Besides treason and whininess, here's a practical reason to oppose secession. Yank South Dakota from the Union, and we don't get that cool recreation trail extension to the great public access area on Lake Madison! Governor Dennis Daugaard is handing…
Posts tagged as “Lake County”
The Lake County Democrats are in business! With the big DSU homecoming parade tomorrow, the Dems are opening their new headquarters at one of the best intersections in town, at Washington and North 2nd Street/Highway 34. I'm not sure which…
Last year associates of dairy-disaster-maker Rick Millner purchased the old Swier Dairy near Ramona and renamed it the Lake County Dairy. I warned that if Millner was coming to the county, there was a fair chance that he'd bring his…
The Lake County Commission earns its pay today. The agenda (archived here) includes a whole whack of 2013 budget requests from county departments and outside agencies starting at 10:15 this morning and running past 3:20 this sultry afternoon. The blog…
Young Madison journalist Becky Froelich helps write up Charlie and Allen Johnson's longstanding organic farm operation down in Orland township— —edit: Make that Charlie, Allen, and Aaron Johnson. According to Froelich, Aaron was toiling away selling seed and ag products…
Julie Gross made her first appearance before the Lake County Commission as Lake Area Improvement Corporation handout seeker on Tuesday. She requested $35,000 from county taxpayers. Technically, she made two requests: $10,000 to help cover her salary and other general…
Holy Promotion, Batman! The Big Z is headed to work for Double-D! Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that he will appoint David Zolnowsky of Madison, South Dakota, to be the next Commissioner of the state Bureau of Information and Telecommunications…
Much to my relief, I appear to have made a mistake. I joined some of my neighbors in thinking Madison's wildly unpopular thrift store steering committee would jump at the earliest chance to take its $150,000 subsidy request off the…