John Tsitrian contributes the latest evidence that Governor Kristi Noem’s frequently repeated claim that South Dakota has “the strongest economy in America” is flat wrong:…
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The economic analysis of the Sioux Empire Fairgrounds prepared by Minneapolis consultancy CSL International and Tennessee fairgrounds architect Charles D. Smith includes a couple more statistical nuggets…
In her budget speech Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem’s addiction to unnecessary and false superlative manifested itself when she claimed, “The last four years, we have…
Kelly Hertz of the Yankton Press and Dakotan wonders why South Dakota’s elected officials don’t translate their “sunny talk” about our “robust economy” into real investments…
Exacerbating South Dakota’s workforce shortage is our perennial brain drain. Kylie Carlson and Stu Whitney report that we lose about 47% of all public university graduates…
There are worse places to bicycle than South Dakota, but not many. The League of American Bicyclists’ new rankings of the states for bike-friendliness place South…
KELO-TV reminds us that Dakotans for Health plans to give South Dakota voters a chance to vote for a third time to protect women’s right…
Tim Gebhart opened his blog A Progressive on the Prairie with this post titled “Dubya and Crew Did It” on September 9, 2003: They woke…
Arm the teachers! cry the gun nuts who can’t face the fact that guns (and the normalization of guns and mass murder) are part of…
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data for 389 metropolitan areas across the United States. In April, unemployment was lower than it…