Posts like this, questioning the corporate media, are why KELO dropped Dr. Newquist and other freethinkers from its blogroll. The inimitable Dr. Newquist beats the living daylight out of Premier Bankcard's effort to blame its layoffs on government regulations. Newquist…
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There are still some sane Republicans. Newly full-time Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels rejects Tea Party government-bashing and tells his Yankton neighbors that the government is us: Another purpose of government is to take care of people who cannot take care…
Has anyone else noticed that when KELO's anchorpeople step out from behind the Big News desk, they do the worst journalism? First Angela Kennecke gags us with her puff piece on Kristi Noem's roast. (And seriously, Kristi: you get a…
Here is a profoundly hard question for all of us rural folks to tackle: What are rural communities for? Mike Knutson of the Rural Learning Center in Howard is grappling with this question in front of an audience today at…
Madison Central has two more teaching positions it can reduce through attrition if it wants to. Husband and wife teaching duo Mat and Wendy Nelson have notified the school district that they are leaving to work in Minnesota. Wendy teaches…
That Sioux Falls paper does some good journalism this weekend, posting results of its survey of South Dakota school districts on how they are coping with the Daugaard budget cuts. 74 of our 154 school districts responded, representing 75% of…
Haycation? Try raycation. USA Today features Edgemont's Sunrise Guest Ranch as a great place for a rural vacation. Country Living editor Jourdan Crouch mentions the organic dude ranch's trail rides, buffalo and turkey hunts, and the nice view of the…
Three prominent South Dakota legislators are asking the state attorney general to determine whether cuts to the state's Cooperative Extension Service violate federal law. Rep. Frank Kloucek (D-19/Scotland), Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron), and Sen. Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) have asked A.G.…