The good news: the Department of Transportation counted over half a million vehicles entering Sturgis during the famed motorcycle Rally that ended last weekend. The…
Category: South Dakota
DOE Hunt for “Divisive Concepts” Doesn’t Find Much; SD to Ban “Equity” from Standards and Contracts?
Last April, Governor Kristi Noem ordered her Department of Education to identify and eradicate from its materials all “divisive concepts“—the new sloppy code for critical race…
Representative Greg Jamison (R-12/Sioux Falls) is rejecting Senator Lee Schonebeck’s (R-5/Lake Kampeska) political distractions on Amendment D and saying voters should expand Medicaid: The Legislature…
South Dakota’s Social Studies Content Standards Commission has posted its proposed revision of the state’s K-12 social studies standards. The 127-page document purports to be…
Joe Sneve and Jonathan Ellis are leaving the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and starting their own news outlet, the Dakota Scout: A new Twitter feed for Dakota…
If Calvin Hillesland wants to get back into teaching, the Bishop O’Gorman Catholic Schools appear to welcome his attitude toward transgender students. KELO-TV reports that…
The League of Women Voters is challenging South Dakota’s residency requirement for ballot question petition circulators in court. Their case just got some support from…
I heard another… misrepresentation of Medicaid expansion yesterday. While having a serious conversation about Amendment D, a voter said he’d heard that writing Medicaid expansion…