In football, coaches talk about starting off new quarterbacks with an easy pass. The first play call when a new quarterback enters the game usually is a short pass unlikely to lead to a touchdown but also unlikely to lead…
Perhaps the Right was a little hasty with its condemnations of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Early in 2021, Noem proposed legislation that would require all athletic contests in the state to be designated as male, female, and both, and…
With two huge spending bills clearing the House of Representatives in the last two weeks and one of them being signed into law, one might think Congress would be out of new spending ideas or close to it. But even…
Ignore the red ink that continues to flow from the Postal Service’s balance sheet like water in the Mighty Mississippi. The Postal Service has a plan. After a decade of not putting forth a plan — a key factor in…
The USPS is a business in trouble. Imagine you are running a business and that business has had some setbacks. You can slow down some payments to some of your vendors, maybe even skip a few, to try to allow…
What do academics do when the data overwhelms their policy prejudices? Dan Talley, professor of economics and statistics at Dakota State University, recently put on a master class. The subject was South Dakota’s state budget. It is hard to imagine…
President Joe Biden’s efforts to turn “America First” into “Blame America First” in less than 100 days took a dangerous turn into the energy realm over the past several weeks with his remarks at a hastily assembled climate summit on…
Normally, union-management disputes are like unhappy marriages — no one not directly involved truly knows where the blame lies and why. But the United Food and Commercial Workers’ bizarre series of moves on the West Coast — and to some…
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has gotten tough when it comes to dealing with what has become a semi-permanent class of protesters in his city. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is getting out; she recently announced that she won’t run for reelection….