Hey, you know that big dairy operation up by Ramona whose management has a history of breaking environmental rules and dodging taxes? Lake County Dairy LLC, managed by Rick Millner? Guess who's delinquent on Lake County property taxes: The Lake…
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Last year associates of dairy-disaster-maker Rick Millner purchased the old Swier Dairy near Ramona and renamed it the Lake County Dairy. I warned that if Millner was coming to the county, there was a fair chance that he'd bring his…
I won't spend a lot of time blogging about a reporter reporting on my blogging. But my blogging about the Veblen dairies has become part of the story, as Mikkel Pates includes me in his in-depth coverage of the ongoing…
The latest Dakota Poll finds moderate concern among South Dakotans that our K-12 public school system is not giving sufficient emphasis to foreign language, music, and art. The Oldham-Ramona school district plans to give the arts even less emphasis. Oldham-Ramona…
Funny how things come together. Floyd Swier's dairy up by Ramona went out of business recently. It was purchased at the beginning of May for $1,505,000 by Lake County Dairy LLC. Don't be fooled by the name: It's not a…
The Madison Daily Leader gets three of our local superintendents on the record about Governor Rounds's proposed 5% cut to state aid for K-12 education. They don't sound happy, but they aren't jumping off any grain elevators yet. They list…