Former state education secretaries Rick Melmer and Tom Oster, both appointees of Mike Rounds, run a consulting firm, Dakota Education Services. According to one of…
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Rep. Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) thinks that if we get more Indians voting, more resources will get to Indians: There is an undeniable connection between voter participation…
My post this morning on Dr. Chicoine’s impending reliance on Monsanto for the bulk of his income got one eager reader reviewing the complete list of…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) continues to make stuff up to excuse his resistance to the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s teacher pay proposal. At the Stanley County…
Via Governing, I learn that state government general fund spending nationwide in Fiscal Year 2016 is up by 4.1 percent: Enacted fiscal 2016 budgets show aggregate general…
The FiveThirtyEight blog offers this cool interactive tool to find out the relative frequency of terms used on Reddit. The users of Reddit are mostly under…
Bob Mercer notes that the Tribal Economic Development Task Force plans to ask the Legislature to spend money to hire a tribal/reservation economic development specialist for the…
Former Romney staffer and self-described Libertarian Michael Wille lied his way into a Donald Trump focus group conducted by Republican spinmeister Frank Luntz. Wille tried…
Joop Bollen has cried defamation! in response to the state’s effort to get him to cough up the legal fees he owes them for the messes he made in corrupting…
Grant expert Michael Wyland appears to agree with forensic economist Don Frankenfeld that the “very positive” audit of Mid-Central Educational Cooperative’s GEAR UP books should not assuage our…