The City of Brookings has enacted the latest local texting ban in South Dakota. Ordinance 31-12 took effect last Monday, but Brookings police apparently needed a few more days of training before starting to enforce the texting ban on Friday.…
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Rep. Scott Munsterman (R-7/Brookings) is looking for ways to improve education. At last Tuesday's Brookings school board meeting, he floated a program he's calling "Teaching and Learning Across the Community." Apparently he's working with some SDSU education profs to put…
If I'm reading the opening of this paywalled Brookings Register article correctly, Dwaine Chapel has been promoted from interim to permanent executive director of the Innovation Campus in Brookings. Chapel told the Brookings City Commission last week that "though the…
The state Department of Education has posted average ACT scores for South Dakota school districts during last school year. We only get data for schools with ten or more takers, to avoid possibly tying actual scores with individual students. Out…
Matt Groce astutely points out that Madison's successful effort to get Global Polymer Industries to move from Arlington to Madison is less an instance of Madison beating Arlington than of Madison beating Brookings. Steve Sanchez then points to the enlightening…
Here's another event Kristi Noem will be skipping, even though it's free and open to the public: The Brookings County Dems host their big annual picnic Thursday, August 23, at the Community Life Center in Brookings! Food, fun, t-shirts, and…
Some of my friends in Brookings have started a movement called Fast for the Earth. They call the campaign "a nonviolent protest against wanton disregard for the natural world and a spiritual affirmation that all of us are part of…