Get ready for S&P to downgrade our credit rating even further. As if to prove the credit raters' contention that our political system lacks the common sense to come up with solutions, The Hill's Bob Cusack says that South Dakota…
Posts published in August 2011
Maybe I should lay off Bill Janklow. He's just too easy a target, and he's not in a position to influence policy any more, is he? His power may be waning, but his arrogance is not. The Mitchell Daily Republic…
As noted yesterday, a newly rediscovered state statute that requires churches to pay sales tax on charity food distributions initially drew a hands-off approach from Governor Dennis Daugaard: In a response letter, Daugaard said that to grant the exemption in…
See that Tip Jar in the near sidebar? Click on it, and you can send me money. Now the Madville Times is free: I write it because I love it... and because I love South Dakota. So why would you…
MC is apparently throwing his hands up in despair in the face of the big American credit downgrade. Wondering "What Do We Do Now?" about the S&P's decision that the House Republicans should have taken President Obama's offer of the…
If Dakota War College is done hyperventilating about lemonade stands in other states, perhaps my conservative friends would like to light into South Dakota's newfound love of old regulations that may put charitable organizations out of business. Evidently Pierre has…
MPBRP—that's the sound I made last night after eating salads made with bacon, sausage, and salami. MPBRP is also the Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project the Forest Service is proposing to take care of those pesky pine beetles in the…