Construction costs are up all over, but at least the Rochford Road rebuild drew some competition to temper inflation: It will cost about $6 million…
Month: April 2023
A week before leading a vote to expel three Democratic legislators for speaking out of order with props for 52 minutes from the Tennessee House…
South Dakota Searchlight‘s series on Governor Kristi Noem’s soft-on-crime commutations and paroles remind us that the Governor may not be following state law and constitution…
Transparency Schmansparency: Monae Johnson Slow to Provide Public Records, Won’t Take Email Requests
Monae Johnson promised “Greater Transparency in your Secretary of State Office!” Of course, we knew that promise was a sham back during the campaign when…
South Dakota State University is bucking famous alumna Governor Kristi Noem’s resistance to science and stimulus and taking a $1.29-million Conservation Innovation Grant from the USDA…
The South Dakota Supreme Court may be impervious to purchase, but what about the United States Supreme Court? ProPublica, which just won again against billionaire…
Billionaire usurer turned philanthropist self-memorializer T. Denny Sanford still hasn’t bought off South Dakota’s Judicial Branch. In 2021, the South Dakota Supreme Court upheld a…
Last week the Meade County Commission approved the Department of Game Fish and Parks’ plan to build a big shooting range northeast of Rapid City…
If you don’t conform to conservative Christian norms of gender and sexuality, the state of South Dakota is out to quash your liberty. But Equality…
Speaking of paragons of public piety getting in trouble for sex crimes, the Rapid City Diocese continues to suspend priest Michel Mulloy from public ministry…