Whether you're spending Thursday morning eating $500 pancakes with Kristi Noem and John Boehner at the country club or enjoying free pancakes with the South Dakota Democrats at Sherman Park (oh, the metaphors!), you'll want to hightail it up to…
Posts published in August 2011
Madison's new public works director, Fred Snoderly, must have brought some high-country libertarianism with him from Idaho. In one of his first major acts as a city employee, Snoderly has recommended lifting Madison's watering restrictions. Last night he told the…
Via Grist and Smart Planet, I find the Project for Public Spaces has published a guide for determining whether your city is doing development right. The criteria seem to focus on larger cities rather than small rural communities, but we…
The erudite Mr. Gebhart directs my attention to this fine essay on jock culture, which reminds me of the deep cultural reason I don't want to see our high school renovation swallowed up in another plan to build a new…
Mr. Wiken notes that Rick Perry is campaigning to make Washington "as inconsequential in your lives as I can." That, friends, is the Grover Norquist philosophy in a nutshell. Fill government with people who either don't believe we constitute governments…
Steam Train A-Comin'? Among its actions at last week's monthly meeting, the Madison Central School Board revealed the names of its new High School Facility Committee. The nifty nine: Administrators: superintendent Vince Schaefer, HS principal Sharon Knowlton, activities director Bud…
Below are the results of the vote-buying at yesterday's big Iowa GOP straw poll: Place Candidate Votes Percentage 1 Michele Bachmann 4,823 28.6% 2 Ron Paul 4,671 27.7% 3 Tim Pawlenty 2,293 13.6% 4 Rick Santorum 1,657 9.8% 5 Herman…
Hey, you know that guy Rep. Kristi Noem is bringing here, Rep. John Mica from Florida, to talk flooding in Pierre on Friday? He tried to kill some South Dakota airports this summer. Remember that Federal Aviation Administration shutdown that…