I like my neighbor Jon Schaff a lot. He’s a Republican, but he’s a smart professor worth listening to. He also writes books, which is…
Category: South Dakota
The Department of Tourism says 25,179 people applied for 125,787 seats to watch Kristi Noem and Donald Trump scorch Mount Rushmore July 3 with their…
The Sturgis City Council voted 8–1 last night to proceed with the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as scheduled, but with a little less hoopla: The…
Speaking of Republicans talking sense, a little bit of non-Trumpist decency is leaking out of Senator M. Michael Rounds, who says maybe we shouldn’t have…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) sweetens my faint pleasure at seeing Republicans police themselves and primary some of their own wingnuts out of office with his…
Now that South Dakota’s trial of Trump wonder pills has become an embarrassing failure, Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon is trying to make it sound like…
State economist Mark Quasney says Governor Kristi Noem’s willingness to not take coronavirus seriously is a major cause of our increased sales tax collections… but…
In Governor Kristi Noem’s world, Indian tribes can’t stop motorists on their sovereign territory to make sure they aren’t bringing coronavirus into their communities, but…
Back in December, Black Hills resident and wildfire expert Bill Gabbert called shooting off tons of fireworks over a ponderosa pine forest in July “literally…
Having let its coronavirus precautions expire, the Aberdeen City Council can now turn to more pressing public health risks, like the smoking, fuming conflagrations in…