Listening to South Dakota Public Radio this morning, I think I heard Secretary of Education Melody Schopp say that the new K-12 social studies standards approved by…
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When the South Dakota Legislature created the Building South Dakota economic development fund in 2013, I responded with ambivalence: the program resulted from Democrats’ successful use of the voter…
Rep. Roger Hunt (R-25/Brandon) wants transgender students to drop trou and show their genitalia so officials may overrule the students’ gender identification with their apparent…
Seeing all those angry Americans cheering for Donald Trump’s empty shouting, Senator Mike Rounds is working on his impression of the billionaire Presidential candidate. South…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…
The GOP spin of Kevin Woster’s commentary last week was “Democrats can’t win” the 2016 Senate race against John Thune. Now busy reveling in the fact that…
South Dakota is not in the Top Ten for states relying on sin taxes. In FY 2014, we were #11: Rhode Island: 15.9% of state revenue…
The Public Utilities Commission signals that it is turning into a bunch of war-on-oil liberals! Yesterday, along with setting September 30–October 2 and October 6–9 for the evidentiary…
Last month, Dallas Rulon Wilkinson was arrested for taking pictures up unsuspecting women’s skirts in public with a camera hidden on his shoe. Wilkinson immediately resigned from teaching…
Homosexual couples now have the right to get married in South Dakota, thanks to the Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit. But can homosexual couples adopt children?…