Spearfish is renewing its push to annex the Upper and Lower Valley, the populous yet tranquil and quasi-agricultural neighborhood on the north side of town between Black Hills State University and Exits 8 and 10 of Interstate 29 (see map…
Posts published in June 2013
Unwilling to shoulder responsibility for her legislative failure, Congresswoman Kristi Noem is peddling the fantasy that President Barack Obama caused the House to vote down the Farm Bill yesterday: Noem told reporters that House leaders believed they had enough votes…
Rick Weiland posts "Why I'm Running" on Down with Tyranny. His main raison de se présenter: fighting for fairness against big money: Republicans think they have a lock on the red states, but we are going to give them a…
Madison's downtown development task force should take a look at the conversation Yankton reporter Nathan Johnson and entrepreneur Ben Hanten are promoting in Yankton. On his blog An Inland Voyage, Nathan Johnson has published three posts this week on great…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem is "incredibly disappointed"; she's also incredibly impotent. She and Speaker John Boehner failed to pass the Farm Bill in the House yesterday, primarily because one out of four House Republicans told Noem and Boehner to go jump…
When Germany says the United States is acting like the Stasi, it's clear that our hysterical pursuit of security is eroding whatever bump in international credibility we got by replacing George W. Bush with Barack Obama. German ministers are expressing…
The National Council on Teacher Quality issued an evaluation of teacher training programs this week. They said USD, DSU, and Northern do a pretty good job of training high school teachers but that, like most teacher training programs nationwide, our…
Another shell moves into place in the real estate game my eager Madison readers first brought to light in November 2011 and that Senator Russ Olson (R-8/Wentworth) confirmed at a candidate forum last fall. According to Bob Mercer, Board of…