The populist Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party beat the pro-capitalist Obama-Clinton wing yesterday, uniting 44 out of 45 Senate Democrats to shut down the President’s request to fast-track the…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Attorney General Marty Jackley sends this blog the titles of the five proposed ballot initiatives currently on his desk for review: An Act to provide for a limit…
Tom Black occasionally hosts what he calls the Aberdeen City Council Observer on Facebook. He’s working through a series of questions with incumbent SE district candidate Laure…
Dean Kurtz of Custer sends a fine letter to the editor of the Hot Springs Star criticizing Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage. He tells his neighbors that signing…
Another major South Dakota industry is calling for looser immigration rules to boost its workforce recruiting. At a public forum with Attorney General Marty Jackley in Deadwood…
In the Tea Leaves Department, Attorney General Marty Jackley may have given a hint of a ballot initiative coming to the petition trail at a Deadwood forum last…
Rep. Kristi Noem, whom do you support more, soldiers or bankers? The Defense Department has proposed regulations to close loopholes in the Military Lending Act that allow payday…
Ken Santema reports on the Keystone XL protest held in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s visit to Watertown last week. He finds that the protesters, largely American…
A new Pew report shows that millennials (ages 18–34) took over from us Generation Xers (ages 35–50) as the largest chunk of the U.S. workforce in…
Steve Allender started blogging in July 2011, when he was Rapid City’s police chief. He wrote straightforward, often pointed responses to issues like the October 2013 blizzard response and, after…