.25

LivingNonviolence
The birds are back!: Several weeks ago I shopped for Black Oil Suflower seeds for the bird feeder. The supermarket was out of stock and all they had was a wild bird seed mix. Not my first choice, but I was in a hurry so…

2023.03.24

Mark Haugen
No cash, no problem: Wifey and I spent last week in Florida. If you like beaches, bikinis, bands and baseball you'd enjoy it. I do and I did.One of the unique (to me) things we encountered was at the Atlanta Braves…

2023.03.23

Native Hope Blog
Water does not reach all Americans with equity: Mni Wiconi translates to “Water is Life.” When called upon to think about something as essential yet basic as water, most don’t give its existence a second thought. Many people associate this life-sus…

2023.03.20

Idle Hands Dep't
Geography Div (oops subsection): Map made in the 19th century about the North American colonies. John Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer in the XIX century. The map shows what the North American colonies looked like in 1715 alo…

2023.03.20

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