The Meade County school board still can’t pull the trigger on a mask mandate for its teachers and students. With board member Tracy Konst complaining…
Category: South Dakota
The Aberdeen school district opens today, gathering kids for orientation and a quick tour of classes before starting real teaching on Wednesday. But the families…
Speaking of right-wingers adopting exactly the positions they’ve previously lambasted, Governor Kristi Noem took her daughter to college yesterday. Kennedy Noem is graduating from nepotism…
I wholeheartedly support Speaker Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) in his bid to reassert the Legislature’s coequal status in South Dakota government by calling for a…
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…
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…