Republicans most likely went looking for a constitutional excuse to can Kathy Tyler because of her outspoken criticism of the EB-5 scandal brought to us by the Rounds-Daugaard regime. But Republicans probably also don't like the former Milbank legislator's criticism…
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Sixteen groups applied last November for workforce development grants from the South Dakota Workforce Initiative. The Workforce Development Council rejected just two of those applications: Madison's and Sioux Falls's. I'm willing to bet that the council rejected Madison's just because…
The Tax Foundation reminds us that South Dakota continues to stay afloat on red-state moocherism. Our conservative one-party state relies on the federal government for a greater percentage of its general revenues than all but three other states: South…
When incoming Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced she was hiring Brown County GOP chairman Jason Williams to serve as her public information officer, I wondered if she was expanding government to make room for what looked like a little…
Hartford just got bus service. Yay, mass transit! Hartford City Administrator Teresa Sidel tells me that Hartford residents can ride a new (well, new to Hartford!) ten-seater bus around town three days a week (MWF), courtesy of Hartford Area Transit…
Shantel Krebs opens 2015 with a splendid example of Republicans promoting big government and regulatory capture. Our new Secretary of State, who takes her oath tomorrow morning at 8 a.m., a week and a day before any other new constitutional…
In a holiday Facebook chat, my crazy cousin Aaron says, 'Taxation is theft!" I respond that taxation is our expression of true Rousseauian liberty (living under rules that we prescribe to ourselves) to provide public goods to sustain civil society…