Senator John Thune spent a long weekend traveling with nine other Senators to Saudi Arabia and Israel. Thune spoke briefly with the rest of the…
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South Dakota’s U.S. Senators seem to have backed the wrong horse in the Republican primary race. Mike Rounds and John Thune both endorsed South Carolina…
South Dakota’s elected leaders go ga-ga for every dollar they can get Uncle Sam to spend on Ellsworth Air Force Base as an economic lifeline…
Heck and darn—the National Bureau of Economic Research posts a working paper that says we nerds don’t get our revenge in the world of work; the…
South Dakota has a stealth voucher program that launders public tax dollars through tax rebates to insurers who give out scholarships to private schools. Like…
Emerson College Polling finds South Dakotans aren’t unique in their widespread election denial. The Boston-based college’s polls of 22 Midwest and Midwest-adjacent states over the…
Various Republicans are exploiting the fear raised by Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack on Israel to stoke their usual anti-immigration mania here in the U.S. Among…
When the Public Utilities Commission nuked their carbon-dioxide pipeline permit application last month, Nebraska-based Navigator CO2 Ventures rebutted rumors that it was giving up on…
We know that all the Republican warnings about voter fraud are false alarms used to make it harder for people to vote. Study after study…
The good news is that, over the past decade, non-fatal injuries among children have decreased by more than 50% over the past decade, largely because…