Governing posts Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing job growth over the past twelve months in all fifty states. Without counting North Dakota's dangerous and poorly regulated Bakken job boom, South Dakota is slogging along in the middle among its…
Posts published in November 2014
Governor Dennis Daugaard deserves all the guff we can give him for reneging on his no-new-taxes promise to consider a gasoline-tax increase. Acknowledging that we don't spend enough on our roads and bridges is an important repudiation of the Republican…
Pat Powers really doesn't like looking in the mirror. Larry Kurtz announces a new blogging venture, the Dakota Progressive, a forum "affiliated" with the South Dakota Democratic Party and intended to "compete with the SDGOP blog, Dakota War College." I'm…
South Dakota law enforcement alarmed the state into a manhunt yesterday morning following a multiple shooting in Sisseton: State and local Law Enforcement are searching for Colter Richard Arbach, 22, Sissteton, the subject in a quadruple homicide. The shooting incident…
Iowa Democrats didn't get beat up as badly as South Dakota Democrats in the midterms. Iowa Democrats lost some but not all statewide races, and they still hold a slim majority in their State Senate. But they are talking seriously…
The Legislature's Ag Land Assessment Task Force gets me to notice a tiny portion of our agricultural land assessment rules that show South Dakota thinking like Earl Butz, telling farmers to get big or get out... of agricultural land classification.…
I must have missed the Pierre press release on this one.... Forbes this month issued its ranking of the Best States for Business for 2014: Rank State Business Costs Rank Labor Supply Rank Regulatory Environment Rank Economic Climate Rank Growth…