World Refugee Day is next week, Tuesday, June 20. In recognition of the millions of human beings who have had to flee their homelands due…
Category: South Dakota
In Tuesday’s empty political theater, South Dakota’s lone Congressman Kristi Noem met with Vice-President Mike Pence to chat about nothing in particular: Rep. Kristi Noem…
Hooray for Lee Schoenbeck, crusader against corporate fascism! Jonathan Ellis reported last weekend that insurance companies are trying to limit the ability of injured workers…
The last invitation to a megabuck (well, technically, kilobuck) fundraiser for Marty Jackley‘s gubernatorial campaign suggests one area of support where Jackley may, surprisingly, get…
Anyone wishing to shift any grief over the Legislature’s stopgap action on nonmeandered waters to the Department of Game Fish & Parks should note GF&P’s…
The nonmeandered waters legislation passed in yesterday’s special session of the Legislature is so bad— —how bad is it?— —it’s so bad that the biggest…
I heard during the votes this afternoon that Senators Jenna Haggar Netherton and Deb Peters and Representatives Craig Tieszen and Lynne DiSanto are excused from…
The Department of Education provides this awesome chart plotting the English and math proficiency rates of every school—not just school district, but school building—that had…
The Aberdeen Public Library gets a $35K grant from the Knight Foundation in its “Knight Cities Challenge” to create “The A Place,” a facility “opening a…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in special session today in Pierre to deal with the issue of nonmeandered waters, the lakes over private lands that…