Some Aberdeen landlord is getting a pretty good deal. We taxpayers are paying rent on office space for Congresswoman Kristi Noem on Main Street (just a couple blocks from the Red Rooster! talk about location!). Yet the poor sap who…
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Sioux Falls isn't looking so shiny lately. Mayor Huether is making City Hall look more like the Führerhauptquartiere. And the Sioux Falls School District is making a joke of open records laws. Josh Verges reports that the Sioux Falls School…
Why not: let's give Ashley Allen a triple shot for the day! Here's an open letter Mr. Allen has posted on his community development Facebook page: Ask yourself these questions: How do you define economic development? Would you say that…
Madison resident and telecommuter extraordinaire Ashley Allen attended last night's Madison City Commission meeting to ask for some accountability in the public dollars handed out to the Lake Area Improvement Corporation. Allen raised a number of issues that call into…
There's more evidence that Rep. Kristi No-meeting's avoidance of the public this long August recess is part of a larger pattern of Republican behavior. House Republicans desperately want to avoid the negative media imagery of angry town hall crowds, whether…
Senator Tim Johnson takes a little heat from the Aberdeen American News for telling the press not to publicize his visit to Aberdeen yesterday. I agree: Tim, you don't make my job easy when you create any appearance of keeping…
Congresswoman Kristi Noemeetings is evidently taking her cues from Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. The man who proposed the Medicare-destroying budget Kristi loves is holding no public town hall meetings during the August recess. Worse, according to Politico, Ryan and…
Go ahead, Tim Rave. Just try shouting "Food for Votes." I knew Kristi Noem would be good for blogging. She's also handing Democrats easy campaign fodder. In response to the Congresswoman's $500-pic-and-pancake Minnehaha Country Club fundraiser with Speaker John Boehner,…