I report today from SkepDakota, a conference for freethinkers of various stripes in Sioux Falls. I hope to do some interviews with fellow atheists, agnostics,…
Dakota Free Press Posts
This isn’t just hipster irony, is it? In absurdly wonderful marketing news, the liberal Huffington Post that ought to give anti-Coastal South Dakotans heartburn labels South Dakota’s Queen…
An eager reader shares a post from Minneapolis high school language arts teacher Ben MacKenzie on how to attract more teachers to K-12 education: I believe…
Rookie Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) told Ken Santema two weeks ago that she sees an imbalance of power in Pierre that favors the executive branch: Going into her…
Here’s a bill Senators Thune and Rounds should work to change. Senate Appropriations has moved a funding bill that quadruples the length of the form that taxpayers…
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…
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…