In a small victory for freedom of the press over corporate-ag fascism, a federal judge in Idaho has ruled that a 2014 law banning secret videotaping at agricultural…
Category: South Dakota
The mainstream media pick up quickly on the story I broke Sunday about the fake 18%-rate-cap petition being circulated at the Sioux Empire Fair. KSFY,…
The Public Utilities Commission spent last week listening to TransCanada tell them again why South Dakota should bear all of the externalities of its tar sands…
Minnesota fur farmer Terri Petter blames Deadwood and South Dakota’s overregulation and hypocrisy for the closure of her Fur-Ever “Wild” exhibit of wolf pups and other pelting-stock in…
Enough toe-dipping—Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) officially, truly, for reals, wants to be your next Congresswoman. Here’s the press release, straight from her official, true, for…
Mike Rounds doesn’t listen to me, but maybe Kristi Noem does. South Dakota’s lone Representative backs the provision in the pending revision of the Elementary…
I like my local paper. The Aberdeen American News publishes a fair array of informative local and state news articles, plus just enough really stupid articles to make…
Governor Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel holds its second meeting on Wednesday, August 19, in Pierre. I’m not sure what they have left to talk about, since it…
Someone is committing petition fraud at the Sioux Empire Fair. A Dakota Free Press correspondent sends this video of two men trying to trick fairgoers into…
Bob Mercer reports that the $950,000/year contract with SDGOP crony firm Lawrence & Schiller that the South Dakota Lottery Commission approved without reading will get the lottery…