Mahendra Trivedi makes the outlandish claim that he can cure cancer and make cattle and crops grow better with energy from his body. If your…
Category: national
I noted Wednesday that South Dakota’s minimum-wage increase appears not to be hurting job creation. Swedish furniture and meatball retailer Ikea is having the same experience. Last…
I love Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. Right there, just a few blocks west of Hennepin Avenue, right south of one of the Twin Cities’ great…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. that license plates are government speech, not open public forums. The…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has said there’s no way South Dakota could set up a state-run health insurance exchange in time to save the premium tax subsidies that the…
Gordon Howie knows how to get attention. Shout “Too Many Mexicans” in a blog headline (without even the blog-dodge question mark), and folks will click to watch…
The Washington Post features research that indicates Sesame Street may have done more to improve education than any elected official in South Dakota in the last five…
A roving Dakota Free Press correspondent caught the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Minneapolis yesterday. The Sanders campaign advertised coffee and bagels at 9:30 a.m. with a…
An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…