The word university lost significance in South Dakota in 1989 when we decided to call Northern, Dakota State, and Black Hills State universities because College just didn’t sound…
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Steve Hildebrand helped Barack Obama win the Presidency in 2008. But he tells Kevin Woster that capping interest rates to check predatory lenders in South Dakota…
I can’t figure out why the press is misportraying Rep. Elizabeth May’s call for a special session of the Legislature. It is clear to the South Dakota blogosphere, reporter Bob…
South Dakota, well done! We got two measures—Referred Law 19 (petition reform) and Referred Law 20 (youth minimum wage)—on the ballot. We have stopped these two bad…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender took office on Monday. On Friday, his successor in the police department, Chief Karl Jegeris, announced that he is hiring Lakota speaker and student-activist Vaughn Vargas…
The usury industry appears to be mobilizing more resources to fight the proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at 36% and box predatory payday lenders out…
Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) and other members of the Legislature’s Mugwump Rump are calling for a special session. The KCCR interview with Rep. May Wednesday made it sound like…
Elisa Sand reports that the Knight Foundation has given Aberdeen $20K to see how suitable the upper floors of our august downtown buildings are for housing. Heidi Appel, Aberdeen…
An eager reader paging through state government documents (because that’s what Dakota Free Press readers do!) notices this flowchart showing who got the $8.9 million in gaming…