South Dakota’s teacher shortage is so bad that we now have to import teachers from the Philippines. So says Richard Bad Milk, superintendent at St.…
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Senator John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem visited Pine Ridge last week and heard about the “spikes in suicide rates, including some children, and ongoing…
I enjoyed a pleasant couple hours circulating petitions in beautiful downtown Webster yesterday. Among my adventures was my first encounter all year with a government employee telling me to…
Dakota State University announced plans last June to plunk the new Miles Beacom IT building on the southeast corner of campus. That chunk of campus is…
For your Tuesday enjoyment, read the complaint filed by the State of South Dakota against SDRC, Inc., the corporation created by Joop Bollen of Aberdeen in…
If we can’t make cool stuff in South Dakota, we can at least paint it: Polaris Industries, manufacturer of Indian and Victory motorcycles, will turn…
How can you tell the difference between a shady petition circulator who’s up to no good and a real South Dakota circulator who’s trying to put an honest…
With lots of ballot measures coming up in the 2016 election (not to mention a possible local referendum on bonds for a new public library here…
The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
Kurt Evans is out of the U.S. Senate campaign. In a comment to this blog on Sunday, Evans says simply that he’s calling off the Independent bid that he…