While South Dakota has chronically low wages, the bar and casino operators want workers to be able to gamble away more of their sparse earnings:…
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I regularly post analyses showing that South Dakota’s low wages, especially South Dakota’s bottom-of-the-barrel teacher wages, are not justified by any fantastical notions of lower…
“Well, I’m with the landowners and always have been,” said Governor Kristi Noem last summer in response to concerns about carbon dioxide pipeliners trying to…
Just a couple weeks ago, Virgin Atlantic staged a trans-Atlantic flight of a passenger jet on 100% “sustainable aviation fuel”—in this case, a blend of…
One good thing about having a political party taken over by a bunch of cheap-ass state-wrecking rednecks is that they drive sensible capitalist donors away:…
Artificial intelligence may not have to turn into SkyNet or diminish our critical thinking skills to destroy civilization. Artificial intelligence may just push climate change…
Still speaking of ballot measures, did anyone else notice that Senator Julie Frye-Mueller’s improperly submitted property tax cap initiative also includes an improper enactment date?…
Speaking of ballot measures, the expansion of Medicaid that South Dakota voters smartly approved last November may not be costing the state nearly as much…
Dakotans for Health occasionally pays me for nerd work. Dakotans for Health has never paid me to write posts on Dakota Free Press. Planned Parenthood…
Governor Kristi Noem offered a rather uninspired, status-quo budget speech yesterday. She does propose a 4% increase in funding for schools, state employees, and healthcare…