Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed and the Legislature created the State Board of Internal Control in 2016 to better monitor how state agencies use federal grants.…
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Dr. David Newquist offers the fascinating thesis that Soviet agriculture failed not because of communism but because of the consolidation of farms under a science-denying…
Brain drain? What about bear drain? The bear that came over from Minnesota to check out Wilmot appears to have decided South Dakota isn’t for…
What do Dakota Free Press and Microsoft have in common? We’re both on the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce website! Microsoft is enjoying the spotlight…
The Brookings School District has publicly apologized to new graduate Miles Livermont for illegally seizing the eagle feather he wore to graduation last Sunday: A…
One more thread of South Dakota’s tawdry EB-5 story has reached an uninformative end, as the Tentexkota wheeler-dealers behind the Deadwood Mountain Grand casino and…
South Dakota farmers still haven’t planted most of what they plan to get into the ground this year. As of Sunday, we had in the…
My friends at the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry have sent out a preview of circulating and pending ballot measures to their members…
John L. Johnson had a reasonably good idea: build a museum in Rapid City to memorialize Medal of Honor recipients. Alas, he sunk it with…
Kristi Noem campaigned hamely on openness. Now that she occupies the Governor’s mansion, she wants closedness. Todd Epp finds that Governor Noem wants to spend…