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From today’s argus leader, comes a tale of Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin besieged by her critics in the Republican party, and those in her own party:
The political world for South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin might be a lonely place these days.
For years, liberals have guarded her left flank while she [...]
Is South Dakota Racing to the Top? Seems nobody knows. The education news is full of stories about states competing for the single largest amount of discretionary money ever directed toward education – 4.3 Billion dollars — but things are uncomfortably quiet here.
The Race to the Top [...] Todd Epp over at Middle Border Sun (AKA SD Watch) suggests that his party takes it’s bad, bad blue dog out and give it a swat on the nose with a newspaper:
My former colleagues at South Dakota Public Radio give our poor, maligned sole United States Representative a bully pulpit [...]
My former colleagues at South Dakota Public Radio give our poor, maligned sole United States Representative a bully pulpit at our expense, where Princess Stephanie Herseth Sandlin calls those of us Democrats who actually believe and act like Democrats and think Americans deserve health care “extremists.”
Owner of juice bar squeezed by state law.
Habitual DUI gets 5 years in the can.
Everyone running for governor in South Dakota from the two major parties is (or was) a Republican.
Love coffee? Slurp it.
Because of hard economic times, the state government can no longer afford to increase economic activity by selling products made in South Dakota:
The Made In South Dakota Internet site is about to become window shopping only.
The Rounds administration is removing the shopping cart function.
When the [...]
Main Justice reports that U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota Brendan Johnson will be advising U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Native American issues:Internationally recognized stem cell expert Dr. David Prentice is in South Dakota for a few days to smack down (with hard science) the bait and switch false claims of Dave Volk, Nathan Peterson and Mitch Richter of the so-called South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures. That these are the same Daschle/Planned Parenthood people who gave [...]
Watch out for Medicare scams. (Seems like I should be saying this to Congress.)
OSHA to see if anyone needs to pay penalties to government for worker’s death in wall collapse.
South Dakota unemployment now at 5 percent.
Everything old is new again: school to use wood-fueled boiler for [...]
One of my pet peeves I have with Democrats is that they never go for the jugular. Why go half-way?
Sen. Scott Heidepriem blamed years of irresponsible spending for the current hole in the state budget, saying South Dakota has not been governed by fiscal conservatives in the last seven [...]
The Pew Center has this interesting study:
South Dakota's state government might be in relatively better shape financially than most states throughout the nation, but a new national report indicates South Dakota is in worse shape than all but one of its neighbors.
The financial-health report distributed earlier this [...]
Don’t you hate those politicians who say one thing in Washington Pierre and another back home?
The leading Democrat in the state Senate said Wednesday that South Dakota’s budget shortfall is so extreme that across-the-board cuts in services could be the only way to balance the budget.
Sen. Scott Heidepriem blamed years [...]
From the Mitchell Daily Republic, via the Rapid City Journal, it sounds like I’m not the only one waving the “shame on you” sign at the environmental nuts:
South Dakota’s wind industry may be “sidetracked” by the recent termination of plans to build a coal-fired power plant in the northeastern part [...]
$14 million gets a new school.
South Dakota gets kudos for managing to almost balance the budget (but not doing so well as most of the neighbors).
Wrapping up the TARP with an assist from John Thune.
The po0litical game of bragging about job creation seldom talks about teh jobs lost. Example...Big Stone 2. Cory Heidelberger and his big-government control freaks celebrate this:
Developers have announced that Big Stone II, a 1.6 billion dollar coal plant scheduled to go up near Milbank, South Dakota will not be [...]
When the weak say that we get more from the federal governemtn than what we pay in, we should subtract our cost of implementing the federal programs, such as the state Department of Education. That issue is brewing in regard to Porkulus:
South Dakota Auditor General Marty Guindon wants to [...]
