Speaking of income inequality (thank you, Senator Sanders!), Governing offers this clickable map showing that economic growth has outpaced median income growth in every state: From 2000 to…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Elisa Sand tweets that the Aberdeen City Council voted last night to express its opposition to the gerrymandering practiced by the South Dakota Legislature and its support…
Subtitle: Best Darn Speech of 2016. Jerry Falwell, Jr., required 12,000 Liberty University students to listen to Senator Bernie Sanders make a speech today. A conservative fundagelical…
“SIVERTSEN SPEAKS OUT,” my Sunday paper shouted. “Brown County IT chief fires back at job critics.” All right, I thought. Paul Sivertsen’s going to get…
Last week Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) tickled the South Dakota Right to Lifers who just elected him their president by saying he will introduce a bill…
The South Dakota Athletic Commission meets on Friday at 11 a.m. in the Kneip Building in Pierre. Their agenda includes discussion of possible rule changes. The agenda packet…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources may have excluded the grassroots from the process of drafting a new General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding…
Texas A&M reports that the majority of America’s dairy workers are immigrants: Nearly 77,000 immigrants worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 employees nationwide, according to a…
The Aberdeen American News editorial board wonders if Aberdeen’s low unemployment rate might have influenced Wyndham Hotel Group’s decision to axe its call center here and shift operations to Indianapolis…
The advisory board putting together the new state debt collection agency (that’s the “Obligation Recovery Center” created with no small contention by House Bill 1228 this year) meets Tuesday…