South Dakota is not in the Top Ten for states relying on sin taxes. In FY 2014, we were #11: Rhode Island: 15.9% of state revenue…
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Jim Clark quit South Dakota Public Broadcasting on August 8, leaving South Dakota without his uniquely informative and thoughtful jazz programming. Clark now takes to the editorial pages…
The Pennington County Commission voted 3–2 on Tuesday to not oppose the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s effort to put the Pe’ Sla prairie oasis in the…
The Public Utilities Commission signals that it is turning into a bunch of war-on-oil liberals! Yesterday, along with setting September 30–October 2 and October 6–9 for the evidentiary…
Regal Entertainment Group is now searching moviegoers’ bags at its cinemas. Two clips reveal the fruitlessness of this overreactive security theater: Jeff Bock, box office analyst for theater-industry research firm Exhibitor…
Last month, Dallas Rulon Wilkinson was arrested for taking pictures up unsuspecting women’s skirts in public with a camera hidden on his shoe. Wilkinson immediately resigned from teaching…
Homosexual couples now have the right to get married in South Dakota, thanks to the Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit. But can homosexual couples adopt children?…
Attorney General Marty Jackley’s announcement Tuesday that Janice Howe of Harrold pled guilty to one charge of petition perjury sounded darned peculiar: Charges stem from the…
I listened to most of the second meeting of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students yesterday (you can too, as soon as…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel convenes today (listen live online 09:30–16:30 CDT here!). The panel, chaired by Republican legislators Rep. Jacqueline Sly (R-33/Rapid City) and…