If the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe can turn their bowling alley into a pot-smoking hall, the Standing Rock Reservation ought to be able to grow…
Dakota Free Press Posts
You know you’re the best blog in South Dakota, don’t you? I’m paraphrasing, just a little, but honest to Gaia, a person I’d never met…
Hoorah for reason over blind parochialism! Stu Whitney doesn’t call Rep. Roger Hunt a pervert for asking for visual inspections of transgender students’ genitalia, but he does…
Listening to South Dakota Public Radio this morning, I think I heard Secretary of Education Melody Schopp say that the new K-12 social studies standards approved by…
Mendacious payday lender front-woman Lisa Furlong won’t talk to South Dakota Public Broadcasting about her fake 18%-rate-cap petition: The petition would only provide an 18 percent…
Is Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether on another power trip? Earlier this month, Mayor Huether ordered a review of the Convention and Visitors Bureau Business Improvement…
When the South Dakota Legislature created the Building South Dakota economic development fund in 2013, I responded with ambivalence: the program resulted from Democrats’ successful use of the voter…
Wait a minute: Kevin Woster floats the possibility of Rapid City journalist and filmmaker Sam Hurst running for U.S. Senate, and Pat Powers derisively dismisses…
On top of everything else, the South Dakota High School Activities Association Board of Directors will give second reading tomorrow to a new policy on…
Rep. Roger Hunt (R-25/Brandon) wants transgender students to drop trou and show their genitalia so officials may overrule the students’ gender identification with their apparent…