Health care dominated the conversation at Representative Kristi Noem’s town hall in Rapid City yesterday, where South Dakotans—well, maybe not the Boy Scouts and 4-Hers…
Month: July 2017
Dakota Free Press hits the road tomorrow! The District 22 Democratic Forum has invited me to speak at their noon lunch at the Huron Event…
The Trump budget banks on 3% economic growth for several years in a row. 3% is a step down from the 6, 5, and 4…
Rapid City blogger and columnist John Tsitrian gets his blog post from last Thursday praising Senator Mike Rounds for a brief flash of independent thinking…
The National Safety Council gives South Dakota and ten other states an F for its efforts to reduce preventable deaths from accidents. We rank #46…
Mary McCorkle, president of the South Dakota Education Association, tells WNAX that our extra half-penny sales tax for teacher pay is lowering job openings by…
The SDGOP spin blog really overworked itself trying to portray local reporting on the advantage Republicans derive from gerrymandering as “fake news.” Three consecutive posts…
Most Americans get this day off, and rightly so, for there is no greater holiday than the celebration of our Independence. The time off gives…
South Dakota may see more ballot measures in 2018 than in 2016, thanks in part to Republican Speaker G. Mark Mickelson. Ten measures made the…
The mortally corrupt Mid-Central Educational Cooperative was supposed to dissolve last week. But at its supposedly penultimate board meeting on June 15, Mid-Central voted to…