In good news, House Republicans’ retreat from their sneaky effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics shows that Congress will still listen to public pressure. In bad…
Tag: technology
The world’s sixth-largest (or is it eleventh-largest?) economy has just set new energy-efficiency standards for computers: The California Energy Commission has passed sweeping energy-efficiency standards for…
If we can’t have a state ethics commission to review campaign finance reports, can we at least have a math function in the reporting software? While…
The Indian Health Service yesterday announced that Avera Health will get $6.8 million to provide telehealth services to the nineteen Great Plains Area service units (North…
Senator Mike Rounds, please call your office… or is it Tim Johnson’s office? Hey, phone, I know the feeling. An eager reader received a robocall from…
In today’s teapot tempest department, Patrick Anderson finds some people who like and some people who don’t like the new $52,000 digital signs installed on the historic State…
South Dakota’s elections will be rigged by the luck of draw. NPR this morning highlights research on ballot order that supports results political scientists have reported for years: appearing first on…
My conversation with Greg Belfrage on KELO Radio this morning reminds me of one of the bills I want to throw in the hopper next year: the…
Dang it! Just as I declare that instant mobile voice and data communication is a basic utility, my neighbor Dr. David Newquist says electronic media have become…
Sioux Falls is knocking down one of the last bricks of Jason Gant’s dubious legacy as Secretary of State. For next week’s municipal and school board elections, the…