South Dakota’s state revenues are looking better than you’d expect during a puzzling pandemic recession managed by incompetent fascists. Brown County is also managing to…
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South Dakota really did flatten its coroanvirus curve after the big meatpacking-related spikes in April and May. But as the flow of Trumpist hogwash and…
Equality South Dakota has issued its endorsements for the 2020 general election. Dan Ahlers gets the nod over junior Senator Marion Michael Rounds, who didn’t…
Unemployment claims rose week before last, from 775 to 911. That’s a ninth of the number of claims received in the worst early week of…
Governor Kristi Noem has damaged state-tribal relations with her vigorous attacks on tribal efforts to protect their communities from coronavirus with highway checkpoints. The Legislature’s…
Governor Kristi Noem justifies her reckless push to return our kids (not hers, since they’re all done with our public K-12 schools) to normal face-to-face…
Dennis Daugaard is a tight-fisted conservative, but he’s also reasonable about public health. In a pleasantly rambling interview about his pleasantly rambling retirement, South Dakota’s…
Some drive-by tweeter pops in to my retweet on North Dakota drilling permits on how we don’t need Bakken oil (or, by 2035, any oil)…
I try to find positive news about coronavirus, like the data I reported on July 26 showing that South Dakotans were spreading coronavirus at the…
So that’s what she’s saving those coronavirus dollars for…. Governor Kristi Noem won’t wear a mask, but she will spend our tax dollars and donations…