While Governor Kristi Noem feels the need to lock herself up behind a fence, the state is locking fewer people up in its prisons. The…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed and the Legislature created the State Board of Internal Control in 2016 to better monitor how state agencies use federal grants.…
Dr. David Newquist offers the fascinating thesis that Soviet agriculture failed not because of communism but because of the consolidation of farms under a science-denying…
Brain drain? What about bear drain? The bear that came over from Minnesota to check out Wilmot appears to have decided South Dakota isn’t for…
I heard Washington Governor and Presidential candidate Jay Inslee speak intelligently Friday morning on NPR about his broad and sensible environmental vision. Intelligent speech alone…
What do Dakota Free Press and Microsoft have in common? We’re both on the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce website! Microsoft is enjoying the spotlight…
The Brookings School District has publicly apologized to new graduate Miles Livermont for illegally seizing the eagle feather he wore to graduation last Sunday: A…
So Donald Trump rips up the North American Free Trade Agreement, then agrees to a rebranded U.S.–Mexico–Canada trade deal that consists of little new or…
KELO Radio spotlights a report from Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Economic Development bragging up Minnesota’s 1.5% Quarter 1 growth in exports compared to Q1…
One more thread of South Dakota’s tawdry EB-5 story has reached an uninformative end, as the Tentexkota wheeler-dealers behind the Deadwood Mountain Grand casino and…