The Legislature’s State-Tribal Relations Committee was going to meet today at Sinte Gleska University in Mission to tour the Todd County Middle School, take public testimony,…
Month: January 2018
The 2017 Legislature held a whole special session to deal with nonmeandered waters (Rep. Kevin Jensen appears to call them “rogue lakes“—sounds like a job…
In a mostly fluffy WNAX interview, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) suggests the only problem children in his caucus are legislators who don’t do…
I’ve been e-mail back-and-forthing with a Libertarian who contends taxation is immoral coercion and that we can secure all the liberty we need through free-market…
South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs had her Kansas counterpart Kris Kobach come endorse and raise money for her in December in an attempt…
Two statewide candidates are visiting Aberdeen in the next few days. The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce is hosting gubernatorial candidate Marty Jackley this morning at…
Readers talk a lot on Dakota Free Press. Who talks the most? Here are the 50 commenters who clicked “Post Comment” most frequently in 2017: Thirteen of…
While I wait for the LRC to post the text of the truckload of new bills whose titles they published yesterday, I’m musing over Legislative…
Yesterday, Donald Trump felt the need to shout on Twitter that his nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong-un’s. People of Earth, on behalf of…
TransCanada’s cleanup of its oil spill on the Keystone pipeline in Marshall County resumes in earnest today. After a nice ten-day break during the bitter…