Whoo-hoo! Scott Meyer and friends are beginning to post videos from last month's TEDxBrookings event! Here's my talk on blogging, identity, and community in South Dakota: I know many of you love text as much as I do, so here's…
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It's Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queens all over the country. That means big doings in Madison, where Dairy Queen owner DeLon Mork will try for the ninth year in a row to lead the nation in Blizzard Sales for…
[adapted from my latest South Dakota Magazine column!] Back in March, I looked at Leadership South Dakota and wondered if the program might just be the power elites herding our future leaders into the proper good-old-boy pens. Good old boy…
Ah, Madison. Two years ago, we Madisonites had all sorts of fun discussing one group's plan to spend $1,050,000 to build a big community thrift store on South Egan Avenue on the site of the old Jensen Motors building. Confronted…
Graduating senior Rebecca Froelich bids Madison High School goodbye and offers some advice to incoming Bulldog freshmen: Get to know Madison, South Dakota. Most of you want to get out of here. But as long as you’re here, why not?…
This semester, I directed Spearfish Middle School's first theatrical production in decades. (No one remembers when the last one was.) I decided that, along with teaching the kids the basics of good acting, it wouldn't hurt to include a little…
House Bill 1173, the conservative plan to bankrupt South Dakota's public schools by funneling their money to foreign madrassas, lies languishing the hopper, awaiting the hurried attention of House Taxation. Update: HB 1173 is on the House Taxation committee agenda…
I haven't rewatched It's a Wonderful Life yet this year, but I get a little verklempt just thinking about it. I wonder if maybe we ought to show Frank Capra's masterpiece on July 4 as well as Christmas. Robert Reich…