I'm scratching my head over a comment reported by Ken Santema from Saturday's crackerbarrel in Aberdeen. Evidently a citizen asked the legislators about a proposal to increase funding for K-12 education through a 1% tourism tax. From Santema's phrasing, it…
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A couple thousand protesters kinked the hose of commerce Saturday by flashmobbing a "Black Lives Matter" protest in the Mall of America. During the protest, St. Paul writer Ira Booker Tweeted this photo: Because nothing says "We're not really an…
One of the biggest obstacles to business and housing development on the Pine Ridge reservation is fractionated land ownership. In 1887, Congress deeded tribal land to individual Indian owners. Those original 80- to 160-acre allotments have been sliced and diced…
Boyd County (Nebraska)'s resolution of opposition to the Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan and to government land ownership and conservation in general declares this public goal: ...to discourage land use development or use that will lower or impair the value of the…
One of the arguments people make against wind farms (yes, there are some avid opponents of South Dakota's greates and cleanest potential power source) is that they decrease property values. But that argument doesn't hold up to real data. Looking…
Poor Gordon Howie. No, really, I mean this: I sympathize with Gordon Howie, who is seeing property he co-owns torn up by thoughtless motorists: A few Rapid Valley residents are frustrated that freewheeling drivers turned the area near their neighborhood…
Representative Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) gets the highest score of any South Dakota legislator on the shadowy SDFC's Freedom Index. Voicing her support for Governor Dennis Daugaard's two-year moratorium on acquisitions of land by the state Game Fish and Parks…