The new USDA 2017 Census of Agriculture offers one sad statistic of overarching importance for South Dakota: for the first time since statehood, the number…
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Predictably, wealth continues to trickle up to the Trump class. According to the Federal Reserve (which, predictably, Trump keeps slamming for dealing in facts rather…
What do I get when I blog about hazardous radio towers and a mostly ignored mayoral contest? A guest column from eager reader Wade Brandis,…
South Dakota is part of a nationwide shortage of people who want to be cops: The Sioux Falls Police Department received 634 applications for open officer…
Behind its paywall, my local paper oddly opines that there are correct and incorrect attitudes about the demise of horseracing in South Dakota: Fort Pierre…
Point of personal privilege: Star Wars is awesome! I don’t geek out often on these humble electronic pages… although I suppose one could argue that we who…
When they aren’t broadcasting their national Trumpist propaganda for most of the day, KELO Radio does put out some useful news. In this report on…
William Joseph “B.J.” Olson grew up not knowing who his dad was (even though his mom says there were only two possible men, but a…
While chatting about all the Help America Vote Act funds that South Dakota has been slow to spend to help South Dakotans vote, Bob Mercer…
Our shadowy wind power opponents tried dashing their Quixotic lances into the expansion of renewable energy in South Dakota with House Bill 1226, a failed…