Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
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The local xenophobes club is bringing another anti-Islam rant session to Aberdeen tonight. The session with Clare Lopez will do nothing to advance Aberdeen’s economy or culture.…
In his dubious and futile attempt to restore coal mining jobs (which declined far more precipitously under Reagan/Bush than they did under Obama), Donald Trump also seeks less…
Dakota Free Press Podcast Episode #5 is up and ready for your earbuds! This week, Spencer Dobson and I talk March for Science, pine beetles, online…
An eager reader notices Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-12/Sioux Falls) hypocrisy on funding state functions with unhealthy habits. Speaker Mickelson says there’s no way he’ll support…
The Aberdeen American News interviews local legislators— —oops! Wrong headline… Today’s front-pager has area Republicans signaling they want to revisit campaign finance, an issue on which they ran…
In February, Iowa passed a new law limiting the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees. AFSCME, which represents public employees, sued right away; now the Iowa teachers’ union…
In ongoing signs that the Trump Administration does know how to talk about, let alone solve, pressing global problems, Donald Trump babbles about North Korea…
U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is showing his racist stripes. Under the familiar guise of “local control” (read: states’ rights), the U.S. Attorney General yesterday ordered…
NPR’s social science feature on today’s Morning Edition discussed research showing that people who practice a ritual, even newly learned, seemingly meaningless ritual, show more trust for people who perform…