Pat Powers, whose party has brought us Donald Trump, has the tone-deafness to complain about Dakota Access Pipeline opponents using “scare tactics” to achieve their political objectives. Har…
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Kevin Woster is retiring from KELO-TV. The long-time newspaper man went video three years ago. Woster loves telling stories, but he says TV journalism is no…
Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump in South Dakota… in fundraising. According to Christopher Doering’s reading of FEC reports through the end of July, Clinton has…
Conservatives celebrate Big Oil projects and ridicule environmentalists who argue that we should leave oil in the ground. Yet conservative former legislator, now Bon Homme County…
The Pro and Con statements on Amendment R, the measure to clarify governance of our vo-tech schools, show a battle between the two wings of…
House Majority Leader Brian Gosch says Republicans made Referred Law 19, so “Every voter, especially Republicans, should support Referred Law 19.” The South Dakota Democratic Party…
Regular readers know I’m big on direct democracy. We can’t vote on everything—governments and organizations need governing boards and executives who can make certain decisions without having…
Governing says that South Dakota has the 15th-strongest economy in the United States. We tie with three other states for that distinction: Georgia, Nebraska, and…
The U.S. Department of Energy is soliciting new bids for the Deep Borehole Field Test: The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID) requests proposals for…