Mike Huether apparently has his own internal corruption scandal on his hands. After firing Fire Chief Jim Sideras two months before his planned retirement, banning Sideras from…
Category: South Dakota
On Monday, Donald Trump agreed that the Affordable Care Act is the standard for good health coverage legislation… at least when it comes to pre-existing conditions:…
Whoo-hoo—the newest Dakota Free Press podcast heads to the farm to interview school board member Brian Sharp, who is running for reëlection. Sharp is the only active…
Seeming to coordinate with SDGOP chair Dan Lederman’s bushwah about inclusiveness, Governor Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota’s effort to write religious discrimination into law doesn’t make us…
Some Minnesota IT folks have put together TakeBackYourState.com. The website’s goal is to give voters “a forum to share their opinion on the bills being discussed…
When I toured the site of Azarga’s (then Powertech’s) proposed uranium mining site north of Edgemont in 2014, the project leaders told me that their in-situ recovery mining…
The funniest line heard on South Dakota Public Broadcasting so far this young month is this quote from South Dakota Republican Party chairman Dan Lederman: The millennial…
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comment on the two draft permits it wants to issue to foreign corporation Azarga/Powertech to shoot water into…
Speaking of the South Dakota Retirement System, the state pension program’s FY2016 financial report breaks down beneficiaries by county: Statewide, 2.61% of South Dakota residents received…
I have in my hands an official state ballot inviting me to vote for public officials by mail or online. Yesterday the mailman brought me a…