My friends at the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry have sent out a preview of circulating and pending ballot measures to their members…
Dakota Free Press Posts
John L. Johnson had a reasonably good idea: build a museum in Rapid City to memorialize Medal of Honor recipients. Alas, he sunk it with…
Kristi Noem campaigned hamely on openness. Now that she occupies the Governor’s mansion, she wants closedness. Todd Epp finds that Governor Noem wants to spend…
I love Brookings because it is usually much smarter than this: A Brookings student was not allowed to wear an eagle feather to honor his…
NPR reports that foreign investors have doubled the amount of American farmland they own in this century: When the stock market tanked during the last…
South Dakota’s Department of Agriculture very sensibly set June 30 as the last day farmers can apply drift-prone dicamba herbicide. Senator Justin Cronin (R-23/Gettysburg) is…
Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has managed to stumble on one good idea while twiddling his thumbs behind his oversized desk in Pierre. Like Bernie Sanders,…
Just a week after the Governor’s Office of Economic Development kicked off its new CAFO bribe campaign, Hamlin County has said no thanks and nixed…
South Dakota’s self-anointed Sportsman-in-Chief, Governor Kristi Noem, had better add deer and elk to her endangered money-making species list. The discovery of chronic wasting disease…