South Dakota's budget crunch is coming in part because of increased enrollment and costs in Medicaid. It's funny, then, that South Dakota is trying to block one way to fix that fiscal problem: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
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In an alternative universe, we are preparing to swear in Thad Wasson as our next Congressman. Alas, he cut his campaign short, leaving us always to wonder whether he could have provided more blog fodder than Kristi Noem. But in…
Father Tim celebrates the apparent decline of vice in South Dakota. The Northern Plains Anglican reads in that Sioux Falls paper that video lottery revenue in the three weeks following implementation of the voter-approved indoor smoking ban dropped 19.1%. Good…
That darned Madison Daily Leader beat me to the local unemployment numbers for November! According to the South Dakota Department of Labor, Lake County saw unemployment rise in the run-up to the holidays, from 4.6% in October to 5.0% in…
GPTSP points out a fun little rhetorical knot from TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, who argues that the debate over his company's proposed Keystone XL pipeline should have no connection with the debate over the tar sands it will carry: "I…
Glenn Beck exhorts his little 9-12 clubs to shout "We surround them!" In Iowa, once a month, the Glenn Beck clubs will get to shout, "We surround the governor!" WingNUTT Mike Studer of the Spencer Tea Party reports that Governor-Elect…
What's that under my tree? Christmas bills! Yahoo! Start your RSS engines: the first pieces of legislation to be proposed in the 2011 session of the South Dakota State Legislature are in the e-hopper. First in from the State House:…
Vote now in the latest Madville Times poll: How will you vote on Madison's $16.98 million new gym/high school renovation bond issue? See right sidebar—poll closes Wed 8 a.m.! Poll now closed; see results here! Apparently my concerns about Madison…