The TIF campaign is on in Meade County. Meade County Taxpayers for Responsible Government gathered over 1,200 signatures (they needed 762) to refer the county's tax increment financing plan for a proposed bypass from the Buffalo Chip Campground to I-90…
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Meade County Commissioners have what seems like a good transportation idea: they'd like to build a bypass east of Sturgis to connect state Highways 34 and 79 straight south to Interstate 90: This east bypass would run from the Elkview…
Republican Tammy Basel announced her candidacy for District 29 House last week. The Union Center woman raises sheep with her blogging husband Dallis out by Union Center. I called candidate Basel, angling for a few provocative quotes revealing another wild-eyed…
In a day sure to be filled with statistics (Nielsen ratings, beer sales, third-meow conversions...), my attention turns to electoral data that may connect U.S. Senate candidates Larry Rhoden and Rick Weiland. Back in 1996, the dark days when Larry…
I've met failed (and potential?) House candidate Stephanie Strong. She's a cheerful, friendly lady who's always been eagerly polite to me. In person, she makes me want to be nice to her. But politically, on paper, she makes me want…
Just west of Exit 30, after witnessing the roadside glory of Sturgis, I-90 motorists see an invitation to shirk their civic duty by building their business in the Sturgis Industrial Park. As if the natural splendor of Vanocker Canyon isn't…
Robert Heidgerken is a popular Meade County Republican. He won his seat on the Meade County Commission in 2010 with nearly 72% of the vote. Chairman Heidgerken also agrees with me that we should replace South Dakota's Rube-Goldberg productivity-based agricultural…
I don't know if they're black, but helicopters controlled by a hostile foreign entity will be flying over South Dakota within a few days surveying an invasion route. These helicopters will be surveying land that the foreign entity intends to…