As he campaigns for U.S. House, Attorney General Marty Jackley can put an anti-Big-Tech feather in his cap. Meta/Facebook has settled the lawsuit that South…
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The League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union have been cranky about 2026 Senate Bill 175 since rookie wingnut Senator John Carley…
I’m in the middle of a six-week stay in our glorious National Parks. Seen so far: chipmunks, ground squirrels, ravens, one fox enjoying a successful…
Artificial intelligence—or at least corporate enthusiasm for it—is doing us some good. In Staff Report 686 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, four Federal…
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…
It’s bad enough that Trump is whacking South Dakota’s livestock producers with another anti-American, crony-coddling plan to dump foreign beef into the U.S. Democratic candidate…
Nobody but Trump’s foreign cronies thinks his vague plan to cancel tariffs on foreign hamburger and sell it at below-market prices in America is good…
Independent journalism and South Dakota’s collective intelligence are poorer this week, having lost smart writer Tom Lawrence: Tom passed on August 21, a few months…
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,…
Along with seeking $24.5 million to saddle faculty, staff, and students with artificial intelligence, the South Dakota Board of Regents has adopted a new policy…