Bob Mercer said last week that Governor Larry Rhoden has been using the Future Fund the way George Mickelson intended: In the 18-plus months he’s…
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Stanford Mark Adelstein died Monday, nine days shy of his 95th birthday. Adelstein represented Rapid City’s District 32 in the South Dakota Legislature—two terms in…
Last December, the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District barely survived a dissolution vote. But residents have petitioned again to force the ORR school board to submit that…
Abram Naber, 42, of Rapid City, said in a primary day polling place interview with Searchlight that he didn’t cast a vote in the congressional,…
I always get a brief kick out of wienies who’ve done something wrong crying “Defamation!” when we point out the facts of their wrongdoing. Peyton…
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…
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…