Good grief: can we work anywhere anymore without giving up our basic Constitutional rights? Mr. Ehrisman alerts me to the Sioux Falls School District's effort to nullify the Fourth Amendment for its teachers: The local teachers union opposes a proposed…
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I noted hard school budget decisions at Yankton and Rapid City earlier this week. Now a friend on Facebook shares the following list of impacts of Governor Dennis Daugaard's K-12 budget cuts on the Beresford school district: Beresford has determined…
Nicholas Kristof argued in Saturday's New York Times that we should pay teachers more. He cited a study by Stanford's Eric Hanushek (discussed last December on this blog) that found that the best teachers can raise a student's lifetime earnings…
How's that for a shot in the economic arm? About 70 workers reporting to the Madison facility on Thursday got $1800 profit-sharing checks from the company. Division VP/GM Lon Stroschien says Aerostar will also start reimbursing employees for membership dues…
I was going to write that the economic stats at the back of this month's Prairie Business show more evidence of the hollowing out of rural South Dakota. The PB jobs chart shows South Dakota losing more than 7000 jobs…
Rasmussen Reports must be getting numbers Karl Rove doesn't like on the GOP Presidential race. Today RR diverts our attention with a poll on---urp!---Charlie Sheen. Pile that on top of three Charlie references in today's Senate debate on HB 1255,…
The South Dakota Department of Labor reports that unemployment in Lake County rose in January to 5.8%, up from 5.4% in December. But pick up Friday's Madison Daily Leader, and you'll see this headline: "County Unemployment Falls Slightly in 2010."…
Perry Groten reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard and his chums at the National Governors' Association meeting in Washington, D.C., are warning Congress not to gum up the works of the economic recovery: At their annual winter meeting in the nation's…