Dan Ahlers submitted his running-mate papers in time, and the man ready to debate Tony Venhuizen is former Democratic legislator Steven McCleerey. McCleerey, a Sisseton…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Marty Jackley, Jon Hansen, and the state of South Dakota lose again in their effort to stifle direct democracy. Yesterday on a 2–1 decision, a…
While Pat Powers swills beer, I spend my vacation reading Wendell Berry: A healthy farm will have trees on it—woodlands, where forest trees are native,…
Aberdeen mayor Travis Schaunaman is taking a stand against the surveillance state that his fellow Republicans are so eagerly expanding. Mayor Schaunaman has asked the…
KSFY’s Beth Warden reports that last week’s firing of State Penitentiary warden Justin Roemmich and two other Corrections officials coincides with “renewed concern over nepotism…
The fireworks South Dakota shot off at Mount Rushmore on July 3 to cap Donald Trump’s inappropriately divisive and gaslightfully projective semiquincentennial speech cost $700,000.…
Governor Larry Rhoden formalized Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen‘s unquestioned status as his running mate in the 2026 election last week by filing the certification of…
Failed Democratic Senate candidate Julian Beaudion, who withdrew from the U.S. Senate contest last week after months of embarrassingly bad fundraising, says he still has…
Trump’s demolition of the American job market continues. Last week’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a stunning loss of 23,000 jobs…
Also breaking initiative law: Marty Jackley! Attorney General Marty Jackley’s Draft Ballot Explanations webpage says that his office received Brenda Anderson’s final language for her…