David Borofsky is a bygone, and I get the feeling most of the staff at Dakota State University are relieved to let this bygone be bygone. But for the record: DSU's last president can finally update his LinkedIn profile... and…
Posts tagged as “Florida”
Some South Dakota conservatives think we should test welfare recipients for drug use. A U.S. District Court judge ruled this week that Florida's welfare drug tests are unconstitutional: Enforcement of the law was temporarily halted in October 2011 after the…
From domineering to dominos: In the last couple months, we've seen a number of Republican governors accede to the impervious logic and decency of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Arch-conservatives and Obama nemeses like Jan Brewer of Arizona and…
Here's another reason the Northern Hills Patriots and other Agenda 21 shouters need to dry up: "sustainability," the Bircher code word for United Nations Marxism, is really about simple things like not running out of water. A new article in…
Rep. Mark Venner (R-24/Pierre) has twice sponsored legislation to test South Dakota's welfare recipients for drugs. S.D. Voices for Children policy expert Greg Boris says Rep. Venner will reintroduce that legislation during the 2013 session (assuming, of course, that Rep.…
An eager reader shares Florida scientist and science popularizer Rob Krampf's discussion of errors in the Science FCAT, a standardized test administered to all Florida fifth and eighth graders. The FCAT is high-stakes testing of the sort that South Dakota…
During the 2010 campaign, Kristi Noem squared her soapbox scorn for the 2009 federal stimulus with her eager votes to save South Dakota's budget with the stimulus by saying that if she and her Legislative colleagues hadn't voted to take…
Florida's Republican Governor-Elect Rick Scott is cutting jobs in the Office of Drug Control created by former Governor Jeb Bush. South Dakota's Republican Governor-Elect Dennis Daugaard inherits from his predecessor a proposal to cut meth treatment programs. I'll invite Mr.…