In 2015 Mitchell's resident prisoner, Steve Sibson chided Cabela's for exploiting a tax increment financing district. Now, he's doing it again.
Few people are fatter than Pat Powers but North Dakotan, Rob Port sure looks like he is.
At 47th in state economies and 49th in economic activity rank South Dakota's economy is circling the drain with little hope for the future according to WalletHub.
Creighton University's Ernie Goss follows the economies of nine midwestern states including South Dakota's and May found the regional manufacturing economy is slowing down even more due to the Trump tariffs and volatility in the markets.
The May Business Conditions Index for South Dakota slumped to 48.7 from April’s 55.8. Components of the overall May index were: new orders at 50.0; production or sales at 47.1; delivery lead time at 52.4; inventories at 48.3; and employment at 45.6. According to ITA data, the South Dakota manufacturing sector exported $411.0 million in goods for the first quarter of 2025 compared to $499.1 million for the same period in 2024, for a 17.7% decline. [Mid-American Economy]Learn more at The South Dakota Standard.
If federal funding programs aren’t restored and if Congress approves SNAP cuts included in the reconciliation bill, officials with Feeding South Dakota say the effects will be felt in South Dakota.https://t.co/8OqxZKsRdP
— SDPB News (@SDPBNews) May 27, 2025
Editor's note: what follows is another blistering takedown of rotund Brookings blogger, Pat Powers at the fingers of Shad Olson. On Thursday jurors will decide Olson's future after he allegedly assaulted a domestic partner.
Discarded former SDGOP in-house blogger, Pat Powers, whose Lilliputian writing skills are gigantic in comparison to his tiny following is now undertaking outright doxing and publication of home addresses of conservative lawmakers who won't date him.On his abandoned wasteland of a RINO political blog, South Dakota War College, Monday, Powers delved into a listing of state legislators who've been identified as outright or potential backers of candidate for Governor, Toby Doeden. In an article slamming Doeden's campaign and ancillary lawmaker supporters, Pat Powers published the home address of Aberdeen Representative Brandei Schaefbauer, a particularly bright example of legislative courage in the 2025 session, carrying legislative bills to ban males from female public bathrooms and lockerrooms and to sue the nation of China and the creators of the COVID-19 bioweapon for financial damages, among others.In his trademark incoherent syntax, Powers attributes Schaefbauer's apparent loyalty to Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden to a history of mutual political financial support and additionally, to an unconfirmed assertion that Doeden owns a rental unit Representative Schaefbauer lists as her home address.Given Rep. Schaefbauer's fearless championing of even the most sensitive and incendiary political topics, it should be no surprise that she has reportedly already been the target of hateful and threatening communication via both electronic and physical mail to her official campaign address.Via his typically malicious style, Powers' publication of Rep. Schaefbauer's unpublished private address could potentially run afoul of both state and federal laws regarding doxing, stalking and harassment.South Dakota Codified Law 22-19A-1 defines stalking to include willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly harassing another person through electronic, verbal, or written communication. This could potentially apply to doxing activities if the doxing constitutes harassment.Federal law is even clearer, making the intentional dissemination of physical location a federal felony if it can be proven as an intentional attempt to expose the victim to harassment, intimidation or violent threat.Doxing has become weapon of choice on the part of leftists and establishment political ideologues who use community gangstalking and intimidation as a means to disrupt quality of life and subject opponents to the whims of the unhinged social media flashmob.South Dakota War College has previously listed an official Reddit channel for the republishing of website content on a social media echo chamber inhabited and enforced as a hivemind of far leftist derangement. Reddit has been previously traced as a radical leftist proving ground and recruiting tool for domestic terrorists implicated in the burning of Tesla vehicles and dealerships, home vandalism of conservative targets and even assassination attempts on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump.During the afforementioned 2025 Pierre contentiousness over the transgender bathroom issue, South Dakota School Administrators Director, Rob Monson, published the home address of Rapid City Representative Phil Jensen. Jensen was stripped of his House Education Committee co-chair and threatened with censure after floating a bill to defund the Huron School District following the Huron district's unresponsiveness to parental complaints over allowing a male student to use female restroom facilities.