4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (365+ words) Smokey Bear says Drown, Stir, Drown, and Feel your campfire before you hike out. You should do the same thing putting out your hay-truck fire; otherwise you’ll end up setting Lookout Mountain on fire: The westbound driving lanes were closed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (415+ words) South Dakota Searchlight prints Nina Luz’s write-up of Dakota Institute fellow and Northern State University economist Dr. Aaron Scholl’s June analysis of housing affordability in South Dakota. The unpleasant conclusion: South Dakota can no longer claim much of an advantage…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (113+ words) Poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92. With his death, America loses one of its deepest, most deliberate thinkers, a rural American who spoke for rural America more clearly, honestly, thoughtfully, devotedly, Christianly, and consistently than…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (344+ words) People who get their health insurance through their employers will see higher premiums next year: Employer-sponsored health insurance plans are poised to get more expensive next year. Insurance broker Aon projected they’ll rise 9.5% to average more than $19,000 per employee. Companies…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (703+ words) To define “hyperscale”, LRC turns to the International Energy Agency and the Congressional Research Service to put together these criteria: LRC says no data centers in South Dakota have reached those criteria, although the current biggest data center, Big Watt…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (170+ words) Dakota Free Press SDIC Keeps Management Fees at Measly 0.10% One area in which the South Dakota Investment Council continues to excel lies in keeping overhead low. According to the SDIC’s report to the Legislative Executive Board Wednesday, the fees its…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (193+ words) Dakota Free Press Manufacturing Surged After Tariffs Fell; Tariffs Didn’t Reverse Decline in Factory Production Cato Institute economist Scott Lincicome posts some charts busting White House propaganda about tariffs and manufacturing. Of particular interest is Lincicome’s finding that since November…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (114+ words) When he worked for Governor Kristi Noem, attack dog Ian Fury defended his boss’s rejection of millions of dollars in federal aid for energy-efficiency grants, cybersecurity improvements, and food assistance by saying, “Federal money often comes with strings attached, and…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (272+ words) Last year Donald Trump sent Dutch immigrant and longtime Michigan politician Pete Hoekstra to Canada as our ambassador. A lot of Canadians want to send him back: An official petition before Canada’s House of Commons has gained thousands of signatures…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago   (316+ words) Donald Trump’s policy of pissing off Canada is killing income and jobs in our small northern border towns: Deb Weigel…[is] the manager of Corner Parcel in Pembina, a town of 500 in the northeast corner of North Dakota, right on…...