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Sioux Falls Spends $150K from Uncle Sam on Elementary iPads

The Sioux Falls School District is spending $150,000 from Uncle Sam on 120 iPads for elementary school kids. Superintendent Pam Homan says there's "no finer alignment" of educational goals and federal funds designated for after-school services than this iPad investment.…

49% of Sioux Falls Voters Say Teachers Deserve More Pay

I definitely need a job interview with this 49% of Sioux Falls voters! New font of public opinion data Nielson Brothers Polling releases the results of a survey on public teacher pay. The results: 49% of Sioux Falls registered voters…

Downtown Notes: Events Center, Mini-Wal-Marts, Dell Rapids Bakery

As I consider various plans to rejuvenate Madison's downtown, various bits of downtown news roll across my desk: Sioux Falls Event Center: On a 5&ndash4 vote, the Sioux Falls City Council voted last night to build the fabled Events Center…

Corporate Radio Uses Big Government to Block Local Competition

"Why 80s music?" Why not?! The Post SD features John and Heidi Small, owners and operators of Sunny Radio FM 92.1, the only locally owned radio station in the Sioux Falls metro area. Sunny Radio's brave broadcasters note that their…

Zachary Miller: Oral Interper, Gay Man, Righteous Dude

Zachary Miller is an 18-year-old graduate of Sioux Falls Lincoln High School. He's representing South Dakota in dramatic oral interpretation at the National Forensic League tournament in Dallas next week. He's gay. His radical homosexual agenda (you know, the one…

Education Potpourri: Jobs, Yankton Opt-Out, Rural College Culture

Education notes from around South Dakota: The kids at Sioux Falls Roosevelt obviously read the newspaper: the last three members of Roosevelt's Future Teachers Club are graduating, and no underclassmen are stepping up to join. Maybe we can all just…

Sioux Falls Proposes Searching Teachers’ Personal Property

Good grief: can we work anywhere anymore without giving up our basic Constitutional rights? Mr. Ehrisman alerts me to the Sioux Falls School District's effort to nullify the Fourth Amendment for its teachers: The local teachers union opposes a proposed…