Down with security theater! We have no evidence that TSA screenings at the airport stop any terrorists. Undercover Homeland Security agents have been able to sneak guns and…
Dakota Free Press Posts
KDLT overtags its story on the impact of the “late” starts and finishes to the Sioux Falls school year. Last year, Sioux Falls school district voters…
In the South Dakota Blogosphere, this liberal outpost opposes Amendment S, the redundant astroturf crime victims bill of rights known nationally as Marsy’s Law, while my opposite…
Could the Daugaard Administration be seeing the light on a progressive tax system? Bob Mercer reports that Pat Costello, chief of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, told the…
Correction: while the Board of Regents spent what seems like an inordinate amount of money ($156,000) to make an in-house hire for SDSU’s next president, they did not spend some…
If North Dakota allows corporations to buy up swine and dairy operations, maybe Senator Chuck Grassley can rescue small livestock growers from that corporate takeover. Iowa’s…
My morning paper reminds me that fish in a couple of area lakes continue to carry a bit too much mercury. The Department of Health now posts mercury…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t running for reëlection, but he’s watching his Legislative baby like a hawk. Recall that Rep. Schoenbeck saved the teacher pay-raise plan last winter…
The gentleman I seek to replace in the Legislature, Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen), is noted for “taking the lead” on a 2015 elder abuse task force that…
Pat Powers mumbled something this morning about needing the Dakota Access pipeline to free up rail cars for agriculture products. But the decreased railroad volumes…