The Rapid City Journal notices the National Park Service's survey of visitors to Mount Rushmore and finds confirmation of what we South Dakotans know quite well: while we have minor complaints about parking fees and "Made in China" trinkets, Mount…
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As our federal government reopens (no thanks to Kristi Noem, who voted for continued fiscal flagellation and chaos), we learn South Dakota's Mount Rushmore donors get no cash back: According to the deals between the Interior Department and the states,…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has accepted the Interior Department's offer to let states pay for reopening certain national parks and monuments. However, as I suspected, Governor Daugaard doesn't think Mount Rushmore is important enough to spend South Dakota tax dollars on.…
I feel a bluff getting called. Governor Dennis Daugaard has offered to use "state personnel and resources" to keep Mount Rushmore open during the partial federal government shutdown. The National Park Service has said no, thank you, saying that the…
It seems as though someone plotting Republican strategy in Washington, D.C., is sketching out the same strategies on responding to the federal government shutdown as Gov. Dennis Daugaard this week. Monday, for the third time in the last three years,…
The Heidelbergers drove down the road and visited Mount Rushmore this fine sunny Sunday in the Black Hills: I'm up to a dozen Rushmore visits now. I have yet to tire of those great faces—the four in granite, and the…