KSOO’s Independent radio host Rick Knobe continues to urge the Legislature to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay. He said last November that he wasn’t terribly impressed with the…
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Jeepers creepers! Select Management Resources, parent company of North American Title Loans, spends $1,735,416.90, including $1,553,405.58 on deceptive petition circulating company Silver Bullet, to trick South Dakotans…
With the faux-family values crowd in Pierre, it’s hard to tell if we’re in the 1950s or 1984. The radical religious right who mistake the Legislature…
Update 2016.02.12 12:39 CST: Following strong reader interest and critique, I have built on the following calculations to include the small-school adjustment and English language learning factors in…
Habemus bill! Rather, we have a package of four bills from Governor Dennis Daugaard finally putting in legislative language his iteration of his Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan‘ to raise…
The Department of Labor and Regulation annually reports on job placement outcomes for our postsecondary graduates. The 2015 report tells us how many graduates from Fiscal Years…
Bollen Says Blame Everyone Else! Once the 35 Chinese investors suing South Dakota and Joop Bollen for EB-5 visa investment trickery get their lawyer situation…
Sioux Falls sports broadcaster Jeff Thurn steps into the political arena with an editorial calling House Bill 1008, Rep. Fred Deutsch’s potty/locker room bill, an unnecessary political…
Expanding Medicaid in South Dakota is a good idea. Governor Dennis Daugaard and Republican legislators have steadfastly blocked this good idea for three years, largely because they can’t…
Guns matter far less to the proper functioning of South Dakota government than our legislators would have you believe. Guns won’t raise teacher pay, expand Medicaid,…