I came home from my long Thanksgiving trip Sunday to find my a three-foot wall of snow blocking the sidewalk to my house and more…
Dakota Free Press Posts
The Government Operations and Audit Committee’s new education subgroup wants to spend some money. At yesterday’s tele-meeting, the education headhunters said they want to hire…
Governor Kristi Noem gets one small political victory before she ascends the podium for today’s budget address: after rushing an Attorney General’s investigation that found…
It’s been a rough couple weeks for Kristi Noem. She stuck her boot in South Dakota’s mouth with her unexpectedly (?!?) ridiculous and ridiculously expensive…
Back when he was trying to justify his vote for Trump’s billionaire tax cuts, Senator Marion Michael Rounds claimed that enacting those tax cuts would…
Speaking of Northern and its need to boost revenues, NSU President Timothy Downs is recommending offering more summer classes: In Aberdeen, Northern is looking at…
A couple months ago, in response to a report showing that Northern State University has a lot of underused classrooms and dorms, I suggested that…
Republicans can’t figure out where they stand on federal environmental regulation. On the one hand, they’ve screamed for years that the Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t…
The Environmental Working Group reports that since Trump began writing checks to make farmers forget about the harm his tariffs have done to them and…
72% of South Dakota farms have taken farm subsidy checks over the last 25 years. The biggest farm welfare payouts have gone to my Brown…