Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House January 6 Committee, said on ABC News yesterday that last January’s insurrection at the Capitol wasn’t just…
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It’s hard to get reporters to cover the South Dakota Legislature and state government in general. The geographic isolation of Pierre, where the Legislature meets…
My 2021 Blog Wish List didn’t come true. Killer Jason Ravnsborg still hasn’t spent a day in jail, one in three vaccine-eligible South Dakotans still…
That’s funny: I had the impression that I was writing less this year. My stats confirm that in 2021, I published only 1,202 posts on…
If “top stories” are defined by the amount of conversation they generate, then the following table shows the top stories of 2021. Here are the…
The Dakota Free Press comment section saw a decline in activity this year. This blog fielded 18,336 approved comments consisting of approximately 1.495 million words…
Happy New Year! It’s 2022, so pass me some of that tasty Soylent Green, and let’s see what you ingredients were reading while the world came…
South Dakota’s minimum wage rises fifty cents tomorrow, from $9.45 to $9.95 an hour. Happy New Year, and, once again, workers, thank Democrats! But even…
Ukraine’s border problem is far worse than America’s border problem. All we have is millions of willing workers coming in to satisfy the demands of…
The South Dakota Unified Justice System still hasn’t delivered on producing an easily accessible system for accessing state court documents online ($20 per search? Come…