Has anyone else noticed that when KELO's anchorpeople step out from behind the Big News desk, they do the worst journalism? First Angela Kennecke gags us with her puff piece on Kristi Noem's roast. (And seriously, Kristi: you get a…
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Speaking of small-town economic development, I sold my first big painting this spring! Here I am at home in April with Summer Reverie, a splashy adventure I created outside here on the sunny shore of Lake Herman. And here is…
The Huron mayoral recall push should be a simple matter of right and wrong. Wrong: Mayor Dave McGirr and his fellow city commissioners, who suspended police chief Doug Schmitt for exercising his First Amendment rights and apparently drove him to…
The City of Madison plans to approve a sales tax kickback for Custom Touch Homes at tonight's commission meeting. This kickback fails the smell test on numerous levels: favoritism to one company, transferring public money for private profit, raiding other…
Discover the Unexpected... government transfer of wealth.... I knew it! The dog ordinances on Monday's Madison City Commission agenda are a ruse to distract us from the corporate welfare our commissioners plan to hand out. Madison is taking sales tax…
If you've already read Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America, you already know everything I'm about to say... and much more. Fellow small-towner Michael Woodring shares Dr. Brown's pessimism about Governor Daugaard's small-town economic development plans: The railroads (the reason…
There are 1123 people in Madison who are not in Madison. Roll with me on this local illusion. During last week's school board election, I noticed an odd bump in the voter registration numbers: Ward 1, northeast Madison: 3211 registered…
Blog neighbor Doug Maurstad continues to marvel at the shifting stories from the Hyperion windbags who claim they can build a profitable oil refinery in his beloved Union County. He says that instead of supporting Texas pipe dreams, we'd be…