In what should not be news, the Brown County Commission decided yesterday to charge Otter Tail Power Company and Montana-Dakota Utilities $3 per $1,000 of…
Category: South Dakota
Want a double dose of democracy? Aberdeen’s League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce are hosting a candidate forum this Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m. at…
Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) is the first Democrat to say she’s considering challenging Congresswoman Kristi Noem in the 2016 election. The intelligent and articulate Rep. Hawks could mount…
President Obama and the Democratic Congress included the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act to save lives. But the Medicaid expansion also provides economic…
Frequent reader Nick Nemec looked at my review of 2014 vehicular crash data in South Dakota and asked if I could rank the counties based on the…
Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) spent ten minutes reading a script to the Aberdeen City Council this evening about his youth minimum wage bill. When Novstrup finished, the council…
Welcome to Dakota Free Press, my new South Dakota blog. I have blogged under the Madville Times masthead since August 2005. I started with a…
I’d love to see the state and the education establishment abandon Common Core and similar exercises in faux-accountability and paperwork. But that won’t happen with opponents claiming that…