If you can’t make it to Melgaard Park in Aberdeen this evening to visit with Jay Williams, you can check out the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate’s…
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In a state where right-to-fire laws defang labor, where teachers have no right to strike, and where school boards have the authority to impose contracts unilaterally, what’s a teacher’s…
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s unfortunate Sunday morning tweet about reaping what one sows right after the Orlando shooting shows the danger of pre-scheduling social media posts. The…
On Friday, investigators began showing up on the doorsteps of individuals who circulated petitions for Initiated Measure 21, the 36% rate cap on payday loans. Two Rapid City circulators…
Grassy buffer strips may rise to fight another day! Mike Jaspers, whom Governor Dennis Daugaard has appointed to replace Jaspers’s brother-in-law Lucas Lentsch as Secretary of Agriculture,…
Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t endorsed his party’s Presidential nominee (he voted for John Kasich and appointed to state court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, against whom Donald Trump has…
Back in 2012, when Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed funding the Rushmore Connector Trail between the Mickelson Trail at Hill City and Mount Rushmore, I said it sounded like…
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noticed that Hillary Clinton’s win in South Dakota’s primary mildly defied the general assumption that Bernie Sanders played best in white, rural states…
Why would a good progressive liberal like me cheer the primary victory of Stace Nelson, a right-wingnut whose anti-tax, anti-government, anti-public education, anti-abortion extremism would wreak chaos…
Hey, Dennis! Primary’s over! Where’s the special session? Rick Knobe says it’s time to convene the Legislature to expand Medicaid. He says the Republicanism that has…