Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) dropped by the Dakota Free Press comment section yesterday to ask some reasonable questions about teacher pay, opt-outs, and South Dakota voters’…
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Some of my teacher friends are tweeting from the Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE) conference in Rapid City. Yesterday conference attendee Sandy Arsenault tweeted Secretary of…
Todd Epp tantalizes us with a tidbit on the Democrats’ tardy tapping of a new top dog. For four months, since Zach Crago’s resignation, South Dakota’s minority party has…
In other referendum news, our hardy team of petition circulators in Sioux Falls just added some star power. The dean of Sioux Falls talk radio and erstwhile two-term…
The petition drives to refer Senate Bill 177 (the youth minimum wage) and Senate Bill 69 (the “incumbency protection plan,” as one circulator calls it) are charging…
Why go to Mars when you can teach music in Groton? School superintendents Joe Schwan of Groton and Michael Kroll of Warner take to the Aberdeen…
Last week, Marketplace spotlighted a new study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center, which finds that poverty-level wages cost taxpayers $152.8 billion each year in public…
State-favored ad maker Lawrence & Schiller is promoting the Build Dakota vo-tech scholarship on unreliable wage data. If they really wanted to encourage kids to become welders…
Is the Governor’s Office of Economic Development finally getting a grip on reality? GOED hired Lawrence & Schiller to conduct focus groups in Peoria, Des Moines, Davenport,…
Comedian Bill Maher is coming to South Dakota in September. Will he be raising money for the South Dakota Democratic Party or not? KDLT says yes:…