As Mr. Kurtz noted last week, the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names has voted unanimously to recommend changing the name of Harney Peak to Hinhan Kaga. Actually,…
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Holy cow: GOED does something right! The Governor’s Office of Economic Development proudly announces financial assistance for an honest-to-goodness, locally owned downtown retail business: Prairie…
Finally, the Republican spin machine finds a hook it thinks it can use against the referral of Senate Bill 69. Naturally, the South Dakota Republican Party can’t…
Hey, Charlie Johnson? Has Energy Transfer Partners offered you a deal like this to build the Dakota Access pipeline across your farm? A landowner from southeast…
I get the impression that comparing racist former nurse Ryane Godkin Oliva and former police chief and Rapid City mayoral candidate Steve Allender is grossly unfair. Oliva exhibits…
The populist Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party beat the pro-capitalist Obama-Clinton wing yesterday, uniting 44 out of 45 Senate Democrats to shut down the President’s request to fast-track the…
Attorney General Marty Jackley sends this blog the titles of the five proposed ballot initiatives currently on his desk for review: An Act to provide for a limit…
Tom Black occasionally hosts what he calls the Aberdeen City Council Observer on Facebook. He’s working through a series of questions with incumbent SE district candidate Laure…
Dean Kurtz of Custer sends a fine letter to the editor of the Hot Springs Star criticizing Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage. He tells his neighbors that signing…
Another major South Dakota industry is calling for looser immigration rules to boost its workforce recruiting. At a public forum with Attorney General Marty Jackley in Deadwood…