Permit me a few minutes to talk about Bernie Sanders, my favorite candidate in the 2016 Presidential field. A couple weeks ago, Sanders appeared by video at…
Dakota Free Press Posts
An online petition calls on Attorney General Marty Jackley to investigate Springfield police officer Douglas Magee for shooting a dog. In a two-page statement filed…
Patrick Anderson reports that in the twenty years since the South Dakota Legislature stopped mandating and funding gifted education, 87% of local gifted education programs have…
With the Sioux Empire Fair wrapping up today, Lisa Furlong’s fake petitioners will have to take their decoy effort on the road. Watch out for their obviously…
KELO-TV repeats (with reminders from Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Deuel) that the teacher shortage is real, which invites Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) and I to have…
What happens to a Chamber of Commerce when it caves to local politics, fires its ambitious and effective executive director, and lets the city kick it out of a…
Blogospheric neighbor Ken Santema notices that Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) published the list of legislators who responded to her call for a special session of the Legislature…
The leaders of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students are urging us teachers to be nice to them: Two state legislators…
Remember that letter John Thune, Mike Rounds, and 45 other Senators sent to Iran’s mullahs last March to undermine President Barack Obama’s effort to negotiate a deal to…
Governing crunches a whole lot of numbers from the IRS to determine where wealth moved in the United States from 2011 to 2012. The IRS data show the…