The Lawrence County Republican Party hosted a candidates forum this evening at the Spearfish Senior Citizens Center. I'm neither Republican nor senior, but party chair Mary Fitzgerald let me in anyway. Thanks, Mary! Speaking at tonight's forum were all of…
Posts published in April 2012
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is working on a plan to consolidate and merge some state campuses... as are numerous other states: On state university campuses across the country, the concept of consolidating campuses and academic assets has gained increasing…
The nice folks at United Opt Out National are fighting corporate education "reform" by advocating a boycott of Pearson Education, Inc. United Opt Out National draws connections between Pearson and the pro-corporate, anti-public-education agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council:…
I like open enrollment. It's the closest a sparsely populated rural state like South Dakota can get to offering practical school choice without shortchanging lower-income students and gutting the public school system (which is really what voucher fantasists want to…
The second round of the French presidential election happens a week from today. Incumbent President and conservative Union for a Popular Movement leader Nicolas Sarkozy faces a stiff challenge from Socialist candidate François Hollande. (With that name, it's like America…
Some people drink. Some people cut. I read Gordon Howie's fake blogroll. Howie has a new spokesmodel for Freedom and Guns and Kicking the Crap out of Commies. Lynne Hix-Disanto appears on Howie's latest re-enactment of Wayne's World to recite…
Public Utilities Commission candidate Matt McGovern has more expertise on energy policy issues than his opponent Commissioner Kristie Fiegen did when Governor Dennis Daugaard handed her the job in 2011. Now McGovern may have discovered a non-energy wedge issue that…