If we can’t get the Noem/McCaulley Administration to relieve students of their debt with free college (because we by no means should act like Bernie…
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The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Carpenter v. Murphy, in which a Native American on Oklahoma’s death row contends that he was convicted…
Governing has named Former Denver city and county elections director Amber McReynolds one of its 2018 Public Officials of the Year for her efforts to…
What grabbed my attention most about NPR’s post-Turkey Day coverage of the federal government’s new climate change warning was that public radio featured real scientists…
Sioux Falls lawyer Taneeza Islam tells me there are over 300 immigrant children from Central America living in South Dakota without their parents to care…
The only person admitting guilt for anything in the GEAR UP scandal gets no substantial punishment and praise for his excellent public service. Former Mid-Central…
Wait a minute—co-executive directors of the Democratic Party? In 1992, the South Dakota Democratic Party evidently had co-execs. Steering the party with Erpenbach was his…
A slightly more fun political item from the Herb Jones history file comes from the October 6, 1992, Huron Plainsman, which reports on page 5…
In a signal of bad-old-boy opacity, Governor-Elect Kristi Noem yesterday named railroad exec and longtime South Dakota Republican Party establishment figure Herb Jones to be her…
More guns also won’t stop more farms from going bankrupt: Eighty-four farms filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and…