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They just can’t keep their story straight

Seems like the Amendment E campaign has a problem figuring out which script they’re reading from — or maybe its just that the script varies from place to place.

On Sunday, KELO TV’s “Inside KELOLAND” took a look at Amendment C (the so-called “gay marriage” amendment) and Amendment E. Good ol’ Jake Hanes was the […]

How (not) to keep them in South Dakota

For the last number of years, we have heard how important it is to entice South Dakota’s top high school students to attend in-state colleges and universities to increase the chance our best and brightest will stay in the state. This week I got an up close view of just how poorly we may be […]

Weekend marginalia

What with the local daily’s changing its format to focus on pictures people take of their kids and pets, this is even more true for me these days. (Via Straight Talk.) As an aside, when I checked its web page Saturday morning, you would not know four Sioux Falls high school volleyball teams (3 of […]

Catching up on E as in editorial pages

It’s easy to summarize a couple items I posted to the No on E blog but didn’t get posted here. The editorial pages are fairly explicit in their condemnation of Amendment E. According to the Watertown Public Opinion and the Yankton Press & Dakotan, J.A.I.L. is “the worst of all the ballot issues” and voters […]

Book Review: The Road (2006)

In moving away from the recent concentration on politics, I have to start with an admission. Until this month, I’d never read anything by Cormac McCarthy. As a result, I can’t tell you how his latest novel, The Road, compares to what he’s written before, whether in style, mood or anything. I do, though, feel […]