Marketplace, a wonderfully informative and objective newscast, opened its program last night by noting that the Trumpist contention that trade deficits are bad is “mistaken.”…
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Maybe GOAC and the Department of Education need to spend less time fretting about the standardized tests that kids (and reasonable parents and teachers) ignore…
The Democratic Party’s share of South Dakota’s electorate continues to decline, while the independent sector grows and Republicans hold steady. According to the Secretary of…
South Dakota’s harvest is proceeding slowly. According to the latest stats from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USD of A, as of Sunday,…
I can finally put my SDSU math major and teaching degree to their fullest use: helping my eighth-grader with her algebra homework. But I also…
Fewer people are going to public university in South Dakota. According to the Board of Regents, all six of our public campi have fewer students…
7% of American adults are shacking up, says the Census Bureau. A new report indicates that the number of unmarried cohabitators has tripled since the…
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development tweeted merrily Thursday that $100 is really worth $113.38 in South Dakota, the sixth-best relative value for the dollar…
John Tsitrian reported back in April on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee’s study of brain drain, which showed that South Dakota is worse at keeping…
In good news, fewer people are in jail! According to the Legislative Research Council’s latest prison population report, South Dakota had 209 fewer people behind…