My friend Frank Kloucek notes that neighbors in Tyndall and Yankton have a chance today to get educated about tax-based incentives. Kloucek sends a press release noting that Iowa State University economist David Swenson will speak today on "The Rationale,…
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Another South Dakota newspaper editor throws the B.S. flag at Republican Senate candidate Mike Rounds on the EB-5 scandal: YCO editor Brian J. Hunhoff pens the above cartoon to accompany an editorial giving South Dakota a failing grade on open…
Here's something else that Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and every Republican running for Sen. Tim Johnson's seat would take away from South Dakota by repealing the Affordable Care Act: a $1.3 million grant for increased health care services…
Permit me to disabuse readers of the notion that teachers unions have too much power in South Dakota. In the Yankton School District, teachers reported to work on August 14, yet they had no contract until last night, when their…
Sister Simone Campbell came to Yankton this week to talk about health care, the Affordable Care Act, and the Catholic commitment to social justice. The Catholic nun said in the press and in her lecture at Mount Marty College last…
The Displaced Plainsman offers a mixed review of Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland's performance at a public meeting in Yankton yesterday: Weiland is an earnest speaker. His style seems well suited to retail politics. I want to believe the man.…
Speaking of corporate fascism, big dairies are getting another government handout from South Dakota. Planning and Development District III is spending taxpayer dollars to identify good locations in its 16-county jurisdiction for mega-dairies and other concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).…
Madison's downtown development task force should take a look at the conversation Yankton reporter Nathan Johnson and entrepreneur Ben Hanten are promoting in Yankton. On his blog An Inland Voyage, Nathan Johnson has published three posts this week on great…