In response to Bob Mercer’s suggestion that South Dakota require petition circulators to register, provide photo ID and proof of residence, and sign a statement pledging…
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While we Aberdonians have been getting all excited about the dust-up over Brown County IT chief Paul Sivertsen’s questionable activities on the taxpayer dime, Jonathan…
At the end of July, two big, expensive Tibetan mastiffs owned by Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) got loose, biting a female pedestrian and a police officer.…
Let me try to keep my editorializing to a minimum and simply show you what I saw around town this morning. On my way out…
Stu Whitney earns his pay for the week with his lengthy profile of alpha barista and payday-lender fighter Steve Hildebrand. Whitney reports that the intense fight for…
Three petitioners carrying the fake 18% rate cap petition were ejected from the Brown County Fairgrounds today for petitioning without permission of the NESD Celtic Faire and Games, the…
I don’t watch MSNBC, but MSNBC watches Dakota Free Press: Rachel Maddow apparently opened her show last night with a graphic showing screen caps of the AP, CNN,…
On Thursday, Angela Kennecke sought some legal perspective from Attorney General Marty Jackley on the allegedly illegal tactics of out-of-state petition circulators. A.G. Jackley was somewhat…
Petitioners collecting signatures for the fake 18% rate cap at SDSU yesterday appeared unable to give signers accurate information about the proposed constitutional amendment they are circulating. SDSU…
Update 2015.09.19 00:03 CDT: After I posted this article, Bob Mercer corrected his article to state that the Local 49 proposal is an initiated measure and not…