When Steve Sibson takes his meds and stops screaming about Masons, he can make some great points. For example, Sibson perfectly skewers the self-serving inconsistency of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce in its opposition to both Referred Law 14…
Posts published in December 2011
The South Dakota Board of Regents boasts that South Dakota has reversed "brain drain." This new Regents' study on net migration of new high school grads finds that while 1,564 of South Dakota's 9,142 2008 HS graduates (17%) went out…
Gordon Howie may not know how to format his online work (Gord, use bold or italics for emphasis; save the underlining for hyperlinks), but he's working the Web to solicit donations for a right-wing insurgency in 2012. Yesterday I noted…
The erudite Mr. Gibilisco cites a post from the mappy-snappy Per Square Mile blog. Just a few posts set my brain spinning: In his post on how current income inequality in the U.S. exceeds that found in the Roman Empire…
Indulge me... Liberal Democratic thought seems to be fading from the political scene. That might be about to change. In the South Dakota Republican Party, charges of corruption and political "bullying" have been compounded by an apparent departure from their…
Remember the grousing around Lake County back around the beginning of 2010 when school superintendents at Madison and Chester resigned, then got rehired so they could start collecting retirement benefits while still taking their salaries before the Legislature nixed that…
Senator Thune announces we're getting a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, plus rushed Keystone XL approval: Two months. Two months?! How the heck am I and millions of other job doers supposed to drive an economic recovery with…