Funny that the SDGOP mouthpiece blog hasn’t yet run this e-mail from Senator Marion Michael Rounds weakly clapping for more welfare checks for farmers from…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Last November I mentioned Let My People Go, a nice little documentary video about the successful David-vs-Goliath initiative that South Dakotans passed to cap payday lending…
“I am, and always have been pro-life…. I believe every human life is sacred….” My foot. By refusing to support Medicaid expansion, Governor Kristi Noem…
On May 15 the Governor’s Office of Economic Development hosted a webinar on its new CAFO-county bribe program. GOED appears not to have YouTubalized that…
Elect a Republican, get higher taxes. Just like Trump, Paul TenHaken campaigned as a conservative, but now that he’s in charge of Sioux Falls, TenHaken’s…
…or maybe we’re having trouble finding teen workers because we’re arresting so many kids for drug offenses: A new study shows that South Dakota leads the…
Anti-labor, anti-youth Republicans David and Al Novstrup resisted raising South Dakota’s minimum wage on the ridiculous argument that cutting wages gives young workers more opportunities.…
Ah, the circle of LIFE…. The Keystone XL pipeline will increase the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. Climate change is bringing more intense…
I am a liberal Democrat. Bob Newland is a dedicated Libertarian. We thus disagree on many issues. Yet Newland and I agree on the value…
Where two Aberdeen municipal candidates’ opposition to tree-planting requirements shows a short-sighted disdain for aesthetics and environmental science, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan for a…