I'd love to see the state and the education establishment abandon Common Core and similar exercises in faux-accountability and paperwork. But that won't happen with opponents claiming that Common Core kills Indian kids: We’ve buried eight kids down on that…
Posts tagged as “debate”
Last night's KELO Senate debate was an example of substandard political journalism by South Dakota's broadcast media. Moderators Ben Dunsmoor and Don Jorgensen failed to live up to their own promised format, to manage the debate fairly, or to ask…
Democrat Rick Weiland and Independents Larry Pressler and Gordon Howie spent the final debate of South Dakota's U.S. Senate campaign doing what they should have been doing from Day One of their campaigns: calling Republican Mike Rounds out on his…
Rick Weiland, Larry Pressler, Mike Rounds, and Gordon Howie "debated" on South Dakota Public Broadcasting last night to prove who ought to be South Dakota's next Senator. Here are the most important observations to come from the debate: Gordon Howie…
I apologize: yesterday I said I'd get to some analysis of the Rep. Kristi Noem–Corinna Robinson debate Thursday night on SDPB. Alas, news happens. The ever level-headed Ken Santema took time out from his vigorous campaign for State Treasurer to…
Two pictures tell the story of last night's debate between Corinna Robinson and Rep. Kristi Noem: Corinna Robinson is trying hard, but she can't figure out how to aim her message at the voters. Throughout the debate she kept looking…
The Sioux Falls Rotary Club held a Senate candidates' forum yesterday, and everyone showed up, even GOP front-slumper Mike Rounds, who asserted that he hadn't planned to attend but was freed up because the Rosebud Sioux Tribe disinvited him from…
And now a message from Bryon Noem: We've got a busy few days ahead of us on the campaign trail! My wife Kristi will be participating in two debates in the coming week, starting with the Rapid City Journal Debate…