On the 239th anniversary of our country’s Declaration of Independence, I find South Dakota’s Bureau of Human Resources flying the flag and stating that our state government proudly employs…
Tag: statistics
Wait a minute: Monday I reported that South Dakota is led the region for job growth in May. Wasn’t raising the minimum wage supposed to kill…
South Dakota’s unemployment rate went up two ticks in May, but South Dakota is leading the region in job growth both for May 2015 and…
Gordon Howie knows how to get attention. Shout “Too Many Mexicans” in a blog headline (without even the blog-dodge question mark), and folks will click to watch…
The Movoto Blog tags itself as “The Lighter Side of Real Estate.” I suppose we should thus take lightly ranking of the top ten places to live in South…
Pennington County is receiving a $150,000 grant through the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge to develop a plan reduce its prison population. The county is one of…
Frequent reader Nick Nemec looked at my review of 2014 vehicular crash data in South Dakota and asked if I could rank the counties based on the…
After releasing the 2014 crime report, the state launched a new online system for accessing accident records. SafeSD.gov allows users to purchase accident records back to 2004…
If you’re feeling really political, you can read the freshly released Crime in South Dakota 2014 report and blame Governor Dennis Daugaard for a 66.7% jump in murder. But there…
Bird flu has broken out at six farms supplying corporate turkey processor Dakota Provisions, resulting in the euthanization of hundreds of thousands of birds. Laying hens…