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Community, Business, and Life on Fire: TEDx Brookings Happens Saturday!

Holy cow! People are going to pay real money to hear me talk. I'd better work on that speech.... The second TEDx Brookings event—themed "On Fire"—happens Saturday, October 4, at the SDSU Performing Arts Center. Warm-up activities (among other things,…

Haber and Bosworth Co-Opt Libertarian Pot Rally in Brookings

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned a Brookings correspondent's report that Chad Haber and Annette Bosworth had lured students to a campaign event with an ad in the SDSU Collegian promoting marijuana legalization. The comment section lit up with a…

SDDP Ad in Brookings Paper: What’s Tidemann Hiding?

Hey, whose phone is that ringing? Ah, Senator Tidemann.... The South Dakota Democratic Party is placing the above ad in Senator Larry Tidemann's local newspaper encouraging his constituents to contact him and demand that he subpoena the folks who could…

Brookings Councilman Bezdichek: Ban Plastic Bags! Powers: “Nanny State!”

Brookings city councilman Tom Bezdichek would like to ban single-use plastic shopping bags. Pat Powers screams "Nanny state! Nanny state!" Seattle, San Francisco, and D.C. have banned plastic shopping bags. Chicago is implementing a partial plastic-bag ban. New York City…

Cuba Caravan Program in Brookings Friday

Let's go to Cuba! Brookings Pax Christi is hosting a potluck and program to support the "Caravan to Cuba" project. For 25 years, Pastors for Peace has been organizing relief trips to Cuba to protest the anti-Castro embargo the United…

John Fishback on Moral Hazard, Cottonwood Coffee, and Debate Coaches

Did someone say "moral hazard"? Time for some brain TV! "Tie-wearing management consultant" (his description) and really smart Brookings dude (mine) John Fishback presented the following talk at the first TEDx Brookings event in February. He talks about the term…