Billie Sutton’s big cowboy supper and campaign fundraiser in Eagle Butte last night was free and open to the public. The Sutton gubernatorial campaign invited…
Dakota Free Press Posts
An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t the only state where employers and policymakers are capable of ignoring the obvious. Employers nationwide are responding to 3.9% unemployment by trying…
My Roslyn neighbor Lawrence Diggs is a deep thinker, but he’s no magical thinker. In his column in today’s Aberdeen American News, he mocks the “magical…
The online sales tax South Dakota can collect now from Amazon and other remote online vendors is already boosting local revenue projections. But don’t think…
Senator Ryan Maher (R-28/Isabel) told The Economist last February that his colleague and fellow cowboy Senator Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke) would give Republicans “the biggest challenge they’ve…
Regular reader Donald Pay suspects that the anti-Muslim hate rallies staged in Aberdeen and elsewhere in South Dakota by out-of-state speakers and mostly unknown funders may…
Eleven years ago, I had the pleasure of live-blogging Miracle Treat Day at the Madison Dairy Queen. On Miracle Treat Day 2018, Randy Seiler tries…
A little Butina for breakfast: funky cash flows reported by Buzzfeed show that accused Russian spy Maria Butina was up to far more than grad…