South Dakota’s regressive politics have cost us a shot at hosting the national Botany Conference. In an e-mail to at least one member of the…
Dakota Free Press Posts
The Governor’s Office hasn’t had one of Kristi Noem’s children’s friends send me any nastygrams yet, but the Governor’s agriculture people seem a bit sensitive…
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. After a less-than-successful home-based petition drive in 2017, Spearfish ballot question sponsor John Dale has taken…
My friend and newshound Dave Baumeister is circulating an editorial column called Nobody Asked Me. In his most recent column, Baumeister rebuts Rep. Jon Hansen’s assertion…
Bart Pfankuch’s lengthy multi-part exposé of child abuse at the Aurora Plains Academy in Plankinton is making serious waves, drawing from Governor Noem promises to…
Dennis Daugaard and Russ Olson were all smiles and giggles in January when Tru Shrimp finagled South Dakota into offering them a bigger corporate welfare package…
Speaking of toxic waste, Prairie Village suffered a newsworthy noxious spill weekend before last as ne’er-do-wells knocked over seven porta-potties: On Sunday morning, Prairie Village…
Is Governor Kristi Noem’s abandonment of the traditional Governor’s Hunt in the greater Pierre area in favor of another big expo and concert in Sioux Falls…
The latest USDA crop progress report confirms what a drive past a lot of brown fields along I-29 will tell you: a lot of farmers are…
SDGOP Chairman Dan Lederman, District 25 Representative Jon Hansen, and Governor Kristi Noem are keen on demonizing out-of-staters who, in their view, disrupt South Dakota’s…