Governor Dennis Daugaard groans and moans that his motto won't let him expand Medicaid under the blessedly Constitutional Affordable Care Act: The governor said expanding Medicaid "is something I'm not very enthusiastic about." "In a state like South Dakota, people…
Posts tagged as “community”
Classified Hookah didn't last long in Rapid City... and there doesn't appear to be a single government regulation we can blame. Instead, conservatives looking for another smoky cause célèbre will have to blame the tyranny of the mob—also known as…
Nathan Johnson posts brilliantly on the importance of preserving a community's history and its landmarks. He celebrates the conversion of Yankton's Meridian Bridge into a unique pedestrian trail: ...while there are a few people who still complain it is a…
Professor/pol Jon Lauck makes the New York Post to comment on the decline of rural communities in South Dakota: "This is not a mysterious process," says Jon Lauck, who has a Ph.D. in the history of South Dakota and serves…
It's Swarm Days here in Spearfish. No, no, it's not that bad. Some college kids played football. A band played music for tailgaters across the creek. Bands did not, alas, play in the Black Hills State University homecoming parade, at…
Oh, now I get what Sibby was talking about when he referred to the grand opening of the Rural Learning Center's Maroney Commons as "the communist takeover of Howard." The $6.5-million conference center, which has created a bunch of new…
Some day, expect DeLon Mork to write (or have ghost-written.... and DeLon, I know a literary guy who can help you with that!) a best-selling book on how to succeed in business. While we wait for that tome, USA Today…
Via Grist and Smart Planet, I find the Project for Public Spaces has published a guide for determining whether your city is doing development right. The criteria seem to focus on larger cities rather than small rural communities, but we…