The South Dakota Board of Regents is gambling that the coronavirus will be contained by August. After an executive session teleconference yesterday, the Regents announced…
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Donald Trump is coming to Mount Rushmore this summer. Even though Watertown has canceled its Independence Day fireworks display out of concern for coronavirus spread…
Someone finally asked Governor Kristi Noem whether she had discussed Lieutenant Governor Larry Rhoden’s presence at the lobbyist house party at which Senators Brock Greenfield…
July 11 isn’t late enough to plan for public events. So says the Brookings Summer Arts Festival Board of Directors, which announced yesterday they are…
Coronavirus has wiped out the Obama jobs recovery: More than 3.8 million workers in the US filed for unemployment benefits last week as the country…
South Dakota Voices for Justice, the ACLU, Dakota Rural Action, and dozens of other organizations and individuals have signed an open letter asking Governor Kristi…
Governor Kristi Noem won’t enforce measures to protect public health, but she’s happy to use the pandemic as an excuse to repeal laws. In yet…
Bob Mercer notes the latest economic metrics from the Bureau of Finance and Management. They’re all bad. Job openings advertised online across South Dakota have…
Some Republicans are preaching the weird, false narrative that Democrats are using the coronavirus pandemic to take away people’s freedom and wreck the economy to…
Governor Kristi Noem’s “plan” for reopening businesses amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic includes some underemphasized criteria for determining when it is safe to start to…