A traveling correspondent checks in from Sanford Health in Sioux Falls with an odd Web filter note. Clicking around the South Dakota blogosphere, my correspondent logs into a computer in the Sanford lobby... and discovers the following sites blocked by…
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The Sunlight Foundation scores the state legislatures on data openness. South Dakota ends up in the middle of the pack, with a C. Our Legislative website gets extra points for timeliness (though sometimes we're left hanging until the end of…
I'm on the Dakota Rural Action committee that brought you the net-metering bill this Legislative session. Net metering (paying people for the useful surplus power that they produce with renewable power devices) is one way to promote small-scale, community-based energy…
Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) has regularly shown his failure to understand the usefulness of the Internet. But he's showing signs of coming around. He recently unblocked me from his Twitter account. And now he acknowledges that the South Dakota blogosphere…
Let me guess: someone made Pat Powers webmaster? A couple weeks ago, Republican blogger Pat Powers snarked on the South Dakota Democratic Party for not being sufficiently active on their official website. The proper response from Democrats this evening is,…
Because guns are America's God, regulating guns for safety is blasphemy. So rather than interrupt my neighbors' genuflections before the bizzare, weirdly narcissistic, and flatly wrong worship of guns as the source of our freedom, permit me to solve all…
Oh look: Gordon Howie figured out how to create an online survey... sort of. The least effective man in South Dakota conservative politics says he's sent tens of thousands of South Dakota voters this survey on Governor Daugaard's job performance.…
Library professional John Pappas responds to Rapid City alderman Chad Lewis's freak-out over some sleazy citizen accessing porn on a library computer with a simple message: Actually, Pappas says much more than that, all quite sensible. Seeing a politician in…