SDGOP spin blogger Pat Powers reads the competing blog/newsletter, Dakota Conservative, that Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has started and rightfully notes the irony of…
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The first verified detection of the omicron variant of covid-19 in South Dakota, in a 20-something male, prompts straight talk from the state on how…
Contrary to nearly every headline on Kristi Noem’s latest culture-war sally, the Governor’s latest draft bill does not ban, block, prevent, or limit any discussion…
Just in time for Christmas, the Watertown Public Opinion last week published Codington County Treasurer Carol Maloney’s naughty list—the property owners who are delinquent on their…
A couple of SDGOP establishment poobahs tell Jonathan Ellis that, even with the tantalizing prospect of majority leadership, the man from Murdo may have had…
Remember Noem’s big summer purge of the Corrections Department and her big talk about reforms to support guards and other prison workers? Well, evidently, Noem’s…
Determined to distract us from her nepotism and socialist hypocrisy, Governor Noem issued her third culture-war draft legislation since last Monday. Following up on a…
Last week the Food and Drug Administration made permanent a pandemic-era change that allows women to receive abortion drug mifepristone by mail. This easing of…
Also on the Meade County Commission agenda Tuesday are personnel actions, including the hiring of nine new employees at $17.50 an hour: $17.50 an hour…
This summer, Governor Kristi Noem endorsed Game Fish & Parks’ proposed $9.9-million shooting range north of Rapid City as a great way to “provide opportunities so…