USD political science professor Timothy Schorn says Republican attacks on professors’ First Amendment rights are part of a “national effort to chill speech and control…
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In a press release titled “A Shared Land,” Governor Larry Rhoden wanders rhetorically toward his acknowledgement of Native American Day in South Dakota by cheering…
The Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school board is throwing in the towel… [Update 2025.10.15: …or so it might seem if you just read the board minutes! As indicated…
I am ashamed to live in a nation whose authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler claims he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the actual winner, Maria…
Watch out for Sheriff Rosco clicking his remote control north of Flandreau. The Department of Transportation is putting up variable speed limit signs between the…
Governor Larry Rhoden issued a curious little executive order Wednesday, rescinding 151 old executive orders from as far back as 1961. Rhoden touted these rescindments…
The Project 2025 Administration‘s to make America dumber and weaker proceeds apace, now with the war on immigrants synergizing with the war on education to…
On Tuesday, Governor Larry Rhoden named the members of his new correctional rehabilitation task force. Here’s the full roster of 30 South Dakotans tasked with…
Well, we think we’ll have enough beds in the new Rhoden/Venhuizen prison to hold all of our overflow prisoners, but South Dakota’s prison population growth…
The state refuses to accept Judge Camela C. Theeler’s ruling that Speaker Jon Hansen once again disregarded the First Amendment when he pushed the initiative…