The Mitchell school district and the Wagner economic development corporation are heading opposite directions with the workforce development grants they recently won from the state. The Mitchell school district has gotten a number of area school districts—Ethan, Hanson, Mount Vernon,…
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Last summer, Governor Dennis Daugaard expressed concern that the 21 vaccinated and screened child refugees placed in South Dakota posed a health risk to our fair state. Governor Daugaard should have been more concerned about the health risk posed by…
Stace Nelson dooms his candidacy by putting Heidelberger in his first TV ad... ...my crazy cousin Aaron Heidelberger, that is. He's the guy in the red shirt. Smartly, Stace and his production crew keep the ad off full-reserve banking and…
The statewide texting-while-driving ban passed by our Legislature this year is inspiring Mitchell to repeal its local ordinance on electronically distracted driving. The new state law makes texting while driving a secondary offense, meaning troopers can't pull you over for…
The Department of Legislative Audit turns from the crony-capitalist pork palace to the Mitchell Corn Palace. Auditor General Marty Guindon finds that Corn Palace management has failed to follow proper procedures and/or city rules in counting, securing, and documenting money…
Ronald Fuchs should be the face of the Medicaid expansion debate in South Dakota. The Mitchell man is a regular guy, age 63, suffering from various maladies that make it hard for him to work. Still, he can't get disability…
Former legislator Rod Hall renews his challenge to perennially vacillating legislative aspirant and educational not-so-goodnik Joe Graves in a letter to the Mitchell Daily Republic. Graves, superintendent of the Mitchell school district, sent up trial balloons in 2004 and 2008…