Double Disclosure: The Sioux Falls Democratic Forum pays me to advertise their Friday meetings in the sidebar, and Farmers Union is paying me to circulate their petition… but…
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In the backfire department, Sioux Falls businesswoman Tove Hoff Bormes is hanging out at Josiah’s Coffeehouse and Café this morning collecting signatures on the petition to put a…
The Department of Health reports that 40 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses in the first month following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v Hodges. That’s less than…
Big big hat tip to Julie Dermansky of Desmog Blog! Why might the Public Utilities Commission want to reverse its 2010 decision to permit TransCanada to build…
The predatory payday lenders dirty tricks multiply faster than the interest their victims have to pay. Steve Hildebrand, one of the leaders of the petition drive…
Friday I noted that South Dakota has the 11th-highest minimum wage in the nation, at $8.50 an hour. Come Saturday, Minnesota will bump us back to 12th:…
The state Board of Education took a step to ease South Dakota’s teacher shortage yesterday by making it easier to get certified to teach middle school…
Which story is bigger: George McGovern had two children outside of marriage, or J. Edgar Hoover used the powers of the FBI to dig up…
The Interagency Council on Homelessness is another good example of Mike Rounds’s failure as governor. During his first year in South Dakota’s big chair, Governor Rounds signed an executive…
The Public Utilities Commission has begun its seven-day evidentiary hearing on renewing TransCanada’s permit to build the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline across western South Dakota. You can listen…