Tucked into Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken’s 545.3-million-dollar budget is $124,000 to create a new “chief culture officer.” Conservative cranks might worry that’s some new…
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Lori Walsh let Speaker Steven Haugaard clutter the airwaves with his anti-child, anti-education, anti-woman, anti-family, anti-worker hyperbole against public preschool without much challenge yesterday. Speaker…
I’ve suggested that the proper response to the South Dakota Democratic Party’s insolvency is to form a new opposition party, an active, inclusive organization which…
Brookings County is offering tax breaks to folks who actually need it: flood victims! Due to extensive flooding countywide, the Brookings County Director of Equalization…
Bob Mercer follows up and gets the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to tell us why the state rejected Triple H Wind Farm’s request for…
It looks like I’ll see the Attorney General’s people in court again this year. In the “Report of Rule 26(f) Meeting” filed last week in…
When Aberdeen has finally resolved Mayor Schaunaman’s conflict-of-interest scandal and the Chamber of Commerce reopens bids for updating our city branding, perhaps they can take…
We can’t even beat Minnesota at fat. MinnPost reports that Minnesota has tied South Dakota with its rising obesity rate: Minnesota’s adult obesity rate is…
Attorney and city councilman Rob Ronayne rebuts three key points that local Republicans have been using to distract from rookie Mayor Travis Schaunaman’s blatant conflict…
The Aberdeen American News agrees that South Dakota Cattlemen’s chief Steve Ollerich erred in calling for violence against transgender South Dakotans in his September/October column…