Eager reader Jana noticed that the combination of the Contribute and Volunteer buttons on M. Michael Rounds's Senate campaign website hearkens to the pink-on-red equal sign folks are using to signal their support for marriage equality: "Mike is covering his…
Posts published in June 2013
Mr. Kallis quotes Justice Scalia's excellent dissent from the privacy-trashing majority in Maryland v. King: Today's judgment will, to be sure, have the beneficial effect of solving more crimes; then again, so would the taking of DNA samples from anyone…
Dr. Annette Bosworth for U.S. Senate? If so, we may be in for an exercise in campaign communications sloppier than Rick Weiland's Tumblr page. From online appearances, someone on Team Bosworth thought it would be brilliant press strategy to announce…
Student learning depends twice as much on family characteristics as on anything that happens in school. Income inequality has more to do with how well our kids do in school than standardized tests or teacher evaluations. So why does the…
Public-relations-challenged Bill Clayton gets to continue promoting his racist, birther, theocrat ideas from the dais of the Rapid City City Council. Former councilman Gary Brown wanted to oust Clayton via recall. He hired activist Emmett Reistroffer to gather signatures on…
KELO tells us that Walmart is trying to play good neighbor by making some changes to its proposed store at 85th and South Minnesota just outside the current boundaries of Sioux Falls: Walmart is now back at the table with…
Rick Melmer is leaving USD's College of Education to do more of the consulting work that he finds so profitable. But as he leaves, he suggests top students considering teaching as a career will put service over profit: Rick Melmer,…
School and Public Lands Commissioner Jarrod Johnson recognizes how the federal crop insurance program (which crop insurance salesman's wife Kristi Noem wants to expand) causes farmers to plow up land that's better for other uses than crops. Now South Dakota…