The Deadwood City Commission finally got around to passing its exotic-animal ban. The new ordinance, given first reading over a month ago and delayed by some legal…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Wealth is power. Inequality of wealth is inequality of power. The more wealth one has, the more people one can hire, and the more power one…
When Capital One expanded its call center in Sioux Falls in 2012, all of South Dakota’s leading lights came to cheer: Recall that the people in…
In raw dollars, South Dakota’s $8.50 an hour is the 11th-best in the nation. Nine states and D.C. guarantee a higher basic wage. No neighboring…
Don’t want a foreign company using eminent domain to take South Dakotans’ land and subject our crops, cattle, and aquifers to tar sands pollution? Then get…
Sioux Falls Drinking Liberally (which proudly sponsors this blog) offers some news on the status of the long-awaited new executive director for the South Dakota Democratic Party:…
Two guys are standing outside the Army recruiting office in Sioux Falls with guns. These vigilantes are responding to an unestablished threat and using guns to promote…
Petition fraudster Clayton Walker surrendered yesterday, pleading guilty to two of the twelve felony counts filed against him for faking signatures on his failed U.S. Senate…
I learn from Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News that I’m in cahoots with Marty Jackley again. On June 15, the Libertarian and Constitution parties sued…