In 2016, North Dakota cops got unusually rough with American Indians protesting construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline across the Missouri River, putting lives…
Month: January 2022
Fresh off his chamber’s capitulation to the Will of Schoenbeck in the 2021 redistricting process, Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) wants to drag the Legislature into…
Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House January 6 Committee, said on ABC News yesterday that last January’s insurrection at the Capitol wasn’t just…
It’s hard to get reporters to cover the South Dakota Legislature and state government in general. The geographic isolation of Pierre, where the Legislature meets…
My 2021 Blog Wish List didn’t come true. Killer Jason Ravnsborg still hasn’t spent a day in jail, one in three vaccine-eligible South Dakotans still…
That’s funny: I had the impression that I was writing less this year. My stats confirm that in 2021, I published only 1,202 posts on…
If “top stories” are defined by the amount of conversation they generate, then the following table shows the top stories of 2021. Here are the…
The Dakota Free Press comment section saw a decline in activity this year. This blog fielded 18,336 approved comments consisting of approximately 1.495 million words…
Happy New Year! It’s 2022, so pass me some of that tasty Soylent Green, and let’s see what you ingredients were reading while the world came…