As I listen and re-listen to the highlights of Governor Dennis Daugaard's budget address, I hear some important sentences that tell us a lot about the governor's budgetary and political paradigm. There's an odd combination of not passing the buck…
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Jon Hunter and I agree: the South Dakota State legislature starts too early and too slowly. State law requires the governor to submit a budget to the Legislature by the first Tuesday after the first Monday of December. The state…
Loose on Religion, Uptight on Homosexuals ThePostSD.com alerts us to another reason we might have trouble convincing some young people to stick around on the prairie. The Daily Beast spent Martin Luther King Day calculating how tolerant the states of…
...of course, for me, this just means higher property tax. The Portland Cement Association finds South Dakota is one of five states where the housing market will rebound fastest. Rebound? From what? PCA says our housing prices still increased 0.5%…
South Dakota artist Dick Termes has some civic art in mind: he wants to redesign our state flag. Right now, South Dakota flies this wholly unsatisfying banner: What's wrong with this flag? Words don't belong on a flag. The flag…
Way back during the 2010 primary, in a live online chat with Kevin Woster on Mount Blogmore, candidate Kristi Noem cited her strong support of Congressman Paul Ryan's budget roadmap, a signal Tea-flavored Republicans would reasonably read as a signal…
TransCanada's Keystone pipeline system is now up to five reported leaks in our neighborhood. According to a National Response Center incident report tracked down by Ms. La Seur at Plains Justice, Pump Station #20 up in the Andover-Ferney metroplex here…
State Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) demonstrates his weak grasp of the Constitution, not to mention lack of South Dakota hospitality. In response to questions about an ACLU lawsuit challenging South Dakota's discriminatory restriction on non-citizens obtaining concealed weapons…