Bart Pfankuch’s lengthy multi-part exposé of child abuse at the Aurora Plains Academy in Plankinton is making serious waves, drawing from Governor Noem promises to…
Month: June 2019
Dennis Daugaard and Russ Olson were all smiles and giggles in January when Tru Shrimp finagled South Dakota into offering them a bigger corporate welfare package…
Speaking of toxic waste, Prairie Village suffered a newsworthy noxious spill weekend before last as ne’er-do-wells knocked over seven porta-potties: On Sunday morning, Prairie Village…
Is Governor Kristi Noem’s abandonment of the traditional Governor’s Hunt in the greater Pierre area in favor of another big expo and concert in Sioux Falls…
The latest USDA crop progress report confirms what a drive past a lot of brown fields along I-29 will tell you: a lot of farmers are…
SDGOP Chairman Dan Lederman, District 25 Representative Jon Hansen, and Governor Kristi Noem are keen on demonizing out-of-staters who, in their view, disrupt South Dakota’s…
The World Trade Organization says Trump’s new sixteen-billion-dollar round of farm bailout checks “could exceed America’s WTO subsidy commitments and unduly influence U.S. planting decisions.”…
The Board of Regents is moving the School for the Deaf six miles across Sioux Falls, from its current green, leafy location in a residential…
Donald Trump broke his promise to reduce the deficit in favor of giving tax breaks mostly to the rich. Now he’s clawing back most of…
That Sioux Falls paper does some work to fulfill the media’s civic duty to inform voters about ballot measures by running a front-page story (plus two…