Senator Stace Nelson will probably try telling us this impact isn’t happening either…. As occupant of the White House, Donald Trump is lazy, ignorant, and…
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Every January 1 (or darn close!), I take a moment to look ahead to stories I’d like to report during the New Year. I don’t…
Who wants to read party press releases all year? Not you, dear readers! You come to Dakota Free Press in search of intelligent analysis and…
103 Dakota Free Press posts got a thousand views or more in 2018. Interestingly, three of those most frequently viewed posts were from 2017: Post…
Dakota Free Press fielded 29,099 comments from 698 distinct commenters in 2018. Who talked the most? 52 individuals, including myself, commented at least once a…
With the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight, the closest to the final bell since 1953, when the Soviets lit their first fusion-based bomb‚…
Who are South Dakota’s biggest employers? Hospitals, government, and grocers: One out of five of your neighbors works for one of our three big hospital…
Here’s another sign of that stagnant economy Kristi Noem with which she says Governor Dennis Daugaard is sandbagging her. The statistical section at the back…
Sales tax provides by far the single biggest chunk of South Dakota’s general fund revenues. In Fiscal Year 2018, the 4.5% we pay on our…
The Comprehensive Annual Finance Report for Fiscal Year 2018 reports that we spent over $119 million to cover all of our state employees’ health care…