Why are traffic circles so great? Flowers! On Monday morning, a city traffic crew installed a temporary traffic circle — which, unlike roundabouts, can fit…
Month: April 2023
The South Dakota High School Activities Association has decided not to hold off on opening the door for high school athletes to follow their college…
The South Dakota School Superintendents Association has formally called for the rejection of the Hillsdale College social studies standards: Both current and former teachers have…
Folks moving to South Dakota do appear to be affecting the housing market—to the good for sellers, to the bad for buyers. According to the…
I’m puzzling over the seeming disconnect between South Dakota’s alleged population growth and its stagnant economy. Governor Kristi Noem has claimed that lots of (good…
Former Republican Senate candidate and family-values espouser Joel Koskan pled guilty today to two counts of felony incest and was immediately sentenced to ten years…
This morning’s reminder that there is hope for democracy comes from two charts in Governing‘s article on the prospect of younger voters affecting election outcomes. Millennials…
Last month, Pope Francis renounced the Doctrine of Discovery, so our Lakota neighbors can now kick us all off the prairie, right? Popes in the…
Radical right-wingnut group Patriot Ripple Effect is hosting an adults-only meeting Thursday to alert citizens to “What Is in Your Child’s Library?” Of course, like…
South Dakota has banned ballot dropboxes, much to the anti-democratic glee of Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her office wingnuts, but Pennington County says…