In more evidence that we all need to know our petition law, Rapid City municipal candidates may have to throw out some signatures they’ve collected and start…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Kinda surprising: Melissa Mentele’s filing of an affidavit to challenge Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s rejection of her medical cannabis initiative petition. Really surprising: Secretary Krebs’s…
It’s official: I have already won half of my District 3 Senate campaign by driving the current underperforming incumbent from his seat: After 10 years in…
KELO-TV reports that store owners face a “learning curve” in implementing the half-penny increase in the state sales tax coming June 1: “I don’t know how that’s…
The most vile speech of the week in Pierre comes from Rep. Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls). Speaking in favor of overriding Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of…
This week’s Don’t Give Up Award goes not to Rep. Fred Deutsch, who grimly promised today to spend all summer coming up with a stronger, better, faster way…
Transphobia, same-sex marriage, colonialism, genocide, and Keystone XL? Why yes, it is all connected, just like all of us. So say the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota signatories…
A Catholic South Dakota Democrat and a Mormon Utah Republican, and a British comedian all come to the same conclusion: Donald Trump is a fraud. John…
In another victory for keeping the Legislature’s nose out of school locker rooms and bathrooms, Senate Education this morning quashed House Bill 1112, Rep. Roger…
KOTA-TV’s Yasser Kishk reports that the 45-turbine Willow Creek wind farm near Newell will bring 250 temporary construction jobs, a half-dozen permanent jobs, and $190,000 a year…