My blog neighbors Jennifer Holsen and Scott Ehrisman have been waging war against the big event center that goes before Sioux Falls voters on November 8. I naturally sympathize with Holsen and Ehrisman and other event center opponents, if for…
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There goes big government again, forcing us consumers to pay more for our hot dogs. South Dakota's Department of Environment and Natural Resources has fined John Morrell & Company $44,079 for violating its surface water discharge permit. The Sioux Falls…
My Madison neighbor Jerry Heckenliable will love this one. You know all those high electric rates the City of Madison charges? Some of that money is going to promote the proposed Sioux Falls events center. Yes, Sioux Falls. The finance…
Call Governor Dennis Daugaard's budget "half-assed," and he appears unlikely to forget. Following the Sioux Falls School District's law-stretching decision to hide superintendent Pam Homan's five-year, gold-plated contract from the teaxpayers, Governor Daugaard's office is making pretty clear that Homan's…
Hey, don't take my word for it that Keystone XL is bad for South Dakota. Come this Thursday, September 22, 7 p.m. CDT, to the downtown public library in Sioux Falls to hear Cobenais explain why we should surrender our…
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…
Hey, Sioux Falls! Get your personal income growth back in gear! According to the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, personal income in the Sioux Falls metro area (Minnehaha, McCook, Turner, and Lincoln counties) grew 1.6% in 2010,…
Hey, South Dakota conservatives! Unhappy with Congresswoman Kristi Noem and her boss, Speaker John Boehner, over the really rotten and arguably unconstitutional debt deal they rushed through Congress this week? Here's your chance to give both Noem and Boehner a…