Russian gun rights campaigner and accused Russian agent Maria Butina spent her thirtieth birthday in jail this month. She may be negotiating with prosecutors to…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Back in July, Brookings writer Phyllis Cole-Dai offered me an early copy of her new historical novel, Beneath the Same Stars, if I would just write…
Northern State University isn’t putting much faith in our legislators’ “relationships” to get the funding it needs to finish its building projects. With construction costs…
Not satisfied with the tax increment financing it got to incentivize a plant expansion that was already underway, Canadian cheese maker Agropur continues to try…
If you want to run for Democratic Party chair, you’re going to have to miss a crackerbarrel, not to mention a couple good debate tournaments…
When Airbnb agreed last year to pay South Dakota taxes, I guesstimated they’d add $200,000 to our public coffers. With my usual conservatism, I was…
Wages are up down on the farm! New stats from USDA show hired hands in the Northern Plains Region (ND, SD, NE, KS) made 7%…
Once again, Donald Trump reduces the consumption of South Dakota agricultural products: Two tom turkeys, plucked from among the masses at Riverside Colony north of…
Article 8 Section 1 of the South Dakota Constitution explains our founders’ commitment to public education: Uniform system of free public schools. The stability of a republican…
In 2016, thanks to the all-too-briefly enacted Initiated Measure 22, we had two gubernatorial candidates declare less than two weeks after the election. Dusty Johnson…