Kevin Woster reports that GOP U.S. Senate candidate is planning to head for East River to campaign. Better hurry up: Rhoden's Q4 FEC report shows he's sorely lacking in cash from his potential East River constituents. Of , Rhoden has…
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I hear the newest U.S. Senate candidate, Republican Jason Ravnsborg, is already out touring the state, making some private visits to potential key supporters. He'd better hustle if he wants to catch up with Rick Weiland. The only declared Democrat…
Todd Epp wrote an interesting summary last week of a new study on regional personality. South Dakota falls into a region of "friendly and conventional" people spanning the Midwest and South. Out West, reserachers find more "relaxed and creative" folks,…
In classical political parlance, liberals favor change, while conservatives prefer to stick with the status quo. Let's apply that oversimplification to how South Dakota voted this week on ballot issues. Given four amendments, two referenda, and one initiated measure, we…
On every side now the prairie stretched away empty to a far, clear skyline. The wind never stopped blowing, waving the tall prairie grasses. —Laura Ingalls Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake, 1939 Mary Garrigan reports that the South…
Here's some potentially good news for Madison and Lake County... assuming you think bigger is better. According to Census Bureau estimates, from April 2010 to July 2011, Lake County was the fourth-fastest growing county in South Dakota. During that time,…
Larry "Statehood for Mexico!" Kurtz will love this. The Bakken oil boom is putting a two-billion-dollar surplus in North Dakota's state coffers. Our northerly neighbor runs on a two-year budget, so that's a billion dollars a year. A billion dollars…
Back in March, we learned that South Dakota ranks second for risk of government corruption and third for public corruption convictions. Now the Los Angeles Times reports that two researchers have found a correlation between government corruption and geographic isolation…