Last Sunday, my local paper called Senator Mike Rounds “silly” for refusing to do his job and consider President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.…
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Among the less-than-truths Mike Rounds used in 2014 to become our U.S. Senator was his claim that we needed to build Keystone XL to free up…
With Governor Dennis Daugaard’s endorsement, Pam Roberts won her current position as South Dakota Republican Party chair last year. Now just beginning her second year in…
According to DCI, Stephanie Hubers knew something was wrong in Scott and Nicole Westerhuis’s budget fudgery at Mid-Central Educational Cooperative before the Department of Education…
When I heard the news about Speaker Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday on the state of American politics, his rejection of “makers vs. takers” rhetoric and…
In the worst-kept secret in District 19, Stace Nelson is running for Senate. The former two-term House member, who took a break from politics after…
Odd couples get odder…. Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal that we get to vote on in November, has already brought together 2014 Democratic U.S. Senate…
Mr. Pay alerts us to the sinking of the borehole nuclear waste disposal test project in North Dakota and the possibility that South Dakota might get a…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative is still taking applications for its executive director position through Friday, but with its retiring exec Dan Guericke on administrative leave due…
Columnist Jim Kent and the Rapid City Journal editorial board have butted heads for the last time. On March 10, RCJ booted Kent from its pages after a…