After five years of fundraising and planning, the Arc of Dreams is going up over the Big Sioux River just upstream from our largest city’s…
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An eager reader sends me a photo of a Dakota Dunes service truck with official exempt entity municipal license plates: Dakota Dunes is not, however,…
While Governor Kristi Noem feels the need to lock herself up behind a fence, the state is locking fewer people up in its prisons. The…
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.…
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…