Yesterday’s local elections put a little extra spring in my step. I told folks in Brookings that they should vote for my friend Scott Meyer, and they…
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While we’re talking about ways to fight the poverty and despair that drive the high youth suicide rates on South Dakota’s Indian reservations, Mr. Kurtz notices that First…
Marty, Marty, Marty—you and I could make better TV than this. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley sits down with Jessica Shyba, a New York…
High school Democrats! If you’re looking for a way to get involved with the correct side of South Dakota politics, here’s an opportunity. The High School Democrats of…
Energy Transfer Partners continue to stockpile pipe for their Dakota Access Pipeline west of Aberdeen. Train cars still stand here in Aberdeen, awaiting unloading at the Mina stockpile.…
Well, we obviously can’t elect Rand Paul President. He’ll End the Fed, and that will kill economic development on the reservations. Paul hates Indians! The Federal Reserve Bank of…
My petitioning friends and I have 90 days to gather enough signatures to pause the Legislature’s bad ideas. Some civic brainstormers in Yankton have given themselves 100…
South Dakota Progress formed last winter in response to the Democratic Party’s continued underperformance in South Dakota elections. SDP’s mission: to recruit, train, and support good progressive candidates…
That Sioux Falls paper picks up a March 23 article from the Tri-State Neighbor that repeats a cry we’ve heard before from other CAFO dons: South Dakota’s big dairies want Uncle…
Speaking of dependence on federal handouts, the Black Hills Knowledge Network posted last November that South Dakotans do not claim nearly as much of a housing subsidy via the…