Rep. Mike Stevens (R-18/Yankton) told the Yankton school board last night that the 2018 Legislature may consider 150 more bills than last year. That would…
Dakota Free Press Posts
British journalist Anna Jones spent a year traveling the world on a Nuffield Scholarship to explore how largely urban populations and media have become disconnected from farmers.…
The Animal Industry Board spent 90 minutes discussing the ban on video auctions of livestock in South Dakota. (I didn’t even know we had such…
Feedlot fanatic Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) continues to press his one-track vision of rural economic development by threatening to take away state aid to…
Oh, but enough about taxes and politics. Let’s have a happy Christmas story, about Freeman natives and high school sweethearts John and Donna Beier growing…
Last month the SDGOP spin blog huffed and puffed about Rep. Susan Wismer’s characterization of Congresswoman Kristi Noem’s tired old “estate tax nearly took my…
An eager labor-minded reader forwards me this interview with author Malcolm Harris, who says the shift of job training to public education has shifted costs…
Rapid City blogger and columnist John Tsitrian does a good job of taking apart Governor Dennis Daugaard’s rebuttal to Tsitrian’s diagnosis of South Dakota’s anemic…
Iowa Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix wants to eliminate Iowa’s corporate and indivisual income taxes. The Des Moines Register raps that proposal by pointing to South Dakota:…
Meet the press Thursday as the Sioux Falls League of Women Voters hosts political reporter Dana Ferguson for lunch! The SF LWV will host Ferguson…