Mayor Sam Kooiker has taken some time to speak with the Dakota Free Press about why he wants a third term as Rapid City’s mayor. As with…
Month: April 2015
In South Dakota, when our political leaders talk about giving young workers an opportunity, they mean, “Cut their pay a dollar, and let them be…
Hey, I think Rick Knobe’s with us on referring both SB 177 (the youth minimum wage) and SB 69 (the mutated petition reform bill). Knobe recognizes that…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses… the wretched refuse… wait, did we say that? The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House opened at Indiana and…
The push to refer Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage, to a public vote just got a big shot in the arm from the…
Meanwhile, my volunteers and I are out circulating petitions to refer the youth minimum wage and the anti-democratic petition reform bill… and KSFY gives us…
Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) spent ten minutes reading a script to the Aberdeen City Council this evening about his youth minimum wage bill. When Novstrup finished, the council…
Among other items on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda last week was a report on teacher education. The Regents learned that… Out of…
Sticker fun in the Sunday paper! Former police chief Steve Allender made sure everyone in Rapid City got a sticker in yesterday’s Rapid City Journal reminding…
You have ten days left to file your federal taxes. Thanks to Republican budget cuts and propaganda, that’s probably how long you’ll spend on hold with…