The South Dakota Open Meetings Commission ruled unanimously yesterday that Deadwood mayor Chuck Turbiville and commissioners David Ruth, Jr., and Jim Van Den Eykel held an illegal…
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Among the interesting people I met at McGovern Day last Saturday were Jackie Diaz and Alex Ramirez of USA Media TV. Their Sioux Falls-baed media…
The Bon Homme County Commission stalled an effort Tuesday to tighten regulation of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). With the pressure on from neighbors and farmers…
This Session, the South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Bill 98, which repealed the ban on corporate ownership of hog farms in South Dakota. That action was…
The Sioux Falls Development Foundation sat on $91,000 of its city subsidy last year, and Sioux Falls still came out #1 in WalletHub’s ranking of the Best…
While South Dakota’s self-proclaimed “#1 Political Website” has thus far responded to the triumph of Trumpism with stunned silence, Rep. Kristi Noem and Senator Mike Rounds have officially surrendered their…
Revenue Secretary Andy Gerlach tells Dakota Free Press that 68 retailers have agreed to comply with South Dakota’s new remote seller sales tax law, the hotly contested…
When I cast my vote in the Democratic Presidential primary at the Brown County courthouse yesterday during lunch, I was the 199th early voter in Brown…
Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether just increased his stock at Dakota Free Press (and hey—given how little stock he has with me, any increase is significant). Evidently…
Providing the home-based and community-based care that the Department of Justice says we must to comply with the ADA could save us half the money…