The Supreme Court of the United States yesterday refused to block a lower court order that Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis issue marriage licenses…
Category: South Dakota
I smell something funny in the fiscal impact statements on the marijuana-related ballot measures currently being petitioned around South Dakota. The Legislative Research Council has…
Last week reporter Kevin Woster trial-ballooned his Rapid City neighbor and fellow journalist Sam Hurst as a possible Senate candidate. This week Todd Epp makes similar Twitter noise…
John Tsitrian attended his new mayor Steve Allender’s speech at the Black Hills Forum and Press Club Friday. Tsitrian found Mayor Allender’s speech a bit fuzzy and the questions…
I go fishing for irony and find that Northern State University believes same-sex cohabitation may strengthen the institution of marriage: “A lot of students want singles,…
Bob Mercer reports that attendance at Department of Transportation public meetings has been declining. DOT officials think that’s a good sign: Attendance has dropped, acknowledged Mike…
Uh oh—my spin around the Hub City finds the end of the Moccasin Creek Trail at Melgaard Road all torn up: But wait: this is good news!…
Sorry, no SkepDakota videos! Opportunities for enriching one-on-one conversations arose, and I couldn’t pass that up. Three friends, six hours—entirely worth the journalistic sacrifice. Thank you, dear friends, for…
I report today from SkepDakota, a conference for freethinkers of various stripes in Sioux Falls. I hope to do some interviews with fellow atheists, agnostics,…