If I'm reading the opening of this paywalled Brookings Register article correctly, Dwaine Chapel has been promoted from interim to permanent executive director of the Innovation Campus in Brookings. Chapel told the Brookings City Commission last week that "though the campus has had no new tenants since his last report in July, his office is currently working with seven or eight 'quantifiable leads' [Charis Prunty's words].
I check the Innovation Campus's News and Events page and find there is no news. The last event posted there was Chapel's hiring in February. Since then, crickets.
All potential, no achievement... welcome to the Noem-ocracy.
The Argus stunned me again today with its bizarre editorial pandering to Noem for dropping her leadership role in their hope that she will make South Dakota's business in Congress a higher priority. It reminded me of the Argus' left-handed endorsement of her re-election that left everyone wondering "um, isn't there a first class candidate on the ballot to take Noem's place????"
There was, Matt Varilek, and he lost to the tide of rip-and-tear ads launched against him in the last days of the election. I'm not whining South Dakota's lost opportunity to send an alert, qualified and more intelligent representative to Washington. I'm just amazed at the Argus struggling to make its dramatically low standards to appear normal.
I agree, Cory, that it's time our state raised the bar on what we expect. A dumbed down democracy is, indeed, a Noem-ocracy.
SD lawgivers adding funding for graduates in earth hatred:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SD-lawmakers-endorse-university-funding-plan-4033465.php
Maybe with all this talk of secession going on, we could get Noem to seceed from SD. lol
Hee hee, Joan!