Last week I published a post about a study claiming that rural communities were more “prosperous” than most people believe (click here to view a map detailing which counties the study considers prosperous). The study used a non-traditional means of measuring prosperity (it didn’t include income and [...]
Mat McGovern and Rick Hauffe's job with Repower South Dakota is to help implement Obamanomics:
"Obamanomics" is the title of two books on the economic platform of the Obama administration. Apparently the phrase has a nice catch to publishers. But in the hands of Timothy Carney, author of this [...]
Representative Herseth Sandlin was not among the 27 Democrats who voted against this:
While America was distracted by the arguments over health care, Copenhagen, terror trials in New York and a "jobs" summit, a new type of TARP proposal that would set up a tax-and-spend process involving hundreds of [...]
In the wrong place, of course;
A former employee of a Sioux Falls sandwich shop has been sentenced to jail time for using his cell phone to take a photo up the skirt of a female customer.
Obviously he is probably looking for a new job – I heard a particular [...]
Thomas Sowell explains:
President Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is "creating," but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office. How can there be more unemployment after so many jobs have been "created"?
Let's go back to square one. What does it take to [...]
From my comment section:
“What most call education is really free job training for special interests in the private sector…tech schools included.”
- Steve Sibson
[...]Today, I woke up after about 4 hours of sleep.
My back hurts from my bad mattress.
My day care provider canceled day care today, due to a funeral.
I’m going to miss a day’s work at my hourly job.
It’s freezing cold.
It’s going to blizzard.
I have to deliver 4 dozen cookies with 2 [...]
I wanted to go. In fact I was potentially scheduled to speak. But….. that darned day job caught up with me.
Jim Sheehan in Pierre is to be commended for by what all accounts call a resounding success in Pierre for a gathering of the conservative faithful:
Hofer was one of more [...]
High-school friend of Sarah Palin shows up for Sioux Falls book signing.
Taxpayer’s money for tribes to create jobs.
Biggest cost of hunting? Time.
Bike trails and travails.
Tea Party in the Capitol (of South Dakota).
[...] That’s a lot of money for very little stimulation.
After South Dakota was promised “10,000″ jobs for all the federal government’s expensive stimulus… it looks like we’re about 7800 jobs short. And that’s if we count the people who kept their current jobs. Kevin Woster at the Rapid City Journal has [...]
Thanks to a post on The Rural Blog, I stumbled across this old article from the Fortune Magazine blog touting an American Wind Energy study that claims more people are employed in wind energy than in coal mining. My first reaction was “can this be [...]
At the Nov. 2 Mitchell City Council meeting, Dakota Wesleyan University Athletic Director Curt Hart made an unscheduled presentation during the citizens' input portion of the meeting. He said he'd learned since starting his job in February that DWU had no role in the city's effort to build a [...]
This is the best damn description of a board member’s job I’ve ever read! If you want to know what a school board member does, check out Jim Woods’ blog.
A School Board positon will vary somewhat from district to district and from state to state – for example, [...]
Over the last few days, I’ve come across the following images (the first from the American Enterprise Institute and the second from Paul Kedrosky):
I know that there is much more to it [...]
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are [...]
Roger Hedgecock has the truth detailed in a WorldNetDaily column that Cory Heidelberger will refuse to accept:
While all eyes focus on the unfolding drama of the "health-care reform–health-insurance reform–jobs bill," another critical part of the "Change America" plan just took a torpedo midships.
Some 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents [...]
There’s bad news, and at least locally, some not so bad news.
The ‘Real’ Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.
According [...]
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 [...]
