Between national campaign fundraising trips to sunny Texas and Florida last winter, part-time Governor Kristi Noem muttered something about wanting to make South Dakota housing…
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When Tim Downs resigned from Northern, I noted that his $261K salary is the lowest public-campus presidential salary in South Dakota. That’s still good gravy…
This sounds familiar: the Legislature is convening an interim committee to study workforce housing. Three legislators (Rep. Perry, Sen. Diedrich, Rep. Weisgram) proposed studying why…
South Dakota tourism faces a labor shortage, thanks to coronavirus cutting off our tourist traps’ access to cheap foreign labor and to fewer kids available…
The Legislature got a little skittish about raising the salaries of sitting members of South Dakota’s Executive Branch. Thus, instead of offering Jason Ravnsborg the…
Another black mark of Trumpism was erased yesterday as the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its Agricultural Labor Survey. Last September, the Sonny Perdue…
Amazon is indeed building a new warehouse in Sioux Falls, promising to hire 1,000 workers and giving our elected leaders something to brag about: Sen. John…
In the middle of a long chat this week with a conservative national propagandist podcast (wait—in the midst of a statewide emergency, Governor Kristi Noem…
Last year Republicans killed Representative Erin Healy’s (D-14/Sioux Falls) proposal that the state study—just study—the need for pre-kindergarten education on Speaker Steven Haugaaard’s (R-10/Sioux Falls)…
Is South Dakota’s business model really so anemic that all we have to hang our hope and pride on is the killing and eating of…