It’s final push time for initiative petitions! The organizers behind the seven initiated laws and five constitutional amendments approved for circulation by the Secretary of State have 27…
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The good news is that Madison has just passed a policy that will allow energetic residents who build home energy generation systems to sell their excess power back to…
Bob Mercer sounds unimpressed with the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. In his latest blog post, he appears to dismiss the 26-member panel’s…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch thinks the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help South Dakota farmers by further opening foreign markets for our ag exports. Ag columnist…
Two eager readers provide a serendipitous juxtaposition of articles on handouts. A Republican friend sends me Matt Bruenig’s “Case Against Free College” from the New Republic. Supposing and…
So I’m biking home and I see a dusty cloud rising above the sylvan Aberdeen skyline. What the heck is that? In a minute, I’m biking through…
The payday lenders must be scared. As if circulating their fake 18%-rate-cap petition and hiring out-of-state mercenaries to “block” South Dakota petition circulators isn’t enough, Lisa Furlong’s payday-lender…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…
We have the chance to hear the first substantive debate of the 2016 Presidential election on Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. Central, 7 p.m.…