In its detailed report on the switch in political focus from building a new prison to working on rehabilitation to reduce the number of South…
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The economy and demographics are killing another South Dakota nursing home, this time in Corsica: Corsica’s Good Samaritan Society nursing home will be closing. “In…
Several days ago, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley warned he might sue South Dakota for banning the use of eminent domain to build carbon…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the merits of the Medals of Honor issued to the Seventh Cavalry butchers at the Wounded Knee…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s creation of the Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force came quickly, but he hasn’t been historically quick on the draw with his executive pen.…
Governor Larry Rhoden quickly made good on his promise to create a criminal rehabilitation task force if the Legislature approved his $650-million prison plan. Right…
In good news, your chances of getting a speeding ticket out on the high lonesome plains are down 12%—that’s how short South Dakota is of…
The Department of Education is taking public comment on proposed revisions to the K-12 Mathematics and Health Education curriculum standards. The Board of Education Standards…
Representative Peri Pourier’s (R-27/Pine Ridge) announcement of her switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party was strangely unspecific to the state of politics…
Heather Cox Richardson: Hegseth Wounded Knee Order Perpetuates Sordid Politicking of Medals of Honor
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a profound history of the partisan politics that led to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. The esteemed historian and political commentator…