Governor Dennis Daugaard issued a press release right before firecrackers celebrating South Dakota's fiscal situation. He made three blogworthy statements fraught with meaning. Governor Daugaard reports that we ended the fiscal year with $13 million of our state budget unspent.…
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Sometimes Bob Mercer gives me the feeling that he's a tool of the Pierre establishment. And then Bob Mercer whacks the Pierre establishment upside the head. Mercer appears, like much of the South Dakota press, to be taking seriously the…
M. Michael Rounds has released his first batch of T.V. campai—er, insurance advertisements for the 2014 Senate race. Here's one featuring The Dunes golf course owner Cullan Deis: Fischer, Rounds & Associates: Socializing risk for rich people who build in…
The 1950s must have been an exciting time to be alive. Asimov and Heinlein were leading a golden age of science fiction. The new magic of television set homes aglow with technological wonder. And in South Dakota, the Legislature declared…
Bill Janklow made the news last week by closing his state campaign account and converting nearly $852,000 in old campaign donations to personal use. (Any of you old donors have a beef with that?) A month ago, another former South…
This week, reporter Bob Mercer declared that Governor Mike Rounds's effort to realize Bill Janklow's vision of converting the Homestake mine into a world-class research facility would be recognized as the greatest achievement of the Rounds administration. In a November…
This week, reporter Bob Mercer declared that Governor Mike Rounds's effort to realize Bill Janklow's vision of converting the Homestake mine into a world-class research facility would be recognized as the greatest achievement of the Rounds administration. In a November…
Detail, official portrait of South Dakota Governor M. Michael Rounds, by Richard R. Miller, 2010 After announcing his proposal to make South Dakota education even poorer, outgoing Governor M. Michael Rounds strolled down the hall of our august State Capitol…