Monday's post on personal income growth got me looking at patterns of commuter inflow and outflow in South Dakota. Commuter inflow is the income folks from, say, Lake County, bring home from their jobs in Minnehaha. Commuter outflow is the…
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State Representative Lance Russell's censure for unprofessional and illegal activity as Fall River County state's attorney is troubling to those of us who believe in fair execution of justice. The inability of Rep. Russell's fellow legislators to find his misconduct…
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota unload on the State Legislature with a new report on the sorry state of school funding in our fair state. Among the important points: Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson passed and celebrated a…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released data on personal income growth in 2009. Nationally, after growth of 4.0% in 2008, personal income shrank 1.7% in 2009. Big counties—those with more than a quarter-million people—seemed to take the recession hardest:…
When Will Legislature Hold Special Session to Expel? Here's another one Dakota War College won't touch: Representative Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) has been publicly censured for illegal activity as state's attorney of Fall River County in 2008. The multiple wrongdoings…
The stupidest thing I've heard all day comes not from Kristi Noem but from a former Noem colleague in the South Dakota Legislature, Charlii Gilson from Yankton. (What, do i's at the end of a name correlate with a legislator's…
Blog neighbor Bob Schwartz brings to my attention South Dakota's remarkable lag in cell phone adoption. Now one might think slow uptake of cell phones here on the prairie would be no surprise. We're a sparsely populated state, and it's…
Who ate the post, the server or Pat? Yesterday Mr. Crissman decided to insult taxpayers across the country on Dakota War College by declaring that "Paying Taxes Is NOT Patriotic." The post made so little sense that I got the…