I had supper at the 41st and Shirley McDonald's in Sioux Falls tonight, a block west from Barnes and Noble. The place certainly looks fancier than when Mom and Dad took me there on our Sioux Falls grocery trips—oh my!—35…
Posts published in April 2011
When Will Legislature Hold Special Session to Expel? Here's another one Dakota War College won't touch: Representative Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) has been publicly censured for illegal activity as state's attorney of Fall River County in 2008. The multiple wrongdoings…
Meeting your opponents halfway is not an inherently good solution. Rep. Paul Ryan and Intern Kristi Noem are staking out right-wing positions so extreme, toward destructive privatization of vital social functions and abandonment of moral obligations to the old, sick,…
The stupidest thing I've heard all day comes not from Kristi Noem but from a former Noem colleague in the South Dakota Legislature, Charlii Gilson from Yankton. (What, do i's at the end of a name correlate with a legislator's…
Something else Intern Kristi Noem is cutting: support for sustainable agriculture: In the recent budget bill passed by Congress, ATTRA, a 35-year-old program that has provided knowledge and training to new and existing farmers looking for information on how to…
Blog neighbor Bob Schwartz brings to my attention South Dakota's remarkable lag in cell phone adoption. Now one might think slow uptake of cell phones here on the prairie would be no surprise. We're a sparsely populated state, and it's…
Who ate the post, the server or Pat? Yesterday Mr. Crissman decided to insult taxpayers across the country on Dakota War College by declaring that "Paying Taxes Is NOT Patriotic." The post made so little sense that I got the…
Intern Kristi Noem is holding a real public meeting tonight in Brandon! Whoo-hoo! Unlike her "Aren't We Special" closed meeting with Madison's elites yesterday, this town hall at the Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center is open to anyone who wants…