Here’s the weirdest little statistic I’ve been able to pull out of Tuesday’s primary results so far. Looking across the county-level results for the two…
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The Legislative Research Council has released prison population data for April 2018. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls had 4% more prisoners than projected in…
Someone in the comment section got me thinking about girls versus boys in the contests for South Dakota Legislature. Let’s stroll through some numbers, with…
The South Dakota Department of Education has posted its special education report for the 2016–2017 school year online. The report gives us mixed grades, with…
…but a Schoenbeck Surge for Jackley in District 5? The latest voter registration figures show no “Blue Wave” or much of any other wave in…
The National Education Association has finally compiled and published nationwide education stats for the 2016–2017 school year, the first year of South Dakota’s extra half-penny…
We South Dakotans aren’t buying enough stuff to keep our state budget afloat. So says the Legislative Research Council’s latest report on general fund receipts:…
South Dakota lagged on three economic indicators in 2017. According to Mike Maciag’s analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis data, South Dakota had below average…
Marty Jackley broke the petition-sampling table, so Shantel Krebs had to order a new one! Last Monday, our aspiringly gubernatorial Attorney General submitted his nominating…
The Secretary of State’s office added eleven candidates to the roster of Legislative contenders yesterday. All eleven of them are West River Democrats: District 28B…