Reaganomics makes me sick. But wait, it's not just me; it's the whole society. According to an argument highlighted by Yankton reporter Nathan Johnson, the rise of neoliberal economics—you know, the "material values and individualism" preached by the Church of…
Posts published in April 2011
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota unload on the State Legislature with a new report on the sorry state of school funding in our fair state. Among the important points: Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson passed and celebrated a…
Last year's BP oil rig explosion and spill are still having numerous health, environmental, and economic impacts. Among the lesser known neurological impacts: political amnesia. It appears that Big Oil can cause Intern Kristi Noem and her Republican colleagues on…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released data on personal income growth in 2009. Nationally, after growth of 4.0% in 2008, personal income shrank 1.7% in 2009. Big counties—those with more than a quarter-million people—seemed to take the recession hardest:…
Not everyone in Yankton is as ignorant of the state constitution and the value of free public education as former legislator Charlii Gilson. A number of Gilson's Yankton neighbors are collaborating on a website to promote a Yes vote in…
March brought little change in local unemployment numbers. According to the latest figures from the South Dakota Department of Labor, Lake County added 35 jobs in March, but also saw 40 more people jump into the labor pool. That brought…
My friend Mr. Kurtz regularly discusses "red-state failure." He'll find another brief for his red-state failure folder in Nathan Johnson's latest blog post. Reporter Johnson reads some science and learns that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are more likely to…