The Public Utilities Commission spent last week listening to TransCanada tell them again why South Dakota should bear all of the externalities of its tar sands…
Month: August 2015
Minnesota fur farmer Terri Petter blames Deadwood and South Dakota’s overregulation and hypocrisy for the closure of her Fur-Ever “Wild” exhibit of wolf pups and other pelting-stock in…
Enough toe-dipping—Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) officially, truly, for reals, wants to be your next Congresswoman. Here’s the press release, straight from her official, true, for…
Mike Rounds doesn’t listen to me, but maybe Kristi Noem does. South Dakota’s lone Representative backs the provision in the pending revision of the Elementary…
I like my local paper. The Aberdeen American News publishes a fair array of informative local and state news articles, plus just enough really stupid articles to make…
Governor Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel holds its second meeting on Wednesday, August 19, in Pierre. I’m not sure what they have left to talk about, since it…
Someone is committing petition fraud at the Sioux Empire Fair. A Dakota Free Press correspondent sends this video of two men trying to trick fairgoers into…
Bob Mercer reports that the $950,000/year contract with SDGOP crony firm Lawrence & Schiller that the South Dakota Lottery Commission approved without reading will get the lottery…
Jonathan Ellis questions whether South Dakotans for Responsible Lending will be able to build an effective coalition to support its petition to cap interest rates…
In other news of improperly restrained animals, two Tibetan mastiffs on the loose in Sioux Falls yesterday morning bit a cop and almost killed one lady: One…