Thursday morning’s Aberdeen paper ran Megan Raposa’s November 28 report on home-schooling. I found the report interesting in its concerted effort to de-emphasize the role of…
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The folks who tried to place medical cannabis on this year’s ballot are gearing up for a petition drive to put two measures to a vote in…
We would like to blame Mr. Sveen, but we’re not going to do that. —Reed Rasmussen, attorney for the defense, saying the second-most interesting thing…
The Sioux Falls media are giving their local business leaders all sorts of boosterist press this week. One main story is the building boom on…
Schadenfreude! KDLT’s Anndrea Anderson jumps on the news that Badlands Pawn has laid off a dozen employees as a sign of doom for Brennan’s last foothold in South Dakota:…
In Aberdeen, meth is a family affair. Last April, we busted brothers James and George Schriver for keeping pot and meth (not to mention a…
Judge John Pekas just sent McKennan Park homeowners Joseph and Sarah Sapienza a big home renovation project: he ruled this morning that they have to rebuild or move their…
An eager reader shares filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest post on how to resist tyranny. Moore recommends five specific actions: “Make your presence known” by telling…
When I recommend reforming South Dakota’s tax system by replacing our regressive sales and property taxes with a progressive income tax, Republicans go ape with…
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones nicely defends the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from Fox News’s latest poorly sourced and exaggerated attack on our efforts to help our neighbors eat. The…