Yankton County said no thanks to this latest intrusion on the free market, but the South Dakota Department of Agriculture has found enough other interested counties to launch its site analysis program: This program is designed to help counties plan…
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That Sioux Falls paper gets on the stick and discusses the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and Democrats' plan to place on the 2014 ballot an initiative to raise South Dakota's minimum wage. Reporter Kelly Thurman presents some useful numbers for framing the…
Uwe Reinhardt teaches economics at Princeton and writes about health care for the New York Times. He knows a lot about economics and health care. In an interview with Robert Siegel on NPR Friday (plus a companion blog post on…
Pat Powers admits he's more of a big-government liberal than I am. In fronting for the crony capitalism South Dakota practices in the name of "economic development," Powers declares the following: Our legislature needs to form a replacement plan for…
Permit me to highlight two opposing schools of thought on Rep. Kristi Noem's failure to get the Farm Bill done for South Dakota. If you agree with South Dakota's lone Congresswoman that food is a national security issue and that…
Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan wants to turn Medicare into a private voucher program. Kristi Noem has supported Ryan's Medicare privatization since 2010, even though she'll deny the facts of the plan to your face. Vice President Joe Biden says…
The Republican Party is increasingly dominated by extremist voices who claim government is always bad and that every problem is better solved by God and the free market (two invisible hands often comingled, contra Scripture and Adam Smith). In my…
Update 15:48 MST: I stand corrected by my attentive commenters. Governor Daugaard is still away in China, likely assuring our Eastern overlords that he will continue to advocate for the Keystone XL pipeline, which will help China get more North…