Turnout in local elections suggests democracy is losing to apathy: Rapid City school election: 33.6% [Update 12:25 CDT: Pennington County election supervisor Lori Severson tells me there…
Category: South Dakota
I stopped by the Brown County Courthouse a couple hours ago and voted in today’s Aberdeen Central school board election. I was voter #337 in the community. Mayor…
DiSanto Prefers School Consolidation! State legislators Phil Jensen, Lance Russell, Blaine Campbell, and Lynne DiSanto staged a press conference yesterday to express their opposition to the Rapid…
If Rapid Creek doesn’t wash the ballot boxes away, Rapid City voters will pick their mayor for the next two years today. How are the…
Why are Twin Cities Somali immigrants more likely to radicalize and join ISIS than Sioux Falls Somalis? Assimilation, says writer and researcher Justin Hienz: [The…
A sign of a problem in civics education lies in this morning’s AAN article on Boys State: More than 300 high school seniors-to-be arrived on the…
To demonstrate that political labels dissolve in municipal elections, conservative Rip Ryness posts the following graphic to encourage his Rapid City neighbors to re-elect Mayor Sam Kooiker…
AP reports that the FBI has closed its investigation of South Dakota’s shady EB-5 program. U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler reviewed the evidence and decided not to press charges.…
Steve Allender hit Rapid City mailboxes last week with this postcard showing all sorts of Rapid City residents endorsing him for mayor… including at least five who can’t vote…
Maybe we South Dakotans need to look to the Nebraska Legislature for examples of good sense. Not only did Nebraska repeal its death penalty, but…