We've discussed how the inability of Congress and the President to agree on a sensible budget, along with South Dakota's own pigheaded business-über-alles priorities, is leaving South Dakota kids with less access to quality pre-school education. Those budget cuts are…
Posts tagged as “Yankton”
A certain frequent flyer in the comment section likes to flog the meme of "fat-cat administrators" and "whining educrats" hogging our education budgets and keeping money from teachers. With some trepidation, I hand him another whip. Dr. Rick Melmer left…
State Oral Interp is done for another year. I some of South Dakota's smartest, gutsiest high school students perform William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" (Bryan knew trickle-down economics was bunk in 1896), Karel Čapek's R.U.R., and Jake Barton's "I…
Excellent! The 2012 Legislative campaign is going exactly as I planned. By placing three significant policy issues on the ballot, we voters have forced legislative candidates to talk about real substantial questions about our priorities in Pierre. Nathan Johnson reports…
In light of the Madison City Commission and LAIC's action Monday night, I'm working on a post about downtown and retail development. But in my reading, I find this gem of a quote in Nathan Johnson's extended article from Yankton…
Nathan Johnson posts brilliantly on the importance of preserving a community's history and its landmarks. He celebrates the conversion of Yankton's Meridian Bridge into a unique pedestrian trail: ...while there are a few people who still complain it is a…
Need work? Got skills? Then head for the James River Valley. A "Workforce Summit" at Mitchell Technical Institute today will address, among other issues, a shortage of more than 500 mostly manufacturing workers. The James River runs (slowly) from Brown…
All opponents anti-American lying infidels! After defeating the Yankton School District's proposed property tax opt-out in May, opponents appear to be forming an organization to promoet further regressive ideals in the community. A June 30 letter from organizers Mike Lemon,…