South Dakota’s state parks charge all users the same fees: $8 to enter a state park, $4 to hike or bike the Mickelson Trail, $36…
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Coronavirus appeared to depress visits to Mount Rushmore in the first half of 2020, but after the costly Noem/Trump hate fest and protest crackdown on July…
“Breathtaking Failure to Manage the Crisis”—Noem Helps SD Win Designation as Riskiest State to Visit
Reality ultimately catches up with everyone. A Forbes travel columnist writes up South Dakota as the most dangerous place to travel during the pandemic: Risk…
Our Canadian friends have been much better at controlling the coronavirus pandemic than we have. Canada is seeing a fall surge in coronavirus cases, just…
The Department of Agriculture announced this week that attendance at the South Dakota State Fair this year was down 47.4% compared to 2019. Well, the…
The state is pretending that spending $1.5 million to stage fireworks at Mount Rushmore for Il Duce and the Snow Queen’s vanity was a great…
Governor Kristi Noem needs $5 million from the CARES Act to splash her face across national TV for “tourism promotion.” But the Snow Queen deigns…
Governor Kristi Noem didn’t just use your tax dollars to advertise herself on national television as the opening shot of the 2024 Presidential race. She…
[Read Dhaval Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, and Joseph J. Sabia, “The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Covid-19,”…
Some drive-by tweeter pops in to my retweet on North Dakota drilling permits on how we don’t need Bakken oil (or, by 2035, any oil)…