So I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation proposal yesterday. Big deal. Here's the biggest success of my day:She asked for pancakes. I had never made pancakes. (How does a guy go 39 years without making one of the easiest, most…
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You can't judge a building project's commitment to local economic development by its house wrap: landowner Randy Schaefer e-mails to say that the Menards house wrap on the Secure Banking Solutions building going up in his taxpayer-assisted commercial/residential development on…
The Madison Daily Leader gets three of our local superintendents on the record about Governor Rounds's proposed 5% cut to state aid for K-12 education. They don't sound happy, but they aren't jumping off any grain elevators yet. They list…
Detail, official portrait of South Dakota Governor M. Michael Rounds, by Richard R. Miller, 2010 After announcing his proposal to make South Dakota education even poorer, outgoing Governor M. Michael Rounds strolled down the hall of our august State Capitol…
Senator Jason Frerichs (D-Wilmot) opens politely by thanking the governor for his service. But then he goes right to saying that we need to ask people to pay to keep these services alive. Frerichs expresses his hope that Daugaard will…
Governor M. Michael Rounds is in the State Capitol and on SDPB right now telling us how he'd screw education if he were around for another term. Here's my live-blog (hit Refresh/Ctrl+R/F5 for updates!): Actually, Dennis Daugaard gets to lead…
Yesterday the Associated School Boards of South Dakota called on the Legislature to follow the law and increase K-12 education funding by 1.3%. That's a pretty modest request, given that ASBSD's position for the past few years has been to…
Speaking of "reasons to go out of town for almost everything"... Construction proceeds on new Secure Banking Solutions building, Schaefer Plaza, Madison, SD, 2010.12.06 Some hardy fellows were out in yesterday's cold working on the new Secure Banking Solutions building…