After losing two newspapers to market forces that don’t value local journalism, Kingsbury County is trying to establish a new weekly newspaper running on volunteer…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Doug Ekeren, president of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, says that a modified model predicts a peak of about 132,000 to 133,000 South Dakotans…
An eager reader points out the coincidence of the day: Governor Kristi Noem’s recently imported senior fantasist and press whacker, Marguerite “Maggie” Seidel, married a…
I haven’t heard my mayor say one intelligent thing on public policy since the onset of our ongoing covid-19 pandemic. For sensible responses to public…
The American Legion’s national Americanism Commission canceled its Legion baseball regional tournaments and World Series on April 7. But South Dakota’s American Legion baseball commissioners…
Smithfield Foods has been trying to scare us away from restricting its activities at its coronavirus-riddled Sioux Falls plant by warning that any disruption of…
Seventeen legislators have signed a letter to Governor Kristi Noem telling her to drop her demand that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux…
Mayor Paul TenHaken voted to ease municipal restrictions on Sioux Falls businesses last week, but he’s not going out to dinner to celebrate: Sioux Falls…
Governor Kristi Noem is demanding that our Lakota neighbors stop taking coronavirus so seriously: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday told tribes to take…
District 7, which is mostly Brookings but includes just enough rural area to let Volga’s Doug Post run, has three-way Republican primary for House. Rep.…