Today's school bond election in Brookings is the first roll-out of new "vote centers" that allow voters to cast their ballot at any polling station in the jurisdiction. This is great (particularly when the Precinct 1 polling station actually resides…
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Brookings entrepreneur Scott Meyer is somewhat concerned about the brewing scandal involving the Governor's Office of Economic Development, SDRC Inc., the EB-5 visa investor program, former GOED director Richard Benda, and former Governor Marion Michael Rounds. But Meyer is more…
Under the authority of this year's Senate Bill 235, Governor Dennis Daugaard handed out another $1.8 million this month to various communities and businesses around the state for economic development. These funds follow a quarter million handed out to 3M…
My family and I enjoyed a visit to McCrory Gardens last week. Some jerk followed up with an unauthorized motorized visit in the rain this weekend: "It rained nearly 4 inches over the weekend and someone had the audacity to…
Facebook friend and Brookings product Matt Hildreth points me toward Livability.com's list of the top ten small towns in America. Spearfish doesn't make the list, but the Spearfish of East River, Brookings, places fifth! Brookings might have been first if…
It's crazy enough to make me think I was being spoofed... but a reader's tip proves to be true. Apparently Easter festivities at the Brookings Swiftel Center include an Easter Egg hunt Saturday morning, followed by cage fighting in the…
The South Dakota Legislature has passed a FY2014 budget increasing state aid to K-12 general education by 4.9%, to $330 million. That's still 1.5% less than the amount appropriated in the FY2009 budget. The public school lobbyists think the Legislature…