The #1 item on the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda is the opportunity to raise South Dakota teacher pay from 51st in the nation to 37th… or maybe…
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Remember the awesome landing SpaceX made last month with its reusable Falcon 9 first-stage rocket? This month’s attempt was almost as successful… and almost in rocketry is bad…
Last year Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) and the Republican majority in the Legislature made the error of undoing the will of the people expressed in Initiated…
…and democracy is hard work! My friends at Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, who also pay good money to advertise on this blog, graciously allowed me to hold…
In a report on Senator Bernie Sanders’s apparent popularity among young women, USA Today quotes USD student Taryn Hogarth on her willingness to jump the gender gap for…
Rep. Mike Verchio (R-20/Hill City) has delivered the industrial hemp proposal he promised last fall. House Bill 1054 would create a framework of state and federal background…
Mr. Kurtz mentioned this program back in December; an eager reader reminds me in the comment section that Bridge Flandreau kicks off its Racism Study Circles…
Uh oh: Is Governor Dennis Daugaard headed for the same ignominious fiscal failure as his predecessor, M. Michael Rounds? The Bureau of Finance and Management released budget projections…
My neighbor and NSU education professor Alan Neville uses his column in the Aberdeen American News this morning to urge passage of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay raise plan: On…
Something must have frozen over this morning—I wake up, read the papers, and have to admit that Donald Trump is proposing a healthy and inclusive vision…