Sioux Falls elementary teacher Jennifer Egstad puts the Common Core tests in proper perspective for her third-grade Spanish immersion students: The “Smarter Balanced” standardized tests…
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In our discussion of the apparent ineligibility of Bennett County state’s attorney Kenneth Orrock and one of his three challengers, Shiloh MacNally, for that office due to…
Care to read the whole argument from the Save Farmers Union Coalition behind their effort to oust South Dakota Farmers Union’s leadership and hold new…
In good news, South Dakota Farmers Union members in District 7 have reaffirmed their support for Amendment T, the proposal to end gerrymandering by empaneling an…
Senator Mike Rounds spent a lot of time at a Yankton meeting last month shouting Donald Trump’s campaign slogan and blaming the media for the negative…
The real kicker in Angela Kennecke’s latest GEAR UP story is at the bottom, where she notes that a Stacy Phelps chum and player in the scandal-plagued Mid-Central-run version of GEAR…
The failure of South Dakota’s GEAR UP program to produce evidence of success in getting more kids to college is not unique. Angela Kennecke finds a spring 2013…
Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen takes an enlightened and pragmatic view of immigration in a nation built by immigrants. At an April 4 community meeting on outreach to immigrants, Mayor…
Earth Day is Friday. What are you going to do about it? How about clean up downtown Aberdeen and go to the Green Aberdeen Earth Day…
I picked the rainiest day of the year in Hutchinson County to visit Mile Marker 410 of the TransCanada Keystone tar sands oil pipeline. What…