The state Department of Labor miked up Governor Dennis Daugaard and took some video of his South Dakota sales pitch at the Mall of America a couple weeks ago. That Sioux Falls paper privileges us with a look: I'm sure…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard got at least one Minneapolis reporter to come watch him conduct his publicity stunt in the Mall of America Monday. "Daugaard was there to pitch and persuade, not talk to the media," notes reporter Lee Schafer, who…
Eric Abrahamson notes on the Black Hills Knowledge Network that South Dakota saw a substantial increase in the number of quitters over the past several years. A new CDC report on suicide finds that from 1999 to 2010, South Dakota's…
A South Dakota ex-pat friend cheers the Minnesota House's vote for marriage equality and says he's glad to call Minnesota home. I suggest that perhaps my ex-pat friend and Governor Dennis Daugaard's other targets should bring their respectful debate and…
New data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that South Dakota ranks 30th in the nation for the average prices charged by hospitals for the 100 most common diagnoses and treatments. Minnesota ranks 31st. Sifting through the…
The Buffalo Ridge Blog, coming to us from somewhere in western Minnesota, laughs at Governor Dennis Daugaard's impending Mall of America recruiting trip: Yup, the GOP governor of South Dakota... is coming to the Mall of America to persuade all…
Following up on Governor Dennis Daugaard's impending trip to the Twin Cities to steal away the best and brightest of their afternoon mall denizens, I find the South Dakota press is a few days behind the Minnesotans in discussing the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's South Dakota WINS plan was to spend $5 million on an out-of-state headhunter to bring a thousand new people to South Dakota. It may have worked: a glance at our Department of Labor data shows that from…